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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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3 Star Reviews

Witch Hunt! - Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

My Last Review for 2021 - Going Dark: The Secrete Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner

Cookies for a cause: the best kind - Smash the Pastry-archy by Planned Parenthood

More Cookbooks I’ve Been Perusing - Nadiya’s Kitchen: Over 100 Simple, Delicious Family Recipes by Nadiya Hussain; Easy Gourmet: Awesome Recipes Anyone Can Cook by Stephanie Le

Rocky the Owl - The Christmas Owl: Based on the True Story of a Little Owl Named Rockefeller by Gideon Sterer

“Steve, I’ve been duped!” or, my experience reading Comfort Me With Apples *SPOILERS* - Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

Bring Out Yer Dead! - Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

Liar Liar Tri-corner hat on fire - Why Longfellow Lied: The Truth about Paul Revere's Midnight Ride by Jeff Lantos

Another hate-to-love Romance - Love at First by Kate Clayborn

Expect the Unexpected with the Manga Cookbook - Manga Cookbook by Annonymus

The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters - The Road through the Wall by Shirley Jackson; Selected Prose of TS Eliot by TS Eliot; The Burden of Southern History by C Vann Woodward

If you like lots of angst in your YA and stories about teenagers being assholes and doing stupid things, you will like this more than I did. - May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor

I know it says three stars but I actually did like it!!! - The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

“These are my people, the crazy dreamers who decide they want to live their life off the beaten path.” - Happy Trail by Daisy Prescott

The Superheroine duo is now the foreshadowed Heroine Trio! - Heroine's Journey by Sarah Kuhn; Haunted Heroine by Sarah Kuhn

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. - Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women by Paula Guran, editor

I will defend Dana Scully with my last breath. - 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow

I have finished The Witcher! - Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0.6) by Andrzej Sapkowski

Dragons of the Hourglass Mage – Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (2009) - Dragons of the Hourglass Mage by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Sisters might point things out that others are too polite to mention, but I wanna point out some good books - What Are Sisters For? by Anya Glazer; How to Hug a Pufferfish by Ellie Peterson

Do you wanna catch a killer with me? - Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham

Need to feel good? Grab a book or four - Chirp!: Chipmunk Sings for a Friend by Jamie A. Swenson; Sunny-Side Up by Jacky Davis; We Are Better Together by Bill McKibben; Let’s Do Everything and Nothing by Julia Kuo

For those who question and have big feelings - Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty; Meesha Makes Friends by Tom Percival

another gripe: for an advice columnist, our protagonist is really clueless - Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

MANY content warnings but a beautiful depiction of the author’s hometown and culture - Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Likable and entertaining - Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

Lavender Blue - The Long Lavender Look by John D. Macdonald

Let’s Get Silly! - Archie: Volume One by Fiona Staples et. al.

A Modern Encyclopedia Brown - All the Wrong Questions: Question 1 by Lemony Snicket

What the Smuck? - Lisey's Story by Stephen King; 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Another uneven entry to The Circle Opens - Cold Fire by Tamora Pierce

The nature of witches is to be self aware without follow through, apparently - The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin

Which is scarier, a blizzard catching you unprepared or driving through it with five strangers? - Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards

interesting book that was endlessly distracting because of one smallll thing… - The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage by Drew Magary

I always feel so bad not liking these more! - All the Feels by Olivia Dade

finally felt like getting back into some fanfic! - A path to broken stars by stellardarlings

Such a forgettable book unfortunately–for once, didn’t care about the romance in a romance novel! - Bombshell by Sarah MacLean

“You still being petty about that boy?” Jeremiah asked. In my mind I could see my panties flying on the flagpole where Ben had put them for everyone in the high school to see them. Vaguely, I remembered the sensation of my chair being pulled out from under me in kindergarten, too. “He started it.” “Yeah, but y’all are both adults now.” - Much Ado About Barbeque by Sally Kilpatrick

Pandemics Call for Comfort Food, Obviously - Modern Comfort Food: a Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten

“The Resistance was the kiss of death, to friends and allies alike.” - Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse

A Rather Odd Little Collection - Collected Short Mysteries by Ngaio Marsh

I’ll read anything to get some of the magic of The Toast back T-T - Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails by Michelle Markowitz, Caroline Moss

Hilarious but uneven! - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

You’ll be smarter than a cookie - The Smart Cookie (Food Group) by Jory John

Hello from the other side - Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon

Sometimes a short story is just enough, but sometimes it leaves you wanting. CBR13 Reviews 7-9 - The Prince and the Troll by Rainbow Rowell ; The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman; If the Fates Allow by Rainbow Rowell

Mystery at the Zoo with lots of fun new friends - Mysteries on Zoo Lane V01 Meet the Crew at the Zoo by Patricia Reilly Giff; Mysteries on Zoo Lane V02 Animal at Large by Patricia Reilly Giff; Mysteries on Zoo Lane V03 Zebra at the Zoo by Patricia Reilly Giff

If you have background these graphic novels rock - Suki, Alone (Avatar: The Last Airbender) by Faith Erin Hicks; Ms. Marvel: Stretched Thing (Original Graphic Novel) by Nadia Shammas

A list of books are fun titles - Click V02 Camp by Kayla Miller; One Wish: Fatima Al-Fihri and the World’s Oldest University by M.O. Yuksel; Invasion of the Unicorns by David Biedrzycki; The Last Straw by Zoe Matthiessen

“What you see before you is a big ball of confusion.” - Meet Me in Madrid by Verity Lowell

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