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

When you’re young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you - Transit by Anna Seghers

B. A. Paris knows how to write a thriller! - Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

“Silence is the only privacy.” - All Rights Reserved (Word$, 1) by Gregory Scott Katsoulis

Everybody please read this so I can have somebody to talk to about it. - Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) by Marlon James

A little Dollop will do ya - Dollop and Mrs. Fabulous by Jennifer Sattler

Completely mis-titled, he was a very nice guy - Not So Nice Guy by R.S. Grey

Shut up, Shinji - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.k. Rowling

“who hurt you once before, so far beyond repair” - The Nature of the Beast (Inspector Gamache #11) by Louise Penny

A Nice Peek at Peter & Nightingale - The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch

Diets Don’t Work - The Metabolic Storm, 2nd Edition by Emily Cooper

There was something of the pavilion about one raincoat… - The Bride of the Innisfallen by Eudora Welty

A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony - The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

You can’t escape your own nature. - The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

“Squirrels again?” “They started it!” - Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you’d seen them. - Endless Night by Agatha Christie

It was artificial conversation, but it tided us over the first awkwardness - Crooked House by Agatha Christie

Hostages and Opera - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Are Your Plans Good Enough To Hold Up to Time Travel and Amnesia - An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2) by James Islington

Love before first sight - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Persistence of Time - The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey

“I wish his darkness lived outside of him, because you have to know it’s there to see it. Like all real monsters, he hides in plain sight.” - Sadie by Courtney Summers

Talking about a murmuration - One Dark Bird by Liz Garton Scanlon

I bet just you love that Mr. Darcy, and your sentimental heart beats widely at the thought that he and, well, you know, whatever her name is, are truly, honestly going to end up together. - Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

B is for Beastie Boys - Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz

Frankly I still have doubts about whether she even wrote it. - Masks by Fumiko Enchi

Harry Dresden and the Dark Hallow: Yes, there are wizards, but this ain’t Hogwarts - Dead Beat by Jim Butcher

Grab a cup of gravi-tea and get ready for an out of this world trip - Mousetronaut: Based on a (Partially) True Story by Mark Edward Kelly

It won’t be long - Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor

“Beautiful girl, lovely dress, where she is now I can only guess” - Good as Gone by Amy Gentry

Love stories and survivor guilt make for a surprising good read - The One Who Got Away by Roni Loren; The One You Can't Forget by Roni Loren; The One You Fight For by Roni Loren

Too Much to Say About the Cat - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

A story of two Hollywood legends - The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin

“I want a man who stays out of my way.” - Waistcoats & Weaponry (Finishing School, #3) by Gail Carriger

Christianity aside, there was for me a repulsive side to Eliot’s poetry: an aversion to ordinary life and people. - Essential Essays by Adrienne Rich

If I didn’t already like this series, this book would have converted me. - Fate's Edge (The Edge, #3) by Ilona Andrews

How gender screws with all of us - The Gender Games: the problem with men and women, from someone who has been both by Juno Dawson

Fury is a cloud that leaves my mind empty and my heart black. - Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James

I have no idea what I’m doing - Exhibition Design by Philip Hughes

Marie Kondo is a Heartless Monster and I Love Her For It - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo

I only write long Rowling reviews - Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling pseudonym), Robert Glenister (narrator)

Don’t Say We Didn’t Try - Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe by Rebecca Erbelding

When he casually fails to mention his other fiancée - Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellin

A chrysalis of drugs - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

The Ratf#%^ers - The Seersucker Whipsaw by Ross Thomas

A Brief Word from Your Friendly Sentient Killing Machine - All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Beck

This would make a good book club read - Sadie by Courtney Summers

Well, let’s not say PERFECT… - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

I’m No Hero . . . I’m More of a Last Resort - Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

She didn’t like to be alone. Even more, she didn’t like being with people. - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

She was a brilliant painter, really an exceptional artist, and she suffered a lot of pain. - 99 Stories of God by Joy Williams

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