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

Ennui over too many comic-book characters is a thing, I guess. - Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller

A fairly uninspiring historical romance - Catch a Falling Heiress by Laura Lee Guhrke

Two Dimensional Characters, Three Dimensional World - This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

This is how you lose me…(yes, I realize it’s been said before). - This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

How to Bore Readers and Lose Their Interest - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Find the singer’s gun, then shoot yourself with it - The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel

Growing up (in the north of Sweden) is hard to do - Populærmusikk fra Vittula (Popular Music from Vittula) by Mikael Niemi

Shut up, Juliette - Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

A Long Tale of Sight, Sound, and War - All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Like a bad sitcom - The Rosie Effect (Don Tillman #2) by Graeme Simsion

An underwhelming collaboration from some greats - Black Trillium by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton

Yet another final book in a trilogy that can’t stand up to the greatness of the first two books - The Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin

Trapped in Faulty Memories - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Pardon Me, My Curmudgeon is Showing - The Corridor by A.N. Willis

Chuck! It’s Your Cousin, Marvin Berry! Don’t Read This Goddamn Book! - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

An unsuccessful glimpse inside the mind of a killer - Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbo

So Much Potential, So Much Letdown - Song of the Shank by Jeffery Renard Allen

This book is the oil; I’m the water. No mixy good together. - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

On second thought, let’s not go to Camelot. ‘Tis a silly place. - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Who wants to go for a ride? - Stationary Bike by Stephen King

Hangups and hangovers - A Lady of Persuasion (Wanton Dairymaid Trilogy #3) by Tessa Dare

A bit too much mommy-bashing for me - Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

A war-time fable that didn’t really work for me - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

You Got Your Nightside In My Peanut Butter! - From a Drood to a Kill by Simon R. Green

One In A Crowd - The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr

Jesus Lite - Messiah by Jerry Thomas

Thank God it was so short - The Plagiarist by Hugh Howey

They Can’t All Be Winners - The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty

So Disappointing - The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson

Mr. Maybe You Should Skip This One - Mr. Maybe by Jane Green

Another disappointment out of a promising premise - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

It’s Bad When You Don’t Think A Crazy Guy is Crazy Enough, Right? - Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates

This just…wasn’t very good - The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty

Lazy world building - The Maze Runner by James Dashner

So much wasted potential. - The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy

You’ll sourrwvive - A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France by Miranda Richmond Mouillot

It’s All Been Said Before - The Third Kingdom by Terry Goodkind

The Begending of the Endginning - The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind

Casual Misogyny Circus - From Russia With Love by Ian Flemming

nope - Wonderful tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Me by Pattie Boyd

You’re Like a Disease Without Any Cure - Champion by Marie Lu

gimme a match - Things We Set On Fire by Deborah Reed

We Got Ruby F–king Slippered - Confessor by Terry Goodkind

I would have liked a little more Knightley and a little less Sam. - Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay

Boobs: Does Size Really Matter? - Is it Wrong to Try to Pick UP Girls in a Dungeon? by Fujino Omori

Ironic Title Alert! - The Innocent by Ian McEwan

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - The Liar by Nora Roberts

Cinderella should have skipped this ball… - The Cinderella Deal by Jennifer Crusie

These books better start improving, and stat - Brother Odd (Odd Thomas #3) by Dean Koontz

Maybe someday… - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

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