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

A Victorian Rom Com - Bridal Favors by Connie Brockway

The Boy in the Bubble - Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaram

Shark Repellent Was Designed to Act as a Placebo - Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

The Ghosts of Tragedies Past - Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger

“When something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki’s fault. It saves a lot of time.” - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Dickensian Gaslamp Fantasy - Brother's Ruin by Emma Newman

Titles, shmitels. He’s rich. - Cell by Stephen King

Elementary, my dear. - Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino

Charades with Nicole Kidman - The Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion by Meghan Daum

Lucy Parker At It Again - Pretty Face by Lucy Parker

A heart-breaking story - A Long Way Home (aka Lion) by Saroo Brierley

I really need to reread Vonnegut - If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young by Kurt Vonnegut

Star-Crossed Lovers for a modern age - The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Nerdy overachievers unite! - The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson

Recommended for lovers of nifty charts - Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe

The Cuckoo’s Not a Bird in This One - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

A witch, a vampire and a pixie walk into a bar - Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

Wonder No More, This Book is Good! - The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

Circus of Inhumans - Magic For Nothing by Seanan McGuire

A Fun Read Not Heavy on the Sci-Fi - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

“I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol.” - The Parasol Protectorate Series by Gail Carriger

GRRM Light - The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams

Gabaldon, I love you, but I have notes on this one - Voyager (Outlander #3) by Diana Gabaldon

An excellent book to read for Women’s History Month - Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away by Lisa Napoli

“People don’t want to think about it.’ ‘I can see why,’ I said. ‘It makes my head hurt.’” - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Carnivals, Monsters, and Magic- Oh My - Magic for Nothing by Seanan McGuire

Baseball and Brain Injuries! - The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Ending on A Good Note - The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats by Mark Hodder

Fighting Demons with the Power of Music - Magia the Ninth by Ichiya Sazanami

7 Princes- Really 6- Indiana Jones style - The Seven Princes of the Thousand Year Labyrinth vol.1 by Atori Haruno and Aikawa Yu

Yes All Women - Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Rodents of Unusual Size - A Case of Possession by KJ Charles

Light escapism, and a lot of fun - Chase Me by Laura Florand

Don’t expect a happy ending to this one - The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death by Kim Harrison

Fun Yet Profound Messages in a Kid’s Christian Comic - Rescue Me!: What Superheroes Can Teach Us About the Power of Faith by Bryce Morgan

The first Murakami is….much like any other Murakami - Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami

A Hain, a Doe, and a Willa Cather novel walk in a bar Part 1 - The Found and the Lost by Ursula K Le Guin

Read all four, you’ll be glad you did. - The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, Son by Lois Lowry

Modern acting heroines in historical settings are my jam - Magnate by Joanna Shupe

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.” - the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

“Yes, even after sleeping with a senator, and waking up next to a dead friend, and celebrating Michael Jackson’s last Christmas with him and his kids, I still did not feel—how shall I put this?—mentally sound.” - Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher

Unpacking the ripple effects of a shooting - How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

I’m not upset. Why would you be? - The Dinner by Herman Koch, translated by Sam Garrett

Sad People are Merciless - Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enrique

“Because you’ll never meet me and it’s the closest we can get.” - Because You'll Never Meet Me (Because You'll Never Meet Me #1) by Leah Thomas

People suffers a lot, but my heart was full of hope. I know. - O Filho de Mil Homens by Valter Hugo Mãe

Normally I don’t like short experimental fiction…. - Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins

WTF, UNCLE STEVIE? - The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

Someone tell me what they think the title means because I need to talk about it. - Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

Strange Sisters - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

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