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

Nothing happened and nothing changed - Codex by Lev Grossman

Sell crazy somewhere else, we’re all stocked up here. (CBR12Bingo: Happy) - Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly

Hate at first sight #Adaptation - Dune by Frank Herbert

It might just be my mood, but this was meh - Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

A swing and a miss from Oprah. - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Things Are Better Now - The Seep by Chana Porter

I don’t know how these characters had friends - To Have and To Hoax by Martha Waters

CBR12 Book Bingo – Fresh Start - Still Life by Louise Penny

Sometimes Your Shallowness is So Thorough, It’s Almost Like Depth (CBR12Bingo: Book Club) - Choose Wonder Over Worry by Amber Rae

From the depths of hell, I stab at thee! (CBR12Bingo: White Whale) - The Second City: Backstage at the world's greatest comedy theater by Sheldon Patinkin

Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northen Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy. - The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Doesn’t live up to the title’s promise - The Worst Street in London by Fiona Rule

Strindberg mansplains it all - Miss Julie by August Strindberg

Please Send Help - The Next to Die by Sophie Hannah

Please do not read if you are a fan of Eloise - Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown Ups by Kay Thompson

If Only I Could Be Happy - The Darkness (The Hulda Series Book 1) by Ragnar Jónasson

See you yesterday Lizzie - Doctor Who:  The Runaway Tardis by Kim Smith

I hated it so much - Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag

Everything Is Flawed (It’s Humanity’s Fault) - Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang

#NotMyDarcy - The Wrong Mr. Darcy by Evelyn Lozada, Holly Lörincz

Never Have I Ever been so offended - Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson

Literary Roadkill - Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing to Care About - Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

Danger Lurks Beneath the Surface - Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis

How Did This Get Published? WHY Did This Get Published? - Technically, You Started It by Lana Wood Johnson

What a colossal disappointment. - Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote

How to Write a Novel, Or Not - Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style by Suzanne McConnell, Kurt Vonnegut

It ends at the beginning but doesn’t add up - Season of Storms: A Novel of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski

Literary Versed - Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer

And another thing, I couldn’t even finish this book - And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer

Theme is: Books I am not a fan of - Bonnie & Ben Rhyme Again by Mem Fox; Cuddle Monkey by Blake Lilane Hellman

Lov Bensley trudged homeward… - Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

This book almost killed me. Literally. - Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman

No ifs, ands or butts (new or old) this is not for everyone - I need a NEW BUTT by Dawn McMillan

Sugar, we’re going down - Sweetness #9 by Stephan Eirik Clark

So many trigger warnings - Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks

Your mileage may vary - The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray

And Hell Followed - The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

I rather not, but thanks all the same - I Hate Reading: How to Read When You’d Rather Not by Beth Bacon

Please Stop Profiting Off Black Women’s Ideas - Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women's Voices by Katherine Alford, Kathy Gunst

How to take a beloved fantasy story and ruin it - Elric Volume 3 The White Wolf by Michael Moorcock

Wait a Minute, Haven’t I Seen This Before? - HeartSick by Chelsea Cain

Unfortunately this Imaginary Friend just wouldn’t go away - Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

When a lizard appears - The Lizard by Jose Saramago

Sure didn’t love it - Machines of Loving Grace by John Markoff

Hate reading my way into 2020 - Ask the Dust by John Fante

I hated, hated, hated this book - Magic and Loss by Virginia Heffernan

The Secret Commonwealth Broods and Meanders and Dabbles in Casual White Supremacy - The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pullman

Next time, I’ll just read The Stand again. - Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

The end of the world has arrived. Finally. - The Core (Demon Cycle #5) by Peter V Brett

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