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

Trust the Process - Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports by Yaron Weitzman

Flawed Protagonist - Sam Houston and the American Southwest by Randolph B. Campbell

‘We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human.’ … ‘That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.’ - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells; Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

When the London Met Crashes into Urban fantasy - Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch; Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch; Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

First Impressions About Half Right This Time - Network Effect by Martha Wells

Why is London like Budapest? - Wise Children by Angela Carter

Did I hurt you? - The Blue Room by Georges Simenon

Another Fun Romp Through the Rivers of London - Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

Turn and Face the Strange - The Redeemers by Ace Atkins

With his red hoodie and his bicycle basket full of food - Federico and the Wolf by Rebecca J. Gomez

This way to a friendship - This Way, Charlie by Caron Levis

The air in the New Zagreb neighbourhood where my mother lives smells of bird droppings. - Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic

The meme, though, was misleading. - How We Get Free by Keeange-Yamahtta Taylor

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a diffi-cult interval for a poet. - Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

A bit of mystery and a bit of fun. - The Hoarder by Jess Kidd

The Nostalgia is Palpable - Open Book by Jessica Simpson

Yes, Jackie Lau is my Comfort Read - Pregnant by the Playboy by Jackie Lau

I cannot blame them. - Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household

The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship? - Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna

A Stiff Upper Lip and a Blind Eye - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Science Lesson Via Storytelling - Cells at Work! Vol. 5 by Akane Shmizu

A Dash of Courage, a Pinch of Brains, a Splash of Luck, and a Whole Lot of Heart - The Disasters by M.K. England

I make no apology for presenting a new translation of these document which are our only contact with the life of that extraordinary woman, Ash (b.1457[?]-d.1477). One has long been needed. - A Secret History by Mary Gentle; Carthage Ascendant by Mary Gentle

Robber Barons - Swag by Elmore Leonard

Crazy Rich Asians - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

She puts the Wonder in Woman - Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson

Do you like the mug of a pug or how the Dane reigns? - Bark in the Park! Poems for Dog Lovers by Avery Corman

In the second half of the 1960s, I traveled repeatedly from England to Belgium, partly for study purposes, partly for other reasons which were never entirely clear to me… - WG Sebald by Austerlitz

The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupid triumphant. - Grendel by John Gardner

She hurries from the house, in a coat too heavy for the weather. - The Hours by Michael Cunningham

A football romance with a little reality thrown in - Fumbled by Alexa Martin

Lady Sherlock makes for great audio books - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas; A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas; The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas

A grand celebration of fall that I’ve never experienced - Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks

The Mozart Effect Effect! - Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

What if the Chosen One is flawed? What do you do after you’ve defeated the Big Bad? - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell; Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

This Time, It Stuck - City of Margins by William Boyle

You crusty ol’ sea dog! - Swashby and the Sea by Beth Ferry

He who would travel happily must travel light - Nomadland by Jessica Bruder

Not So Ordinary - Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Return to Gilead - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Cute but Spooky - Ghost Hog by Joey Weiser

Novik spun gold with her creative re-working - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

An autobiography in verse - Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

“The monster was the best friend I ever had.” Boris Karloff - House of Fear: Attack of the Killer Snowmen and Other Stories by James Powell

They came from outer space…. - Supers (Book One): A Little Star Past Cassiopeia by Frederic Maupome

A Worthwhile Read - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

“Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master-something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.” – Charlotte Bronte - Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories by Lily Tuck

More Magic A Little Austen and A Few Surprises - The True Queen by Zen Cho

Is love really the answer in the end? - Dimension W, vol. 16 by Yuji Iwahara

“Gender equality is the unfinished business of the 21st Century” - Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

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