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

How to Murder Your Life – Cat Marnell (2017) - How to Murder your Life by Cat Marnell

Thirteen stories from a “book-based lifeform” - Alias Space and Other Stories by Kelly Robson

In India - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Are we cake? Are those cake versions? Of us? - How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole

yes, but…maybe she’ll make an exception and WE can meet? - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

hide all you want, but nothing stays buried - Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

Women in science, 19th century edition - Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Cooking my way through this one - East by Meera Sodha

Familiar but Interesting - Deception by Gaslight by Kate Belli

Tom Robbins re-reads #2, #3, and #4: Cowgirls, frog legs, and making love stay - Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins; Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins; Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins

Et tu, Aristophanes? - Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

Turns out, she’s still a genius - Turns out, I'm fine by Judith Lucy

This was their time to be really f’ing weird. - Breaking Badger by Shelly Laurenston

Douglas Adams was brilliant and gone too soon - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Welcome to the jungle… - Batman: No Man's Land by Greg Rucka

All things considered, this book is very mild - Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

“Once you realize you don’t need anyone, you can take care of yourself.” - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

If you’re looking for information about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion… Look no further - Strategic Diversity Leadership by Damon A. Williams; Strategic Diversity Leadership by Katrina C. Wade Golden

Orfeo – Richard Powers (2014) - Orfeo by Richard Powers

Choose this day whom you will serve. - The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Christianity Not as Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life by Leo Tolstoy

“…believing in ghosts — that’s believing that love never dies.” - The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Lots of Feelings Actually Works Out For Once - We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal

The Good Life is not the goods life. - Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper

Just a quick check and yes, The Hating Game holds up - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

“She didn’t want mercy. She wanted them to burn.” - The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

An Enjoyably Messy Heist Romance - Between Two Thieves by Sloane Steele

Short, sweet memoir about having to learn an alien world - Almost American Girl by Robin Ha

“But How Do You Poop?” - Words of Radiance: Book 2 of the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson

Poirot vs. A Serial Killer! - The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13) by Agatha Christie

“You get used to marvelous things. You take them for granted. You can try not to, but you do. There’s too much wonder, that’s all. It’s everywhere.” - Later by Stephen King

The rope you climb becomes the rope that binds you - Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag

Cute romance with deftly handled depth - Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane

A human pinball, a calm dog trainer, and lots of doggos - Puppucino by Allison Temple

Don’t we all want that? - Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Ralphael Bob-Waksberg

Some Scientists Keep Searching for Biological Difference - Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini

Magic and Alchemy at School - The Ancient Magus' Bride vol 13 by Kore Yamazaki

Something Old, Something New - The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso

“We’re not in Ghost Busters! This is real life!” - Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega

Heritage, Legacy, and the Choices We Make - Catch a Falling Duke by Eve Pendle

My 2,000th Review! - The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #2) by Seth Dickinson

I look forward to everything Weir writes - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

An intensely human space story - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

A Scholastic Book Fair Staple – with reason - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Strawberry Fields Forever - The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash

Welcome to the Jackie Lau Experience - The Professor Next Door by Jackie Lau

“There was something awfully unpleasant in that handsome face.” - Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Tale as old as Time - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Mad Dog, Out in the Midday Sun - Cujo by Stephen King

“I knew our relationship was strong, and like the house he was renovating for me, it had good bones” - Renovation of Love by Meka James

Spiders, Grasshoppers, and Bears, Oh My! - (Trust) Falling for You by Charish Reid

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