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

You’ve really got a hold on me - The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

In a sense, omnipotence is a form of impotence. - Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fiction by Robert Coover

Don’t Expect Logical Actions from Racists - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

A Great Read for Young Feminists in the Making - The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill

You’ll never think of vegetables the same way again. - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

The future is augmented - Company Town and Autonomous by Madeline Ashby and Annalee Newitz

It’s a familyyyyy traditiiiiion (of dysfunction) - The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Cooking with Magic - The Wizard's Cookbook by Aurelia Beaupommier

We Can Get There, But It’ll Take Some Work - The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

How many miles to Babylon? - An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire

Between Ragnarok and a Hard Place - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Infuriating but Necessary - Not a Crime to be Poor by Peter Edelman

We are all migrants through time - Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Could Someone Send This to Chris Hemsworth as a script? - Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase

Little Boxes on the hillside, Little Boxes all the same - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Getting Back into the Swing of Things with a Sure Thing - The Lawrence Browne Affair by Cat Sebastian

Cookbook, picture book, and goodbye - Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain

There Are No Magical Cures, But a Good Book Can Soothe the Soul - Making Up by Lucy Parker

A Year in Japan - My Year of Dirt and Water: Journal of a Zen Monk's Wife in Japan by Tracy Franz

How the Other Half Lives - My Brilliant Friend by Elene Ferrante

Similarities don’t stop with our cats - Niblet & Ralph by Zachariah OHora

A Peaceful Garden and book - A Peaceful Garden by Lucy London

Some People Fight Injustice. Some People Perpetrate It. - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

Cannon Book Club: Kindred - Kindred by Octavia Butler

That’s one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once. - Winter by Ali Smith

The Greeks know their tragedy - Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Scalzi at his finest - The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

Make It and your knowledge Grow - Make It Grow: Bring nature to life by lifting the flaps by Debbie Powell

I Am a Bird - I Am a Bird by Dana Walrath

Backyard Fairies - Backyard Fairies by Phoebe Wahl

Lets do the timewarp again! - A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor

One Summer Evening - Summer Evening by Walter de la Mare

This Years’ Vibe is all About… Good-Hearted Creatures/Monsters - Hellboy, volumes 5-9 by Mike Mignola

A quick prayer in gratitude of pleasure. - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

Teddy’s Favorite Toy might be a Surprise - Teddy’s Favorite Toy by Christian Trimmer

Big Nate and friends - Big Nate: What's a Little Noogie Between Friends? by Lincoln Peirce

The changes are coming fast and blind now, and in your skull sits an hourglass with a grain size hole through which numb seconds are sliding. - Cherry by Mary Karr

Mizuno always hated getting up in the morning. - In Black and White by Junichiro Tanizaki

48: An intriguing new novel - Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

43: The arc of not listening to women is long. - The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

42: In the seasonal sequence, we see the consequences of nationalism. - Winter by Ali Smith

32: A much-hyped book that under-delivered a bit. - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

31: A new look at cities as ecological danger sites - Extreme Cities by Ashley Dawson

28: An interesting, if inaccessible, book on liberation theology - The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

Skewer the rich - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

It’s Up to Us - Post Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back by Matthew D’Ancona

If you ain’t happy, you’ve gotten what I could give. - Crumbs from the Table by Lynn Nottage

What she did learn from all the books was something else, something she hadn’t really been expecting, which was that the story of loneliness is much longer than the story of life. - Transit by Rachel Cusk

A Sweet Pea & Friends book - A Farm for Maisie: Sweet Pea & Friends by John and Jennifer Churchman

Girls, Friends, Girlfriends, and Frenemies - Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails by Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss

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