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

Serial Bad Writing - The Killer Book of Serial Killers by Tom Philbin and Michael Philbin

Such highs and lows in my reading this year - Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

Confess your literary sin - I'd Rather be Reading by Anne Bogel

Life is Hard: A Sermon (with a soupçon of Fix-My-Husband) - I'm Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagán

Thank you, next. - Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

Drug Trip or Wacky Plot….Who Can Say? - Remedia: A Picaresque by Micahel Joyce

Epic Rant–Spoilers - Buried Prey by John Sandford

Not a Great Retelling of Alice - Ever Alice by H.J. Ramsay

A book so bad you quote a line from How the Grinch Stole Christmas! cartoon - I Love You Like a Pig by Mac Barnett

I read this to spare you all. You’re welcome. Unless you like bad paranormal romance. - Bitten by Kelly Armstrong

Hot Mess #19 - Wicked Prey by John Sandford

Writing 101: how to induce nausea, fits of rage and earth-shattering desperation in your audience - Fantasy in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

Apparently I Am All About the Grudges - The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth

Nope nope nope - Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers by Robert Schnakenberg

- How to Party with an Infant by Kaui Hart Hemmings

Sweet Lord, Being Single Is Better Than This…Zero Stars - The Perfect Date by Evelyn Lozada

telling over showing: the novel - The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Not a good follow up - Fellside by M. R. Carey

Breasting Boobily - Believe Me by JP Delaney

You’ll root for the missile - The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Wilson, Lauren Willig, Karen White

Semi-bird poop life is more like it - Semi-Charmed Life: A Novel by Nora Zelevansky

Not Worth the Price - The Wedding Shop on Wexley Street by Rachel Dove

No One Was Likable - Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller

eeeugh. gross in so many ways. - The Innocent by Ian McEwan

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing - The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder

Being from Paris means filing her nails to a point and lacquering them to Hemorrhage Red. - The Strange Case of Rachel K by Rachel Kushner

Guys, I tried SO HARD - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Don’t read this book! - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

DNF at 25 Percent- A Map of Days is Mind-Numbing - A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

Thriller Aspect Not Well Done - The Couple by Sarah Mitchell

A Thousand Nos - The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

Glass & Steele: A wasted idea - The Clockmaker's Daughter by C. J. Archer

He’s Running, but also, Let’s Fight!!! – aka I wrote 1000+ words because I hated it - The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben Sasse

I hope this isn’t how I’ll be going on. - Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

Hopefully, there’s nowhere to go but up! - Three Dates with Mr. Darcy by Elizabeth Ann West

recent research shows that communication/and thought are related, but in an odd way: - If I were a Suicide Bomber by Per Aage Brandt

No, you get off MY lawn - Television Is the New Television by Michael Wolff

Many self-loathing. Such love. Wow. - Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James

“There’s a resistance?” The word sounds sweet as I say it. “Honey, there’s always a resistance.” - Vox by Christina Dalcher

Hopefully this is not a sign of six more weeks of bad books - Brownie Groundhog and the Wintry Surprise by Susan Blackaby

Not starting the year off right - Ogre Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Marginal to bad advice wrapped in a “You can do it/Tough Love” package - Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

Well, I got to 52! - P.S. I love you by Cecilia Ahern

“It’s a brave new world, Mr. Portman, And we’ll be right behind you.” - A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #4) by Ransom Riggs

Emphasis on ill - Ill will by Dan chaon

A loose tooth and one heck of an imagination - Dory Fantasmagory: Head in the Clouds by Abby Hanlon

Rolling in with a late Cannonball on a hate read - Red Queen Series (#1-3) by Victoria Aveyard

(It’s a witty aside, do you see?) - Transcription by Kate Atkinson

Hold On To Your Hats, Turns Out I’m Mad - Adam by Ariel Scrag

My First Ever DNF featuring Paul, Mary, Mel, and Sue <3 - American on Purpose by Craig Fergusson

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