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

A gorgeous series of novellas on the clash between old and new India - The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai

Let The Great World Spin . . . Or Not - Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

Weighty but Worth It - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Dennis Lehane Didn’t Steer Me Wrong - Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda

If He’s Got Any Give in Him, Ain’t Nobody Found It Yet - Any Other Name by Craig Johnson

This Girl is on Fire - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Heading down the Norwegian crime story Hole - The Bat by Jo Nesbo

Finally a Philippa Gregory book I actually enjoyed - The Queen´s Fool by Philippa Gregory

Police Procedural in Dystopian Scotland - Rule 34 by Charles Stross

And now the humans are doing human things 🙁 - A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

No Miss Congenialities here. - Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

A book I read so long ago that I can’t remember if I even reviewed it. - A Spectacle of Corruption by David Liss

M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman - M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman

This Seemed an Appropriate Christmas Day Review - Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle

Living in the Aftermath - Hush by Jacqueline Woodson

The Most Bizarre City - The City and the City by China Mieville

The Silkworm – Rowling gets dark - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

More impressive work from Rowling - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Forget the past when it’s too terrible to face - Deerskin by Robin McKinley

Bone of the Rings! - Bone by Jeff Smith

Walk this way, so I can stab you in the head. - The Walking Dead Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman

What’s love got to do with it? - Fairest Vol. 1: Wide Awake by Bill Willingham

Once you go dragon, you wish for a wagon - Long Walks, Last Flights & Other Strange Journeys by Ken Scholes

Yeah, I was fine. F*cked in Extreme, as Ivy would say. - Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

Never trust button eyes. - Coraline by Neil Gaiman

I want to be Tiny Cooper’s BFF so bad. - Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

A magical flare brings ancient gods to Atlanta - Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

A Booker Winner that doesn’t disappoint - The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

A fascinating labyrinth of a novel - The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Like An Unshakeable Dream - Sleep Donation by Karen Russell

This is a story about post-colonial economic impotence–literally. - Xala by Ousmane Sembène

A Contemporary Mr. Rochester–with puppets! - Heroes Are My Weakness by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Nonchalantly haunting - The Stranger by Albert Camus

A young adult novel that everyone can read - Oranges for Christmas by Margarita Morris

Finally, a trilogy ends in a satisfying way - The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman

This is not the Dickens I was Looking for - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol by Brett Helquist

Growing Up is a Treacherous Endeavor - The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne Valente

The Happiest Hooker - The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber

Deals with demons rarely end well… - Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison

In Which I Read my First Steampunk Book (& kinda like it) - Fate of Nations: Einstein Must Die! by Chris Kouhout

The Santaman came reeking of love into this place and we did not know him. - If Dragon's Mass Eve Be Cold and Clear by Ken Scholes

Not as tear-jerky as the movie - Brave (Little Golden Book) by Tennant Redbank

A time lord, a bounty hunter and a captain walk into a church… - Doctor Who: The Krillitane Storm by Christopher Cooper

A Book For the Anti-Sanctimommy - Motherhood, Smotherhood by JJ Keith

In search of a bodice ripper (Reviews 27 – 31) - The Wallflowers Series by Lisa Kleypas

Discovering Sarah Addison Allen (Reviews 23-26) - (Almost) Complete Works by Sarah Addison Allen

Only one Bad Wolf mention? - Doctor Who: Winner Takes All by Jacqueline Rayner

Sire, the night is darker now / And the wind blows stronger - Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story by J. Jefferson Farjeon

And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son! - The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education by Craig M. Mullaney

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