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

“It just goes round and round, one big circle. We’re trapped. All trapped’ - The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

Sudo read this comic if you don’t already - XKCD Volume 0 by Randall Munroe

Been Here The Whole Time - Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Let It Burn…Wanna Let It Burn… - Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

Love couldn’t solve everything, but without love, there was nothing to solve. - 40-Love by Olivia Dade

Justice Is a Matter of Judgment - Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

A Good Starting Point - White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

My First M/M Romance - Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

One sibling on the way for a special big brother - When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff

White Like Me - White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

And a shout out to Mom for moving the dead squirrel - Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley

Dead men tell no tales….. unless it is in the form of a trilogy - Exquisite Corpse by Penelope Bagieu

Loved the mystery and secret societies, current events made the excessive privilege stomach churning - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

If you want to read a book that makes you sorry you read it, but in a good way, this is for you. - Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

I’ve hated sports ever since I was a little kid. - Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang

The Aliens are Just a Catalyst for These Deeply Human Journeys - I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

“TOM!” - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

You don’t see what’s right in front of your eyes, she said, but sometimes he did. - Just After Sunset by Stephen King

Kind of wondering what Queenie would think of current events? - Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams

Victorian Gothic and Lovecraft Mashup - Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

Another Jackie Lau that made me very hungry - The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau

Let Me Live in this Universe! - Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

A Good Bridge Novel - China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

Discover a familar book for the first time - Brightly Woven: The Graphic Novel by Alexandra Bracken

The Answer - Not A Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson by Kent Babb

Okay, I Finally Get the Appeal of the Enemies-to-Lovers Thing - Anyone But You by K.G. MacGregor

Her heart was a burning, brilliant thing lodged against her ribs. - Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibert

“Death was for-the other people.” - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding. - The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

“The success of a marriage invariably depends on the woman,” Mrs. Greenway said. - Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

Solid Second in the Series - Trap by Lilja Sigurðardóttir

Smash the Patriarchy - The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

The Right Kind of Fantasy for Now - The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

A great read so long as you suspend disbelief - Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris

This cozy series is full of love and food - The Noodle Shop Mysteries by Vivien Chien

“That which does not kill us,” I said, “has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.” - Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

Love Knows No Boundaries - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amar El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Lady Spies Rule - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Read a little story with me - Your Turn, Adrian by Helena Oberg

Lisa Naffziger, I say this with love and respect, you are one disturbed lady! I like you!  - Minus by Lisa Naffziger

True Criminal - The Last Stone by Mark Bowden

Friends don’t let friends die in video games - Glitch by Sarah Graley

Gods, Goddesses, Mortals, Action! - The Red Pyramid book one of The Kane Chronicles by Orpheus Collar

A Welcome Addition To YA Dystopias - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

At some moments chilling, at others desperately sad… - Atonement by Ian McEwan

James and Phyllis were spending a wonderful holiday in space. - Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle

In the beginning there was a river. - The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Good Start to a Series - Snare by Lilja Sigurðardóttir

See, what we have here is a failure to communicate - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Face? by Alan Alda

Are we having fun yet - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

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