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

Charisma check succeeds! - Twenty-Sided Die by Brian Prisco

Marquez: a good cup of tea, just not my cup of tea - Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And the Beat Goes On… - Mo Meta Blues by Questlove

I do have a soft-spot for an Emma - Waiting on You by Kristan Higgins

I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS AND THEY ARE FIGHTING EACH OTHER AND MY BRAIN HURTS - Moth and Spark by Anne Leonard

Less Sexism Than I Expected - A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

That Was a Lot Less Romantic Than I Expected - The Romance of Tristan by Beroul

Women, Medicine, World War I - In Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl

If there’s Sex in the Title it’s bound to be good right? - Masters of Sex by Thomas Maier

Time to branch out, I think, “Mr. Castle.” - Deadly Heat by Richard Castle

A Silly Little Collection of Historical Facts - Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perottet

Sin City: The Hard Goodbye – Review #11 for AamilTheCamel - Sin City - The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller

Happy Accidents - Happy accidents by Jane Lynnch

True Detective, Texas-style - Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto

The Bone Season - The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

Yeah, You’re Probably a Little Bigoted - Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji; Anthony G. Greenwald

So full of metaphor. Guess what the sharks symbolise? - Haiene (The Sharks) by Jens Bjørneboe

From a Bitter Kitten - Everyone Wants to Be Me or Do Me by Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

No matter how creepy, you are no Wednesday Addams, my dear - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Fables Vol. 19: Snow White - Fables Vol. 19: Snow White by Bill Willingham

An Old Man Remembers the Blues - RL's Dream by Walter Mosley

This is Where I Leave You - This is Where I Leave You by CompetitiveNonFiction

It Really Was All Too Brief… - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Hey, if you want someone to clean your house, hire a maid - How To Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman

There are ghosts in the house! - A Haunting in Williamsburg by Lou Kassem

“Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder” - Wonder Boys: A Novel by Michael Chabon

Mattie Get Your Gun - True Grit by Charles Portis

I bet Silo workers keep their hats in the Caps Lock - Shift (Omnibus Edition) by Hugh Howey

The Crazy Land of Scientology - Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

Enough with the humor. Just tell me the story. - This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

Hello, Clarice - The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Round House - The Round House by Louise Erdrich

The Second Highest Peak is Harder - K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs

Guns and Germs and Steel- Oh My! - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Who Wants to Live Forever? - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Badkittyuno’s Review #14: Don’t You Forget About Me by Jancee Dunn - Don't You Forget About Me by Jancee Dunn

Ghost story? Metaphors? Say what now? - Bellman & Black: A Ghost Story by Diane Setterfield

In which a dog does most of the legwork - Three Graves Full by Jamie Mason

Who’d win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God? Trick question, Lemmy is God. - White Line Fever: The Autobiography by Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza

Dear Authors of the World: ‘Dangerous’ doesn’t have to mean ‘Femme Fatale Sex Stripper.’ There are other options. - Dangerous Women by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds.

9/11 Conspiracies and Government Assassins - The Hit by David Baldacci

No dieting? For true? - Intuitive Eating, 3rd Edition by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

Rivers of Sorrow - Rivers by Michael Farris Smith

A germ of a story, surrounded by filler - The Prince and the Pilgrim by Mary Stewart

“Bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky” - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

It’s like the Double Dare obstacle course in book form! - Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty by Joy Masoff

Redefining Realness and the ownership of story - Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

We’ll see how brave you are - The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (Fairyland, #2) by Catherynne M. Valente

Dream a Little Dream (A Robert CBR6 Review) - Succubus Dreams by Richelle Mead

Life, Liberty and Estate - The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

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