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

“Every time we get a chance to get ahead, they move the finish line.” - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Doomsday Book - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

I Miss Paul Newman - Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo

Harry Potter and the Curse of Expectation - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne

You can keep my future, it will probably do you more good than me - Sunbolt, The Bone Knife by Intisar Khanani

Caution – Difficult to Put Down - Resurrection Express by Stephen Romano

The Stars Are Out Tonight - Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

There is nothing wrong with being scared. It only means that something important is at stake - Of Dreams and Rust by Sarah Fine

Whooo boy… - Big Brother by Lionel shriver

Carrie Fisher Can Write. Damn. - Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher

I’d miss pants too Therese - Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneil

To The Extreme - Confessions by Kanae Minato

Known in your neck of the woods as ‘Midnight Riot’ - Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

“You can’t rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.” - Around the Way Girl: A Memoir by Taraji P Henson

Forgiveness Lives Alone and Far Off Down the Road - Self-Help by Lorrie Moore

Very Hot Romance - Suddenly One Summer (FBI/US Attorney) by Julie James

Still No Idea What Is Going On - Jessica Jones (2016-) #2 by Brian Bendis

Twin Swap - False Colours by Georgette Heyer

We don’t need no water - The Fireman by Joe Hill

“…do something to a cadaver, it will do something back to you.” - Three Moments of an Explosion by China Mieville

“Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock” - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

My Baby’s Got a Secret - The Secret by Julie Garwood

A Man Called Ove makes me read an actual book. - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

It’s a Lot to Think About - We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Great for Kamala, not so great for Carol. - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 6: Civil War II by G. Willow Wilson

“Fool that I am,” said he, “that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself.” - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Death Doesn’t Discriminate - Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan Mcguire

Escape into a Fiction of the Past - What Happens in London by Julia Quinn

“Color our world blackened” - The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) by Brandon Sanderson

Going back in time - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

I swear, Ian Rankin, if you kill John Rebus, I will come after you. - Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin

“It’s so much easier to accept your feminine role in this world if you don’t struggle.” - Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill

Every memoir offers something new - Swallow the Ocean by Laura M. Flynn

So Glad to be Done With This Trilogy - Moonspun Magic by Catherine Coulter

Second Book in Magic Trilogy Better Than the First - Calypso Magic by Catherine Coulter

“Just once, Ofelia would have liked people to see her as she was, not as their ideas painted her.” - Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate stone on the forefinger of an alderman…or at least that’s what Simon LeBon told me. - Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

Just who is running this show? - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

An Elevator to Heaven - The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

Makes me want to go to the South of France - A Crown of Bitter Orange by Laura Florand

Kicking ass and taking over the world - Breath of Fire (Kingmaker Chronicles #2) by Amanda Bouchet

Who Are You? No, Really, I’m Asking. - Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Fun Thriller - In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

Cats are Adorable Jerks - I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano

Eh, You Can’t Win Them All - Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen

Spontaneously Combusting Seniors – it could happen! - Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer

You deserved a Wakanda that cherished you. - Black Panther: The Nation Under Our Feet, Vol. 1 by Ta-Nahisi Coates

“Things are strongest where they’re broken.” - Bury Your Dead (Inspector Gamache #6) by Louise Penny, narrated by Ralph Cosham

Life Without the Necromancer - The Fall of the House Cabal by Jonathan Howard

Yer a Wizard Harry! - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

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