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

They’re Just These Two Guys, You Know? - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

One hell of a trilogy - The Captive Prince trilogy by C.S Pacat

Anne Boleyn and the Case of the Unreliable Narrator - The Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan Bordo

This book was an absolute punch in the gut. - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

A story of pain, suffering and regret - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

“Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present.” - The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver

“I was a smart-ass, born and raised. This had been my curse and would continue to be so.” - Naked by David Sedaris

“You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away” - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Football Is Back – And For Some Folks That’s Not A Good Thing - Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape by Jessica Luther

Shellfish Allergy Alert - Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm by Erin Byers Murray

Born This Way - Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley

I think this might be the last of the CSU series? - Freezer Burn: A C.S.U. Investigation by D. H. Dublin

Jumping on the bandwagon here. - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

I’m so here for kickass teenage girls - The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

The female characters in 9 to 5 would probably approve - The Assistants by Camille Perri

Going back in time would be less horrible than previously thought - How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life by Ruth Goodman

Adichie is one impressive role model - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I read book 1 of this series on vacation, so book 2 is giving me beach flashbacks. It’s so not about the beach. - Extinction Edge (The Extinction Cycle Book 2) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Behind all the scarves and rings and cigarettes is a nice grandfather who just wants to tell a story to his grandkids. - Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar by Keith Richards

Going Outside is Highly Overrated - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The troubled love story of Rhubarb and Orange Slice is one that I’m glad I read. - Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

No man here lives a charmed life. - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Control - All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

My, what big teeth you have. - The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

You Can be Anne Boleyn or Eleanor of Aquitaine, Just Don’t be Nero - It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright

I Trusted You, Faber….I Trusted You…. - The Crimson Petal and the White/ The Apple: Crimson Petal Stories by Michel Faber

Get mad, then get involved - Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries by Naomi Wolf

Have fun storming the castle! - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden

Hopeful dystopian, how about it? - The Fireman by Joe Hill

Much more enjoyable than expected - The Accident Man (Samuel Carver #1) by Tom Cain

Pants Waits for Next Book in Series - Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart

Put A Ring On It - All The Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Magic Ladies Run the World - Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

The Happiest Dystopia - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Other people read these books too, right? …right? - Emergency! True Stories from the Nation's ERs by Mark Brown

“He did not smile back, and somehow I feel like he’s been carrying my smile around in his breast pocket ever since.” - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

The dark side of the vault. - You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

The final L’Engle series in my reading adventure - Meet the Austins by Madeleine L'Engle

Being a Christian is much harder than Fox News tells you. - An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Caitlin_D, you’ll like this one - You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein

The reward of true service, surely, is to be asked for more. - League of Dragons: A Novel of Temeraire by Naomi Novik

Growing up Texas - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

Plumbing the Future and the Past for Thrills - 11.23.63 by Stephen King

Comfortable diversion, but the audio version is a must-listen. - How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

#2 for Jennifer Knight’s paranormal investigations - Time to Die (Detective Jennifer Knight Crime Thriller Series Book 2) by Caroline Mitchell

Book 2 for the CSU - Blood Poison: A C.S.U. Investigation by D.H. Dublin

In which I try not to let my personal pickiness ruin a good book - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

I’ll forgive the rather tortured “leftovers” metaphor, because this was a great read - The Thing About Leftovers by C.C. Payne

“Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.” - Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat #3) by Joanne Harris

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” - The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

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