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

Making Sure my Potter Journey is Complete - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander, Albus Dumbledore and JK Rowling

Until Your Old and Broken Bones are Laid into Their Resting Place - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The Seedier Side of Regency London - What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris

I’m late to the train. - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

I miss you, Secretariat. - In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper by Lawrence Block

Notes on the Practical Limits of Longing - Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu

Oh? Friend? - Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

Back at sea with my imaginary BFF’s - The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian

He told the tale as he believed it. - The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Toxic masculinity and misogyny given free reign - The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Well, THAT was Totally Unexpected - Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

I like a good sober history book… - New England Bound by Wendy Warren

Meanwhile, inside the Brotherhood of Mutants - Forging Hephaestus (Villains Code #1) by Drew Hayes

Monsters and Humans doing Romeo and Juliet right - This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

Attack of the Bigfoot Werewolves - Wires and Nerve vol 1 by Marissa Meyer and Douglas Holgate

She had me at Anne Bronte saying “dickbags.” - Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Walk a Mile in Their Shoes - The Attack by Yasmina Khadra

I waited a few months, and it still made me sad - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

The Final Putsch: - The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril, The End by Lemony Snicket

All Tied Up - Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin

Write more, and quickly! - Foxglove Summer & The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

Prison Doesn’t Work – So What Do We Do? - Locked Down, Locked Out by Maya Schenwar

TFWOTSC & The Notorious RBG - Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman

A funny lady tells a sad story - One More Time by Carol Burnett

Beyond this point, there be dragons - The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

In which I rant about the TV show: - The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, and The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket

Palace Walk through an inverse mirror - Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz

Lion - A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley with Larry Buttrose

The Past Continues to be a Foe in the Chamber of Secrets - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, Jim Dale narrator

A thriller with a very dark theme - Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes

Things That Go Bump in the Night - Devolution Z by Julia McAdams, Editor

If you want to understand deja vu better, this might help… - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

One time my friend… - Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle

Furry, Non-Cannibalistic Llamas - The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley

The Big Little Lies That We Tell … - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Rachel really makes for the most hilariously inappropriate bridesmaid ever - For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison

Into the Ragged Meadow of My Soul - The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

Daniel Handler is no Tim Curry, but it’s actually ok. - The Miserable Mill and the Wide Window by Lemony Snicket

A story of untold heroes - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Bonus points for the clever title - Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order) by Bridget Quinn

Vampires Get Mid-life Ennui Too - Paranormal Bromance by Carrie Vaughn

Wonder-filled - Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Is it possible to outthink yourself? - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

“But. My hammer,” said Thor. - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Everything she has is secondhand. - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Lamar said the sink was broken. Sherrena said he broke the sink. - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Harry Potter Goes to Ms Peregrine’s - The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School by Kim Newman

Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance - The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Good skin care, if you care - Skin Cleanse: The Simple All-Natural Program for Clear, Calm, Happy Skin by Adina Grigore

It’s a Garden Implement, People - The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke

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