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

An Impenetrable Cloud Was Lifted - Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M. M. Blume

Tales from the Bottom of a Winter Coat Pocket - Tales from the Folly by Ben Aaronovitch; The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch; The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch

Some big hits and major misses in an overall forgettable collection - Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane by Jonathan Oliver

Sweet but not sickly so - Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

Another solid work from Charlie N Holmberg - Spellbreaker by Charlie N. Holmberg

Two powerhouses of speculative fiction do not necessarily equal a great story. - The Original by Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal

Names, family and two neat books - Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow; The Gifts of Being Grand: For Grandparents Everywhere by Marianne Richmond

Small poetry book; big punch - Crown Nobel by Bianca Phipps

“Lightning-struck until your heart’s split open, but you never stop reaching for something more. - Just Like This by Cole McCade

“There is a pay phone by a truck stop near the town of Leonard, Arizona. Sometimes at night it starts to ring.” - Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel

Not all rainbows in these celebrity memoirs - We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union; Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair) by Rosie Perez

It turns out that sometimes having a background in English literature pays off - The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

All nights should be so dark, all winters so warm, all headlights so dazzling. - Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

“It is very important to approach all unpleasant tasks in life as a performance art piece, especially if you are a teenager.” - Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country & Other Stories by Chavisa Woods

3/4 of a Good Book (Belated Bingo – Yellow) - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Beautiful Wandering Writing - The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts

Oh Murderbot, why did it take me so long to heed your call? - All Systems Red by Martha Wells

All you’re getting from me this year is a half Cannonball, so it may as well be for a Magary book. - Point B by Drew Magary

Frustrating. - No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

The Secret to Chess is the Secret to Life - All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything by Sasha Chapin

The Magic is Gone. Now What? - The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold

Nazis? I Hate Those Guys - The Book of Lamps & Banners by Elizabeth Hand

Too many ingredients - The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood

Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition. - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

“I’ve seen Steelheart bleed.” - Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

A Walk To Adventure - Timo the Adventurer by Jonathan Garnier

“I actually look for things to smile about.” ~ Dr. Ruth - Roller Coaster Grandma: The Amazing Story of Dr. Ruth by Dr. Ruth Westheimer

I kinda wanna try faerie fruit - Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Actions v Words - Press Play by Ash Dylan

Take a look, it’s in a book (or five) - My America by Karen Katz; Sheep Dog and Sheep Sheep: Baaad Hair Day by Eric Barclay; One More Hug by Megan Alexander; Roly Poly by Mem Fox; The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig

Spunk is the name of the game! - Julia’s House Moves On by Ben Hatke; Oona by Kelly DiPucchio

Two different books creating feelings - I'll Be the Water: A Story of a Grandparent's Love by Alec Aspinwall; Crying is Like the Rain: A Story of Mindfulness and Feelings by Heather Feinberg

Celtic Chiaroscuro - The Grey King by Susan Cooper; Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper

A Peculiar Collection of Stories Both Surreal and Distinctly Human - What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

Dysfunction Junction - Sisters: A Novel by Daisy Johnson

Another faerie murder mystery for October Daye - A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

Music and dragons - Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

She apes Julia Child in her title, but this is a memoir, not a cookbook. #CBRBingo – How To - Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen

“I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.” - Just Kids by Patti Smith

White whale for a blackout (cbr12bingo 2: white whale) - Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Dracula sucks…but the book doesn’t! - Dracula by Bram Stoker

Don’t know your ABCs? That’s okay! You can still create a poem - Emily Writes: Emily Dickinson and Her Poetic Beginnings by Jane Yolen

Impractical knowledge is still knowledge! - How To by Randall Monroe

Two sets of friends for two new early readers - Do You Like My Bike (Hello, Hedgehog #1)? by Norm Feuti; Bunbun & Bonbon: Fancy Friends, by Jess Keating

the Sanderson sisters are still my favorite witchy siblings, but the Owens family are not messing around! - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Not so pretty on the inside - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

News from back then - Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Over and over and over and over… - Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

The last Jonathan Safran Foer book I will ever read. #CBRBingo – Nostalgia - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

We can’t have change without loss - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

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