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

Our story begins in a run-down bar in Key West, not so many years from now. - The Hemingway Hoax by Joe Haldeman

would have been a nice little jaunt were it not for the casual racism - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

Giant Rabbits, Foot Wounds, and Loose Ends - The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell

The Subinfo Computers owned by Lies, Incorporated had been caught in an unnatural act by a service mechanic. - Lies Inc by Philip K Dick

Time to break up with Sarah Dessen. Or at least see other people. - The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen

If you like Lovecraftian horror, you might like this better than I did. - Maplecroft (The Borden Dispatches, #1) by Cherie Priest

in which i take a premise and push it past its breaking point - Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

This One Was Unfortunately a Miss for Me - Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory

Whoops for last year’s books - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

“‘What the hell goes on here?’ Wesley Ardmore demanded.” - Sixth Column by Robert Heinlein

I’m so disappointed in this book it almost makes me angry. - Royal Holiday (The Wedding Date, #4) by Jasmine Guillory

This book felt like forever - Bones are Forever by Kathy Reichs

Lurid Color - Nightmare in Pink by John D. Macdonald

Manifest Destiny was SO cool! - The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough

Bring back the old Bridget - Bridget Jones' Baby by Helen Fielding

Interesting idea, short on plot - The Walworth Beauty by Michele Roberts

Too much of the less interesting Fleishman - Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Sometimes a book seems like it was written just for you; then you actually read it, and then you are sad. - On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

A Small Town With Some Big Secrets - The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg

Reading This During the Holidays Was Probably a Mistake - We Are Monsters by Brian Kirk

Twenties Girl - Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains? - Snow White by Donald Barthelme

Bardugo can do so much better than this entire debut trilogy. - Siege and Storm (The Grisha Trilogy, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

Slow going - Semper Fidelis by Ruth Downie

Chasing the love of these humans who made you feel wanted - Shiny Objects by James Roberts

I’m not sure if I liked this book or not. - Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey

“A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman’s nature.” - The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel

It’s why you jump in the first place.. - The Upside of Falling Down by Rebekah Crane

She has fainted from ill-usage and exhaustion. - Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Teenage Kinks - The Secret Place by Tana French

Proceeds from sales of THE SERIOUS GOOSE will be donated - The Serious Goose by Jimmy Kimmel

A Pity When a Book Falls Apart - Christmas at Silver Falls by Jenny Hale

The Haunted - The Haunted by Danielle Vega

Futuristic witches should not be this bland and disappointing - The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata

Imagination Station - Life as a Mini Hero by Olivier Tallec

A 700 page detour away from the main plot and characters of the series. - The Pillars of Creation (The Sword of Truth, #7) by Terry Goodkind

90% good spoiled by 10% dumb - The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper

Last Night I Dreamed I Went to the 1300s Again - The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

A book I did not expect to hate. - Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Finally trying to learn more about the suffragette movement than what I was shown in Mary Poppins. - Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

The city lay like a sparkling nest of rare gems, shimmering in layer upon layer of pulsating intensity. - Cop Hater by Ed McBain

Mile after mile, he goes over the past few years. - The Cook by Maylis de Kerangal; Deal of a Lifetime by Frederik Backman

Disappointment Sets In - The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

Go West Young Pig - Clarence Goes Out West & Meets a Purple Horse by Jean Ekman Adam

It resists and obscures the sense of modernism. - Introducing Postmodern by Richard Appignanesi

I don’t know who this is for (but it’s not me) - Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

Started Off Promising…Descended into Chaotic Reading - Vox by Christina Dalcher

Road trip - The Lost Cousins by B.B Cronin

A little snoring gets awfully annoyin’ - Stop Snoring, Bernard! by Zachariah OHora

Worst seat ever. - Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis

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