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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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I usually hate writing reviews about books I didn’t enjoy: This one made me mad enough that it was kind of fun.

April 13, 2016 by NTE 15 Comments

A few weeks ago, I wrote this tweet: I wrote that note to myself less than 50 pages into the book The Diabetic and The Dietitian by Dr. Ellen Albertson and Michael Albertson. And then I repeated the sentiment approximately every other page of the book I managed to read over the course of the last three weeks. The book actually isn’t very long, and would, in the normal course of things, take me less than a few hours to read. But that did not […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: but no don't read this, rage-read

NTE's CBR8 Review No:13 · Genres: Health · Tags: but no don't read this, rage-read ·
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