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

Bad Harry Potter goes to Narnia Hell Makes for Creepy Dirty Bad Reading - The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Huge Disappointment - The Chocolate Rose by Laura Florand

Even more disappointing - The Legend of Lyon Redmond by Julie Anne Long

The last one was fun. This one felt more like homework. - China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

The characters and story were fine. The editing? Not so much. - Winter by Marissa Meyer

Honey, I shrunk the scientists and let them fight it out with insects - Micro: A Novel by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston

Not My Life Philosophy - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

Meh, it was okay. It’s no “Breaking Into the Wild Bad” though…(ugh, that was awful, I’m sorry) - Peace, Love, and a Dead Hippie Chick: A Novel by N. R. Leigh

I Promise The Next Review Will Be Positive - Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren

A telenovela meets Game of Thrones meets Requiem for a Dream (without all the fun parts) - House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

Enter at your own risk. - House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Tricked by the lure of a quick read - Alone with You (Kowalski Family #6.5) by Shannon Stacey

Racism and repressed sexuality. Not even as fun as THAT sounds. - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

I’m Not Like Those Other Pastors, I’m the Cool Pastor - Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Like Kool Aid And Boxed Wine (Mixed Together) - Switched (A Humorous Romantic Mystery) by Elise Sax

Magical realism that falls flat - Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman

Treacly Secrets of the Been There, Done That Sisterhood - The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells

Religion Is Hard to Kill - The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

The wrong time and medium for this book. - The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive by Marvelyn Brown

YA version of The Bachelor masquerading as dystopian fiction - The Selection. The Elite, The One by Kiera Cass

My Dinner With Ennui - Outline: A Novel by Rachel Cusk

Why would you only spend eleven pages discussing The Daily Show - No Land's Man by Aasif Mandvi

Not that I’m an irresponsible or careless person, I’ve just got really bad judgement - Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

Racecar-Driving Lesbian Nazi Spies - Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose

A Lackluster Friends to Lovers Romance - All He Ever Dreamed (Kowalski Family #6) by Shannon Stacey

Rubin’s Vase - Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica

Raylan returns to Harlan and other stories. - When the Women Come Out to Dance by Elmore Leonard

French WW2 Burnout - All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

If you believe anything can be bigger than Harry Potter, this might be for you - Unwritten Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey and Peter Gross

To All the Men I’ve Loved Before - Dear Mr. You by Mary Louise-Parker

Interesting subject matter, terrible writing - The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Coffee is Unusually Bitter. - Black Coffee by Agatha Christie

Who gives a Helvetica - To Helvetica and Back by Paige Shelton

Stick with Doris Kearns Goodwin - Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse by James L. Swanson

I urge you to stay so far away from this book you might not even want to read this review. - The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Starting the year with unpopular opinions - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Unlike death I’m late to the party - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Sort of What I Expected - Wildflower by Drew Barrymore

Holden Caulfield Goes to Hogwarts - The Magicians by Lev Grossman

An arranged marriage, two races who hate each other. Of this romance is born. - Radiance by Grace Draven

Sometimes Sequels Are Just Unneccesary - After You by Jojo Moyes

What Does The Biographer Owe Us? - A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley by Neal Thompson

Love in the Literary World - The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman

This is the Letter that Never Ends, Yes it goes on and on, my friends! - Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey

“It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.” - Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

The sea will tell, if it can get a word in edgewise - And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi with Bruce Henderson

How to build a Cannonball Read - How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran

Typing in the ’20s - the Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

Just put some nails in your wall. Please. - The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful by Myquillyn Smith

Not really over the moon about this one - Palmetto Moon: A Low-Country Novel by Kim Boykin

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