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

“All signs point toward your murder.” - How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) by Kristen Perrin

Also, it’s a crime that no one in the book or in the acknowledgements noted that this is also the plot of High Fidelity. - Exes & O's by Amy Lea

Time traveling is for nerds. - Blackout (All Clear, #1) by Connie Willis

Love Lies Bleeding - Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

The Fox Warrior in us all - The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha

Sometimes you have to really f*ck something up before you can fully appreciate it. - The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen

The Luck of the Irish - Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

Screw Your Courage to the Sticking-Place - Monster Movie! by Chuck Wendig

“I think Jesus would like better bands, you know?” - Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith by Russ Ramsey

Getting the Band Back Together - Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

Beyond the Wall - Berlin Game by Len Deighton

The Book of Eight Summers Ago - Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

A very interesting fantasy debut. - The Last Phi Hunter by Salinee Goldenberg

I picked the colorful images but there is a variety that you’ll find inside - Hockney: A Graphic Life (BioGraphics) by Simon Elliott

You’ll never look at a cinnamon roll the same way - Off Sides by Andi Jaxon

Not Your Normal Turgenev - On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev

“And what about a person’s life? How do you make a map of that? The borders people draw between themselves. The scars left along the ground of one’s heart.” - Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Oh the weather outside is frightful! - Season of Love by Helena Greer

She had even vaguely felt that it reflected ill upon her to have attracted an assassin of such incompetence, however grateful for that lack of skill she might be. - The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray

Just kiss already! - The Late Mrs. Willougby by Claudia Gray

Anita de Monte Laughs Last: shedding light on a forgotten artist - Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez

Simple Yet Helpful Introduction - Tell Me Something About Buddhism by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

He went abruptly still. “Would you rather I stay dressed?” “Please don’t,” I blurted. - All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows

All I’ve wanted these past few days is to get as close to you as you’ve somehow gotten to me. - Take Me Home by Melanie Sweeney

Deliberate or Cruel - Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

Tragically beautiful - The Naked Tree by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

A really long review about two books but I think worth the read - Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang; Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi

You’re not paranoid if everyone is actually trying to kill you. - A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles Book 1) by Foz Meadows

Worth it for the illustrations alone, but there is SO MUCH more here. - This Book Will Make You Kinder: An Empathy Handbook by Henry James Garrett

Muffins & Murder - Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

Job burn out takes a turn for the literal - A Witch’s Guide To Burning by Aminder Dhaliwal

“God, if she caught feelings, she was going to have to kick her own ass.” - Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

Historical Fiction With Fantastical Flair - Babel by R. F. Kuang

Baking with Pride means lots of food coloring - Baking with Pride by Janusz Domagala

Flavia de Luce, a menace to murderers - Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Brandley

A Most Agreeable Murder: pride and prejudice meets Miss Marple - A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales

“Imagination is hungry, and needs to be fed.” - You Like It Darker by Stephen King

“I know something no one else in the world knows.” - The Forever Witness by Edward Humes

“Power doesn’t have to be the way the regent and your rebels make it be . . . Power can be looking after people. Keeping them safe, instead of putting them into danger.” - The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1) by Tasha Suri

“There was something wrong with Gaea Station. There had always been something wrong with Gaea Station.” - Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

“There’s a whole universe in her and I would be so lucky to live in it, explore it. Over and over.” - Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

“A peace based on injustice is a treacherous sleep whose waking is death. Your honor lies in waking out of it.” - The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore

Player of Pearl - Earl the Pearl: My Story by Earl Monroe

There’s no predicting when a heart will open up - Change of Heart by Kate Canterbary

People and things we hold dear - Loose Threads: A Story about Me, Mom, and Dad by Airien Ludin; Boots by Elizabeth Pulsford

Red Kites and Black Birds - The Pebble: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Marius Marcinkevičius

Gender nonconformity Pride - Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier

Explosive wonders - Volcanoes by Nell Cross Beckerman

“Only living here wasn’t exactly turning out to be normal.” - Night of the Living Queers by Shelly Page and Alex Brown

Here you have a twist on the Oaxacan, which is a twist on the old-fashioned, which itself is a twist on the Holland gin, and so it goes, on and on and on, all the way back to the beginning. - Triple Sec by T.J. Alexander

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