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

What Happens When The American Dream Eludes Immigrants - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

“Sometimes people have to be allowed to have something to live for in order to survive everything else.” - Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

You never conjure where you carve….whoops! Wrong Brave…. - Berrybrook Middle School Book Two Brave by Svetlana Chmakova

I love cheesy 90s YA horror - The Boxes by William Sleator

Such a good book, giving me comfort in the (literal) dark times - Pretty Face by Lucy Parker

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. - A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

All my life I had to fight - The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Not so Bloody Fair - One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton

I liked it, but I didn’t love it. Carrying purse snacks is an excellent idea, though - The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

The Interdependency - The Collapsing Empire & The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

Better than the Potter comparison - Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

A Very Pajiba Debut - Killed It by Lulu Smith

Space Western - The Last Colony by John Scalzi

#CBR10Bingo: Award Winner – Malin reads another book she’s owned for many years (Bingo #8) - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)

I like the Journalist Character Best - Rupture by Ragnar Jónasson

Will East Texas ever change? - Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Welcome to the Neighborhood - Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell

#CBR10Bingo: Home, Something, Home (double Bingo!) - Tante Ulrikkes vei by Zeshan Shakar

If anyone tries the recipe at the end, I would love to know how it comes out! - Little Red Ruthie: A Hanukkah Tale by Gloria Koster

The Protagonist is an Ass, But the Book is Great - Blackout by Ragnar Jónasson

I just could not stop reading this hockey romance series (almost) - Hard Hitter by Sarina Bowen

More romance, more hockey - Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen

A romance and a professional hockey team: some of my favorite things - Brooklynaire by Sarina Bowen

Blooming good read - Bloom by Savanna Ganucheau and Kevin Panetta

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. - The Alexandria Quartet; Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea by Lawrence Durrell

Worth A Try - Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

Very sweet “friends to lovers” romance - Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren

Great Idea – Just Wish the Pictures Were in Color CBR10BINGO - Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Corners by Travis Elborough and Alan Horsfield

Just Enjoy The Ride - Dancing Bear by James Crumley

Romancing on DWTS - Dance With Me by Alexis Daria

Not exactly as advertised - The Liar's Club by Mary Karr

A dream deferred might dry up like a raisin in the sun - A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Be careful what you wish for… - The Stepsister's Tale by Tracy Barrett

Eddie Izzard is Just as Delightful in Text - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard

The soccer ball quit the team. It was tied of being kicked around. - The Breakaways: Bad at Soccer Okay at Friends by Cathy G. Johnson

CBR Bingo:This is the End (and the end of my bingo card) - To All The Boys I've Loved Before (Books 1 thru 3) by Jenny Han

CBR Bingo (8 and 9) This Old Thing - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sea Section seems like a perfectly reasonable name for a beach house. - Calypso by David Sedaris

You know what sucks? Not this! - Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan O'Malley

The Movie Was Better - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

An Unflinching Portrayal of Cycles of Trauma, But Not Without the Hope of Healing - The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings

A Graceful Exit from the Treadmill - Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

Some family reunions just ain’t worth the trouble - The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire

Murderous Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald

“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and frightened and weak is amazing.” #CBRBingo (BINGO!) - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

May We Be the Fortunate Ones (Bingo #6 & 7) - Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (author), Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)

The Review and the Review - The City and the City by China Miéville

Beauty, Sex, Drugs, and Scandal - The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

…but you can’t pick your family. - The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly

This is How You Use a Novella to Transition a Series! - Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews

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