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

Raven’s Family Tree - Squirrel’s Family Tree by Beth Ferry

Almost finished - A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

The triumphant return of the Constant Reader - The Outsider by Stephen King

“In my humble opinion, pride is a fairly common sin, because everyone thinks very highly of themselves.” - Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

“I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.” - The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

Paul Tremblay is a weird dude but I’m here for it! - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

Sometimes YA seems so grown up - After Zero by Christina Collins

A book within a book! - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

How do I become a math hero? - Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang

The Nobel committee doesn’t always get it right. - Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean

Paging Dr. Spencer Reed….. Your book isn’t so hot…but guess what? - Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belong, and Being Yourself by Matthew Gray Gubler

Betcha on land, they understand that they don’t reprimand their daughters - Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige

Read It Here First - Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

It’s because of you that I know what it feels like to be loved and accepted - The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves

Good Smolder and Original Urban Fantasy - Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

The best in the series so far. This is more like it, Ms. Kleypas - Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas

A lovely book with a beautiful cover - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

Excellent indeed - Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

KatSings has introduced me to a wonderful fantasy series - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

“The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.” - Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray

Innocence vs. experience and everything in between - Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier; Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake

Swedish Gump - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Red Harvest - The Fools In Town Are On Our Side by Ross Thomas

“I learn that I am a tiny piece of a miraculous world.” - We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

The station agent often tried a little teasing with women, especially the plain ones who seemed to appreciate it. - Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage by Alice Munro

If A Book Falls out of a Cliche Tree, Is It Still Good? - Bloody January by Alan Parks

“You are only a prisoner when you surrender.” ― Tad Williams, Shadowplay - Letters to a Prisoner by Jacques Goldstyn

Look up….all the way up….. and the stars will tell you a story about a curious boy - Look Up with Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars by Jenifer Berne

“But she turned her floodlight eyes on me and demanded a confession” - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Half the world’s work’s done by hopeless neurotics - Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

“All the things that make you different make you perfect.” - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

The results of raiding the library where I now work - Bedtime is Canceled by Cece Meng; Help! We Need a Title! by Hervé Tullet

Cheating shmeating! In the mid-19th century, Harvard really knew how to rock a scandal. - Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins

Time travel + Jane Austen Historical Fiction + Romance & Spycraft = This book. - The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn

“Maybe I still haven’t become me. I don’t know how you tell for sure when you finally have.” - The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

It Feels Good to Be Yourself: says it all - It Feels Good to Be Yourself by Theresa Thorn

“When you hear of my homegoing…don’t worry about me” - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Down the rabbit hole - White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig

IOU - I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella

Yelling at Terrible Men - Mrs. Martin’s Incomperable Adventure by Courtney Milan

Stay curious my friend - Elbert, the Curious Clock Tower Bear by Andrew Prahin

Track the field and you’ll see Sunny shining - Track #3 Sunny by Jason Reynolds

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. - Death Comes for the Archbiship by Willa Cather; The Last Reports of the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

Help! We’re Having a Fire(!)…Sale… - The Fire Engine That Disappeared by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

He was so unknown, he was still all possibility, unopened cupboards and drawers - The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst

“As a proper Asian, I chose death over shame.” - How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents by Jimmy O. Yang

Growing up at the edge of Jubilee - Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

Eleven Centuries of History – One Easy Listen - Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler

Yoga Concepts for Beginners - The Tree of Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar

A Thought-Provoking Read for Members of the Adoption Triad - The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child by Nancy Newton Verrier

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