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

Don’t Worry Be Happy… even if your smile is upside down - Don’t Worry, Bee Happy: An Acorn Book by Ross Burach

Put the Needle on it - Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

It’s about sleeping, and it’s somehow exhausting - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Way too long for only one note - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

A ghost story without much story - The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike

Best Selling Bore - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre

When a Tiger comes to dinner she will want to….. - When a Tiger Comes to Dinner by Jessica Olien

“Better nonexistence than pain” – whatever, dude - Office of Mercy by Ariel Djanikian

The art of sharing? - Not Your Nest!  by Gideon Sterer

A-quirk-able! - My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper

A disappointing end to a promising series - The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows by James Lovegrove

Featuring the fastest copy machine available - The Firm by John Grisham

Read “The Primal Wound” Instead - Coming Home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up by Nancy Newton Verrier

The Speed Bump in an Otherwise Smooth Ride - House of Chains by Steven Erikson

It is a truth universally acknowledged that giraffes aren’t all that sexy. - Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

This Barely Qualifies as a Romance - Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren

If You Live Forever…Maybe Do Something? - Eternal Life by Dara Horn

Just don’t read the last chapter - When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica

Reminded Me of Under the Dome…Not a Good Reference Point - Sleeping Beauties by Owen King

The sky is falling - Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron

I needed more of a reason to care what happened to these people - The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

What’s the word for half-smitten? Smooten? Smittle? - Smitten by the Brit by Melonie Johnson

Allow, if you’re still alive, six to eight years to arrive - Sunburn by Laura Lippman

I Think I Missed Something - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

In which I rant about the heroine - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

“If the hair was found, other parts of themselves might be recoverable too.” - The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

Sometimes a book is meant to be read once, then never talked about again…. - The Panda Problem by Deborah Underwood; Lana Lynn Howls at the Moon by Rebecca Van Slyke

Bland and Watery - Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker: Reinvent the Slow-Cooked Meal by Nicki Sizemore

A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kind of book - His Favorites by Kate Walbert

Any man who can spend a million a year and have nothing to show for it, don’t need a recommendation from anybody. - Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon

Terror in an Idyll - A Taste for Vengeance (Bruno, Chief of Police Series) by Martin Walker

Better luck next time - 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

Insert cat pun here. - Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale by Myracle, Lauren

Those crawdads gonna need to sing a little louder - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Lost in Translation or Indecision - Every Tool's A Hammer by Adam Savage

You don’t have to hide it from me. - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

“Microbes do more than infect us, however; they are us, in the sense that we harbor more microbes than human cells” - Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness by Harriet A. Washington

Wow. Not in a Good Way. - Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs

I don’t really know why I disliked this book about time-traveling bodyswaps in Tudor England. - Spark by Catherine Friend

Please Save me From White Savior Books - No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman

There were no servants to maintain the house; they were indistinguishable from the guests by then. - Hell House by Richard Matheson

You were supposed to be the chosen one! - Letters From Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi

Bring Me Back - Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris

I Want This Book, But Good - The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food is Wrong by Barry Glassner

Improbable + gloomy = Not interested - The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

Besides, beautiful wasn’t a word you used to describe other people. - Light Years by Kass Morgan

Oh Cruel Obsession, You Must Be a Woman - The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason

Yadda yadda yadda, and there was peace throughout the land - Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Not That Engrossing, Story Loses Itself Halfway Through - Sanctuary by Nora Roberts

The Main Character Was Too Hard to Take - Death and Other Happy Endings by Melanie Cantor

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  • Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
  • Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
  • Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
  • Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.
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