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

Rainbow Rowell meets Star Wars. - Kindred Spirits by Rainbow Rowell

Not quite what I was expecting, but I like! - Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

I wanna be in the room where it happens - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

Talk less, smile more - Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

A Quirky, Clean Romantic Comedy - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Oh, just grow up, Marianne! - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

What Do You Mean We Don’t Agree On How To Run Triage? - Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

A Busy Season - One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

Utterly Delightful Read - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

This is not my first apocalypse - Swan Song by Robert McCammon

If Oscar Wilde was a Badass Victorian Woman - Soulless (Parasol Protectorate #1) by Gail Carriger

I Didn’t Hate It But You Might - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

A love letter to the lovers of letters - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

And the medal for consistency goes to Ilona Andrews - Fate's Edge (The Edge #3) by Ilona Andrews

A Book is a Door and the Door leads Home - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

From Appalachia to Yankeedom, This Land Was Made From Eleven Nations - American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard

Rub-a-dub-dub 9 Men in a Tub - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

As good as gold - Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson

No more for the girl next door - Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg

A historical romance with a treasure hunt - It's In His Kiss by Julia Quinn

The Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

“Lads” have never seemed so unpleasant. - Among the Thugs by Bill Buford

Beautiful Chaos in a Ballgown - You're The Earl That I Want by Kelly Bowen

Colony at the Edge of the Universe - Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey

A Milan novella. What more do you need to know? Go read and enjoy! - Her Every Wish by Courtney Milan

“The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.” - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by Stephanie Perkins, Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de la Pena, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor, Kiersten White

The OTHER Chuck Norris - The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

Thank you, Faintingviolet! - Kindred Spirits by Rainbow Rowell

It was one of the most reviewed books of CBR7, so I decided I had to read it - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Going to America - A Lady's Guide to Skirting Scandal by Kelly Bowen

A Gender-Bending Reign In Ancient Egypt - The Woman Who Would Be King by Kara Cooney

A mostly good story with a lovely soundtrack - Tess Gerritsen by Playing with Fire

The stranger & the pool - Hurt People by Cote Smith

“The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.” - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

Ok, I think I Get It Now - Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

A Frump, a Virago, a Maneater, and a Manipulator Walk Into a Book - To Catch a Spinster, To Tame a Dragon, To Wed the Widow, To Tempt the Saint by Megan Bryce

I mean, but really he’s just saying what we’re all thinking, right? - Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes

Asteroids! Aliens! Apocalypse! Atari! (OK, no Atari, that’s just me) - Fear the Sky by Stephen Moss

“The world is available to us, but that may be the problem.” - Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg

A romance with a know-it-all - Dukes Prefer Blondes by Loretta Chase

Monkeys with a Microwave - Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey

Dissension in the book club - The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway

The Wide Brown Land - In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

I want more! - Kindred Spirits by Rainbow Rowell

Dear Marissa Meyer, THIS is how you end a dystopian sci-fi series - Morning Star by Pierce Brown

The playboy and the science nerd - Beautiful Player by Christina Lauren

Short But Very Sweet - Kindred Spirits by Rainbow Rowell

Steal this book. - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

A historical romance with a dead wife, angry brothers and badly behaved plot moppets - To Sir Phillip, with Love by Julia Quinn

La Diva Tarabotti returns to her home planet. - Blameless (The Parasol Protectorate, #3) by Gail Carriger

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