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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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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

More YA Steampunk! (but sadly, out of order) - Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger

YA Steampunk? Sure. - Curtsies and Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Lincoln Lawyer Returns in Fine Courtroom Style - The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly

A Mind Puzzle of a Crime Thriller - The October List by Jeffery Deaver

Larry Stu and the Deadly Space War (A Robert CBR6 Review) - John Scalzi by Old Man's War

Best Summer Job Ever - The Sleepwalker by RL Stine

A BFF finds TLA - Romance Is My Day Job by Patience Bloom

The review equivalent of a shrug - The Lost Daughter by Lucy Ferriss

Another great book about a librarian - The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai

“Science is truth found out” - The End of Illness by David B. Agus, MD

Masters Swimming and Murder - Dead in the Water by Glenda Carroll

Abductions, Dionysian Orgies and Mummified Corpses Oh My! - The Villa of Mysteries by David Hewson

Tried to swear off young adult fiction; failed - Max by James Patterson

Because FBI Agents are Inherently Sexy–In Books - Hotshot by Julie Garwood

David, the cheater, and Goliath, the large, disabled man - David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

“Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.” - A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin

In a year 2525 (or thereabouts) - A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Somedays you need to read fluff - Born in Fire by Nora Roberts

Oh, so there really is such a thing? - The Tesseract by Alex Garland

Badkittyuno’s Review #11: The Color Purple by Alice Walker - The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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    on A graphic novel about a graphic interest
    Ooh, putting both this and Savage Appetites on my list!
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    on Trent Dalton’s Latest is Not What I Expected
    Never mind the critics, I hugely enjoyed this book. Hilarious in places, stressful in others and a great advertisement for...
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    on The Outsiders
    I started the second book the other day and I’m riveted!
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    Such a detailed review! I read this one a few years ago and was similarly captivated. I keep meaning to...
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    on Do Hard Things
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