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

The Blame Game - The Blame Game by Sandie Jones

Sometimes you can’t bank a fire when it starts with such a strong spark - A Duke by Default: Reluctant Royals by Alyssa Cole

Missing some meat on those bones… - She-Hulk #4 by Rainbow Rowell

A River in Egypt - River of the Gods by Candice Millard

Mostly a history of sex work in London, actually. - The Sexual History of London by Catharine Arnold

A time travel classic I could have safely missed out on. - Time and Again (Time, #1) by Jack Finney

Home is where you are - The Mouse Who Carried a House on His Back by Jonathan Stutzman

Fox and Boar are friends - Tiny Fox and Great Boar Book Two: Furthest by Berenika Kolomycka

All kinds of words - A Way with Words by Stacy Burch

Let’s go to sleep - The Dreamway by Lisa Papademetriou

[got me] to a nunnery! - Matrix by Lauren Groff; Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography by James Burge; The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici by Elizabeth Lev; Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love by Myriam Cyr

Well, that wasn’t what I expected - Naked in Death by JD Robb

Another Victorian Mystery - A Dangerous Mourning by Anne Perry

Growing up is hard to do - Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Not quite my cup of tea this time around - An Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn

The overlap of horror and reality - The Last Temptation by Neil Gaiman, Alice Cooper, Michael Zulli

A spicy indictment of purity culture? - Purity by Skyler Mason

Amerigo!? Heck no! - The Letters of America Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Amerigo Vespucci

The Importance of Story Over Plot and Character - Damn Fine Story by Chuck Wendig

Are We Out of the Woods Yet? - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

My high school years were never this interesting - Thieves by Lucie Bryon

The Party Crasher - The Party Crasher by Sophie Kinsella

The Therapist - The Therapist by B.A. Paris

starts out v fun but doesn’t quite stay there - Elven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean

An interesting ending to a trilogy - Soulstar by C.L. Polk

A bit of a step down from book one for me, but ymmv - Stormsong by C.L. Polk

Gothic Bathos - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Allergic to an audiobook. - Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) by Rebecca Roanhorse

Fine-Ish - The Little Book of Big Ethical Questions by Susan Liautaud

Hopefully Good for Mothers - I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife & Motherhood by Jessi Klein

We’re talking kings and successions - Warriors: Winds of Change by Erin Hunter

This was fine. - Love at First by Kate Clayborn

Celebrate good times, come on - Hello Sacred Life  by Kim Krans

Why you should make friends with the rat in your house - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

Nuclear Family - Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum

White Butterfly - White Butterfly by Walter Mosley

Wealth Economics - The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 by Lionel Shriver

I’m already dead - Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

When Grandma Flies - The Bird Feeder by Andrew Larsen

The racing striped and helmeted tortoise - Hurry, Little Tortoise, Time for School by Carrie Finison

Sisters - Lulu & Zoey: A Sister Story by Carrie Finison

Books, Friends, and… Murder? - The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club by Lynn Cahoon

They Would Walk 500 Miles - The Long Walk by Stephen King

Two Different Viewpoints on Queer Life in Japan - I Want to be a Wall (Vol.1) by Honami Shirono; X-Gender (Vol.1) by Asuka Miyazaki

“In the secret code of flowers” - Enola Holmes: The Graphic Novels: The Case of the Missing Marquess, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady, and The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets by Serena Blasco

Take a bow - Middle School Misadventures by Jason Platt

Always bring a ferret on your road trip - Fearless: A Graphic Novel by Kenny Porter

Armpit farts and ghost girls - Hilo Volume Five: Then Everything Went Wrong by Judd Winick; Do You Remember the Summer Before? (Black Sand Beach, #2) by Richard Fairgray

Chilled - Heated by Naima Simone

If your therapist started writing chick-lit, this is what you’d get. - Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center

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