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

The Cover Screamed “ME!” But the Read Was Actually Very Frustrating and Not Me At All… - The Pisces by Melissa Broder

I’m waiting for the Baudelaires to meet the One Trick Pony (CBR12Bingo 2: No Money) - The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket

Wets, Drys, and Hypocrites - Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent

Rambling tale about three desperate women being saved by enigmatic men - The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton

A late 80s-romance novel helps me cross off another square (double bingo) - Viscount Vagabond by Loretta Chase

Everything Sucks - Nothing Personal by Jason Starr

You get five made up words per story, and ideally zero rapes. (CBR12Bingo2: Fresh start) - Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Old stories told today, sort of. - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Hemingway is jerk - A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Pearl Clutching - Rage by Bob Woodward

cbr12bingo – Green (and another Bingo!) - Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

A bit of a disappointment from a favourite author #BookClub - A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay

Paging Mary Sue. Paging Mary Sue to the Tarot Academy - Tarot Academy 2: Spells of Breath and Blade by Sarah Piper

Mediocre offering in a good series - Edinburgh Midnight by Carole Lawrence

Jackson Brodie is a total d*** - One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

A really long review that has spoilers - Becoming Beatriz by Tami Charles

Sometimes Friends Give You Bad Books - Pay the Piper: A Rock n' Roll Fairytale by Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple

Me and my pagan crew - Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

Stan Lee and the Novel that Doesn’t Work - A Trick of Light by Stan Lee, Kat Rosenfield

They were way too immature to turn down a shot at those bragging rights - Tools of Engagement by Tessa Bailey

More like Thud and Fizzle Out - Crash and Burn by Lisa Gardner

Condescending, which in this case means talking down to your readers (CBR12Bingo: Fresh Starts) - The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

An intriguing but ultimately disappointing take on aliens coming to Earth - Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

Only Half of What Was Promised - How to Use Your Sewing Machine to Make, Mend, and Customize by Alison Smith MBE

I remember the Russians - Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

Not all Gingerbread Boys are edible - Lint Boy by Aileen Leijten

To be celebrated - M is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child by Tiffany Rose; Black Girl Magic A Poem by Mahogany L. Browne

Money, it’s a crime - The Assistants by Camille Perri

‘Tortured genius’ trope: less interesting when not played by Hugh Laurie - American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson

Don’t Let the Whimsical Cover Fool You: The Hits Just Keep on Coming - The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill

I admit it: I didn’t get it. But then again, I got it like a hot stick between the eyes - Birthright by George Abraham

The Muppets Did it Better - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

It has taken me eleven years to get through this book. - Phantom (Sword of Truth, #10) by Terry Goodkind

No Real Gold Here, Just Dull Rocks with Spraypaint - Gold by Dan Rhodes

If only this one would have stuck to the shelf - Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

I Don’t Care What Anyone Says, This Is Not a Romantic Comedy - You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

Tell me it gets better - Storm Front by Jim Butcher

“Sugary elixirs of spirituality diluted in platitudes” - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

There is more than just that silly ol’ bear - Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne

Thank goodness I didn’t read this debut first - The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab

Doesn’t Seem Worth Continuing the Series - Moving Violation by Melanie Jackson

Snow Dice - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The film is WAY better than the book - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

I wish I liked this more - Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman

I fail to can (CBR12Bingo: Uncannon) - Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Thanks, I’ll Pass - All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg

Ironically titling this review ‘A Good Book’. - A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

It became their motto, and Jonsey couldn’t for the life of him remember which of them started saying it first. - Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

Probably a better show than a book (CBR12Bingo: Adaptation) - Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders

This is not the Anne Boleyn you are looking for - Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession by Alison Weir

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