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

All Roads Lead to the Oedipus Complex - The Fifty-Minute Hour by Robert Lindner

“God cannot help when natural stupidity is driving the cart.” - The Alewives: A plague-era tale of murder, friendship, and fine ale (The Alewives of Colmar #1) by Elizabeth R. Andersen

Mob Justice in a Western Town - The Ox Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.” - Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R. F Kuang

Nice Little Surprise - Death in the Arctic by Tom Hindle

Something’s Wrong - Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

Copper Script - Copper Script by K.J. Charles

New England Gothic Horror - A Wild and Hungry Place by EE Ottoman

Wish You Were Here - The Balloon Hunter by Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor

“Gods are among us and they care nothing and are nothing like us.” - Kraken by China Mieville

Hubris and the British Empire, a Match Made in Heaven - Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin

A Perfect Way to Celebrate the Movie’s 40th Birthday - "What Do You Mean, Murder?” Clue and the Making of a Cult Classic by John Hatch

“Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.” - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

“The AUDACITY of society to infuse ‘manhood’ into a child’s life.” - All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

Fantasy with less romance but more dogs - Assassin’s Apprentice: Book One of the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

A Potpourri of Gene-Editing Perspectives - The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans by Eben Kirksey

The Dragon Revenant - The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison

End of the Ghost Roads - Angel of the Overpass by Seanan McGuire

“Oona was still learning, everytime she leaped no matter the year someone important would be absent from life.” - Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London - The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

“Kids do well when they can.” - The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene

Unlucky Coins - The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

Greed, pretty princesses and monsters - Darkly She Goes by Hubert

For a guy without a head, that Headless Horseman has a good one on his shoulders. - Ghost Circus by Adrienne Kress

Do they like Ray Charles, Elton John or Liberace? - The Elephant and the Piano by Colette Hiller

Zombie, Ohio by Scott Kenemore - Zombie, Ohio by Scott Kenemore

The power of three will set us free - The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller

A piece of the story - Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout

And you thought Disney had issues - Beauty by Hubert

Nancy D goes 21st century - he Secret of the Old Clock: A Nancy Drew Detective Story by Marci Kay Monson and Ryan Wheatcroft

I wish we didn’t need books like this - Stolen Colors: A Story About Body Safety and Consent by Patel Khushboo and Tara Anand

And now we wait - Accomplice to the Villain: A Novel by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

All Hallows by Christopher Golden - All Hallows by Christopher Golden

Poems from new shoes and falling leaves to friendship to growing up - Poetry Comics by Grant Snider

A Two Week Vacation with Everyone who Hates You at Murder House - All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles

I struggled, but it’s still a Martha Wells book - Queen Demon by Martha Wells

A Very Horny Ode to Kindness - Dealing With a Desperate Demon by Charlotte Stein

The Last Samurai - Yojimbot Volume 1: Metal Silence by Sylvain Repos and Noiry

Talking goats, the common cold and other ways to change history - Earthdivers V01: Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones; Earthdivers V02: Ice Age! by Stephen Graham Jones

When I told my nephew the zombies were looking for brains and we were safe, he didn’t get it - Plants vs. Zombies Volume 1: Lawnmageddon by Paul Tobin

Well Halloween is coming up so this is a good time to talk about this book - The Last Halloween, Book 1: Children by Abby Howard

notes on an absolutely barbaric practice still thriving in the US of A - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

pay no attention to the striking workers in the corner, they won’t be a key factor in this novel nope - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

“Wealth is just security. Luxury is living care free.” - The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

really, truly didn’t expect to be so engrossed by a book that plaintively does not offer any answers - I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

Back when there were still witches - The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

There’s Nothing More Ill-Mannered than Loving Your Own Wife - Sex and Scandals in Georgian England by John Rankin

Dispatches from the Frontier - Little Pasture on the Prairie by Eliza Blue

Gods and Monsters - Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

Scuttlebut - Network Effect (Murderbot #5) by Martha Wells

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