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

Into the Ghostlands - Briar Queen by Katherine Harbour

Wonder Woman and I Are Confused - Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Lies (Rebirth) by Greg Rucka

Do Not Enter The Dragon - Bruce Lee by Mike Baron

I’m several decades too young for this one - Dropped Names: famous men and women as I knew them by Frank Langella

Poor unfortunate retelling - Poor Unfortunate Souls: A Tale of the Sea Witch by Serena Valentino

But damn, that title - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Needs a Dash More Spider’s Eye - The Familiar by Jill Nojack

Wasn’t this a Jennifer Lopez movie? Well, except for the murder… - Veil of Night by Linda Howard

Next time the Library, not Bookstore - The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

I really liked it, until I didn’t. - The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

I Missed Marple - The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

It’s all part of her rock and roll fantasy - The Rock Star in Seat 3A by Jill Kargman

Kids making bad choices is a hard pass from me. - The Pigman by Robert Zindel

I feel guilty I didn’t like this more - We are never meeting in real life by Samantha Irby

Too Bleak for Me - Noir by Diana Schutz

Breaking my teeth on the sweetness - The Dream-Maker's Magic by Sharon Shinn

Confidence With Some Product Placement And Gender Norming - How to Be a Bad Bitch by Amber Rose

If Princess Leia got corrupted and Vader was absent, would you still like Luke? - Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine

Redeeming a (not so) notorious lady - An Affair with a Notorious Heiress by Lorraine Heath

Sacrifices understanding for looking real smart. Mistakes complexity for depth. - Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1) by Yoon Ha Lee

Like hope, stupid also floats. - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Pretty Woman - Review #: Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour by Dita von Teese

A Southern Gothic fail - Lookaway, Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt

Welp. - The Wicked and the Divine by Kieron Gillen et al

This is a lot of novels - Hotel World by Ali Smith

It’s not the book, it’s me - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Not in the Cards, Mon Ami. - X-Men Origins: Gambit by Mike Carey

You’re in a cult, call your dad - The Girls by Emma Cline

‘Grimdark’ wears out its welcome for me - The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

What If #BlackLivesMatter Was About a White Girl? - Scarlet Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev

I don’t generally root for the bad guy… - Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

My Sister Hated It - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Pretty cover, but that’s all this book has going for it - Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell

Honestly, by the end of the trilogy, I just felt sick. - Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

Bad Impulses - All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani

This lady talks about chemtrails, I have a hard time believing anything she says… - Heal Hashimoto's: Start with the Gut by Dr. Sharon Lee Rasa

“And Benny might have been clueless about a lot of things, but about one thing he was absolutely right: Your only hope was to Be There…” - We Know It Was You by Maggie Thrash

Empty, amusing calories - Sh*t my dad says by Justin Halpern

It Left Me On a Jet Plane - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

I Kind of Just Feel Nothing with this One - Pop by Gordon Korman

Not Sure There’s Enough Here For a Book - The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle

Pride and Prejudice…. if the Bennetts were worse than the original - Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld

Interesting concept, no interesting characters - City at the End of Time by Greg Bear

A for Method, D for Conclusions - What is the Bible? by Rob Bell

Some People Call Him The Space Vampire - The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson

Meh, At Least It’s Short! - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Rob Bell is trying so hard to be the “cool pastor” and it’s not working for me. - What Is the Bible? by Rob Bell

A frustrating memoir that was billed to me as hilarious. - The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch

Resistance is futile - Acceptance (Southern Reach #3) by Jeff VanderMeer

“My mind considers for one split second a world without Esther, and it makes me feel sad.” - Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica

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