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

Great Nature Story; Odd Personal Story - Island of Dreams by Dan Boothby

What’s the opposite of warp speed? - Warp by Lev Grossman

During World War Two, in the concentration camp Terezin, something grew - The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World by Elisa Boxer

Dance with a side of criminal profiling - The Spectacular by Fiona Davis

A Bunch of Neanderthals - Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

A middling middle book - Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner

One of the Better Bosh Books - Bosh! by Henry Firth, Ian Theasby

It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn - The Legacy of Arniston House by T.L. Huchu

What is Yours? - Penance by Eliza Clark

She took a real trip - Scout Is Not a Band Kid by Jade Armstrong

Two siblings and their adventure - Afar by Leila del Duca, Kit Seaton and Taneka Stotts

A Few Twists, Some Predictable - The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Pleasant but forgettable - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Sometimes Books You Loved as a Teen Don’t Age Well - The Dead Boy Detectives by Jill Thompson

Teamwork is Dreamwork - Tryouts: (A Graphic Novel) (The Brinkley Yearbooks) by Sarah Sax

I had more images I wanted to add, but ran out of space - A Party for Florine: Florine Stettheimer and Me by Yevgenia Nayberg.

Jumping on the bandwagon - Bride by Ali Hazelwood

“Demi-human, seek knowledge and grow wise.” - The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms by Nagabe

“if not for these pictures, these sturdy images pulled out of the blur of her memory, her life would have no solidity” - Hum by Helen Phillips

last two! an opioid double header - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe; Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

A Jamaican-inspired YA fantasy with dragons - So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

Was there a page max or something? - The Removed by Brandon Hobson

Ignore the Marketing on This One—This Is a Different Kind of Dragon-Novel - The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons

“There’s something about realizing that the birds have been here all along, and all I have to do is learn to pay attention.” - Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb

“For I fear that the day when aliens reveal themselves to us fully will also become the first day of the end of life on Earth as we know it!” - UFO Mushroom Invasion by Shirakawa Marina

Not my favorite - A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.” - Beartown (Beartown #1) by Fredrik Backman

Suffering on the high seas - The Wager by David Grann

Psychopaths need love, too - Sociopath by Patric Gagne

Your past is not an excuse…but it is an explanation - What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

A companion to find creative and personal freedom - The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

Grey’s Anatomy with Werewolves - The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson

sex work can also be funny! - Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

should have waited for the Omnibus - White Sand Vol. 1 by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, Julius Gopez; White Sand Vol. by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, Julius Gopez; White Sand Vol. by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, Julius Gopez

more cosmere novellas, but with an ick - Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson

standalone fantasy - Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

excuse my rant about banking - The Ex-Vows by Jessica Joyce

a book that is well written but infuriating - The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami

And they all fall down. - The Fall of the House of Usher: A Graphic Novel by Edgar Allen Poe and Raul Garcia

A girl and her dog learn what loves got to do with it - What's Love All About, Minimoni? by Rocio Bonilla

Orange is the new pumpkin - Little Orange Pumpkin by Erin Guendelsberger

Orphans and them - We Called Them Giants by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans and Clayton Cowles

Skimpy Mystery - Murder by Plum Pudding by Lee Strauss

Friends and differences - Don't Invite a Bear Inside for Hanukkah by Karen Rostoker-Gruber

This review happened because around 20 years ago a grandmother gave her grandson a banana to eat…. - Benny the Bananasaurus Rex by Sarabeth Holden and Emma Pedersen

Surviving middle school is hard - Just Beyond #1 The Scare School by R.L. Stine, Nichole Matthews and Kelly Matthews

Any Fake Date in A Storm - My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine

I’m not the audience, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be - Pi Squad Mysteries #1  Sabotage at Casa Grande Springs by DD Sterner

The (rear) end - My Brother's Butt Is Haunted by Dan Poblocki and James Rey Sanchez

Truly Ambivalent (also, CANNONBALL) - Butter by Asako Yuzuki

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