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

The Last Flight- A bit flighty but fun (horrible pun but I’m standing by it) - The Last Flight by Julie Clark

“The Spontaneous Anthropomorphic Event had taken place before I was born, so rabbits talking, wearing summer dresses or driving cars never seemed that unusual to me.” - The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

Q&A With Dolly Parton - Dolly on Dolly Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton by Randy L. Schmidt

Scratchy Dreams - The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

“Some people never get to do all we got to do” - Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

I do love to bake but with this book I’m not so sure - The Great British Baking Show Love to Bake by Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, the Bakers

A- for general story, B for narration and characterization, overall entertaining fluff - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 4 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

It’s the little things… - Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness by Bill Bailey

Interesting Interweaving of Stories - All This Life by Joshua Mohr

Men wanted his opinion on any number of topics. Women swooned at his feet - The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

Two Gaimans with Pictures - Pirate Stew by Neil Gaiman (author), Chris Riddell (illustrator); A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (author), Rafael Albuquerque (author, illustrator), Rafael Scavone (author), Dave Stewart (illustrator)

A loose screw, or screwing ghosts, who’s to say? - The Turn of The Screw by Henry James

Disappointing, but probably not its fault - The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous

The Mysterious Mr Quin – Agatha Christie (1930) - The Mysterious Mr Quin by Agatha Christie

The Fifth Head of Cerberus – Gene Wolfe (1972) - The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe

The Secret History Meets Never Let Me Go… - Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

In Which I Catch Up On My New Year’s Backlog of Reviews Pt. 3 - To Tell You the Truth by Gilly MacMillan

Tawdry domestic thrillers are my popcorn - When I Was You by Amber Garza

My first review *GULP* - Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

I have no shelf control, so luckily I have a bookstore and library I can buy/borrow from books like this - Anti/Hero by Kate Karyus Quinn

Santa is a Swindler - The Santa Claus Man by Alex Palmer

Hilo and friends are repeat business! - Hilo V03 The Great Big Boom by Judd Winick

66 Going on 19 Forever - Bloodline by Claudia Gray

Classic space opera with sexy times - Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik

So that what happens to game designers when they retire? - Billy and the Beast by Eli Easton

Chaotic, Cruel Fairy Stories - Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

The Dragonblood Saga - Dragonsoul by Justin DePaoli; Dragonspawn by Justin DePaoli; Dragonborn by Justin DePaoli

Man in Darkness - Diary of a Murderer: And Other Stories by Young-ha Kim

A world-building amuse-bouche - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Interesting Historical Fiction - The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

Feels how the cover looks - Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

Rhino Ranch – Larry McMurtry (2009) - Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry

monologuing at the mouth of madness - The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'Donnell

Death takes a holiday - Mort: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

I’ve upped my nerd cred. - Star Wars: A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller

Where the art and epilogue are the most interesting but there’s also a “Zebracorn Lovebeam!” - Lumberjanes True Colors by Lilah Sturges, Polterlink

A good entry point, but less good continuation - The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

I still miss you, Space Mom - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

The Non-Academic Version of this Book Could Be Great - Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper

There are serious criticisms about this book, and your mileage may vary – but I found it worthwhile, if not necessarily convincing - How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi

Doing It For the Death Style Points - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Messy…And Then There’s a Stalker - Forgiven by Garrett Leigh

Sleepy? Who Me? - Let’s Get Sleepy! by Tony Cliff

A little for me and a little for you - A Little Space for Me by Jennifer Gray Olson

Fun but ultimately forgettable - Kingsbane (Empirium #2) by Claire Legrand

The cook and the case of the missing children - Murder in the East End by Jennifer Ashley

It might be a bad sign when your imaginary friends are mad at you…. - The Crankypants Tea Party by Barbara Bottner

It’s money management advice that thinks it might be something else - Spenditude by Paul Gordon & Janine Robertson

The Book That Didn’t (The Duke Who Didn’t, Courtney Milan) - The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan

Rambling but charming cozy - Manna From Hades by Carola Dunn

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