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

Back for the Bingo! - The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis; The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis; Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood by Andrew Rannells; The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard; The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

“You’ll feel light in your body” - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

No, they weren’t all prostitutes - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

Revenge might be a dish best served cold, but don’t serve it to Sherlock Holmes -  A Study in Scarlet (Graphic Novel) by Arthur Conan Doyle

HALF CANNONBALL! - Patterns of Fashions 2: Englishwomen's Dresses & Their Construction, 1860 - 1940 by Janet Arnold

Get down and boogie! - Viloet’s Music by Angela Johnson

Bon Appetit! - Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child by Jessie Hartland

Sometimes you find a poem, sometimes it finds you - Daniel Finds a Poem by Micha Archer

The bond between soldier and dog - Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan

Somebody Set Me Up - The Cutie by Donald E. Westlake

You can die from constipation. Just ask Elvis Presley’s doctor. - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

A long apprenticeship for this final act of bad judgment - Orfeo by Richard Powers

Summer is perfect for hot romance short stories - Burning Up by Nalini Singh, Angela Knight, Mejean Brooks, Virginia Kantra

Now that fate had unfurled my future, I simply had to find out more about him; the singer, the answer. - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The Ambossans also called Europa, the Gray Continent, on account of the skies always being overcast. - Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo

It is probable that at least one of the guests was wholly happy. - Cover Her Face by PD James

I saw you once. - Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippmann

Medieval Mayhem Aligns with Modern Politics - Fifth Ward Friendly Fire by Dale Lucas

Some Sisterly Murder - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Redemption for the Great Library - Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine

Nasty Women Anthem & Memoir - Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson

Psycho killer, qu’est que c’est? - My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

“… the war had been on for a long time now, and I could not even remember a time when the war had not been on.” - Fly Away Home by Christine Nöstlinger

Engineers in Love - Earth Bound (Fly Me to the Moon #2) by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner

Interesting Look at Christie During Her Travels with First Husband - The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie

Organizing To Make Work Life Better - Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres by Jamie Woodcock

It Doesn’t Look Good, Folks - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

A Small and Compelling Fictional Look at 90s Startup Culture - Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

The Shop Around the Corner - The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

Master your mind - The Rock Warrior's Way by Arno Ilgner

“The fairy silver brought you a monster of fire for a husband, and me a monster of ice.” (Bingo) - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

When you don’t know you, how can anyone else? - A Year Without a Name: A Memoir by Cyrus Grace Dunham

Look At This Photograph! - Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand

I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike… (Bingo) - Ride with Me by Ruthie Knox

Love doesn’t keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace. - Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter

Reproductive Freedom and the Apocalypse - The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

Bingo: And So It Begins, with free running off the rooftops of New York - Discount Armageddon (Incryptid Series Book 1) by Seanan Maguire

I Can Always Use A New Urban Fantasy Series - Grave Witch by Kalayna Price

Do you believe in Magic? - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Well, I Didn’t See That Coming - A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Famous Last Words - Looking for Alaska by John Green

Watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Do you take this romance to be your NotMyWheelHouse book? - The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date #3) by Jasmine Guillory

I hear the brief scream of a rabbit; the owl has found supper. - The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

Park turned toward the Plexiglas window and waited for a world of suck to hit the fan. - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

This galactic honeymoon was delayed, but perhaps better so. - Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold

Is that your idea of how men advance? - Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold

Squicky - Beast In View by Margaret Millar

Executioner’s Psalm - The Green Mile by Stephen King

FLESH EATING ANCIENT SPIDER APOCALYPSE - The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone

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