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

Civil War Horror Up Close and Personal - Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead

Finally finished this damn series! - Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett

I’m Still Mad About Bridget - Mad About the Boy (Bridget Jones #3) by Helen Fielding

Feminist Fairy Tales Are Always Acceptable - Cinder (Book One of the Lunar Chronicles) by Marissa Meyer

“Odd”, Indeed - Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas #1) by Dean Koontz

This made me love Tiny Cooper even more - Hold Me Closer: the Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan

A post-Arthurian allegory on the state of the world - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiburo

A Million Times Better Than the Movie - Jumper by Steven Gould

Darkplaces - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Pregnancy and dissertations don’t go together. - The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge

A love letter to Wills and Kate. And we all rejoiced. - The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

Pretty much wall to wall action in this one - Honour's Knight by Rachel Bach

Station Eleven Or, Why Crazies are Always With Us - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Problems of retirement, friendship, and loneliness. - Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

I really need for this book to work - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever by Marie Kondo

“He held my hand and it was the hand of the man I had married, lost and found again.”.” - Whisper of Jasmine and City of Jasmine by Deanna Raybourn

“I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.” - Night of a Thousand Stars by Deanna Raybourn

Everyone alive on earth is here, cheating death at every minute. - Sarah Manguso by The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend

The saga of Saga. - Saga, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

What makes a ‘perfect soldier’, and how does that translate into a ‘marriageable man’? - The Soldier by Grace Burrowes

I am sure there are other versions of happiness, but this one is mine. - It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario

So nice to catch up with old book friends - Twelfth Night by Deanna Raybourn

I’d Follow Him Down That Road - The Road Beneath My Feet by Frank Turner

Legitimate Family Drama - Inside the O'Briens: A Novel by Lisa Genova

Jane Austen Meets Harry Potter - Sorcery and Cecilia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

A Change of Pace for a Formulaic Genre - Falling Star by Patricia Moyes

A Lovely and Sincere Carla Kelly Historical Romance? Shocking! - The Wedding Journey by Carla Kelly

As Foretold by James Cameron - Predator One by Jonathan Maberry

“I learned your books. Burned them into my mind. In case the firemen come to town.” - Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

She Chose Her Own Last Name - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Feed me, Seymour… - Feed by M.T. Anderson

You’re just as creepy as I remember, Mr. King… - The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub

You dirty egg-suckin’ dog! - The Goon --Nothin' But Misery by Eric Powell

Beware the Creepy Carnival - The Dark Carnival by Various

Hulk and Iron Man have a bromance, plus some other stuff. - Avengers Assemble, Vol. 2: Science Bros by Kelly Sue DeConnick

This book will creep the sh*t out of you - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Pardon Me, There’s a Girl in my Space Battle Book - By Force of Arms by William C. Dietz

Oscar Bait - Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Love the book, but frustrated this series is so formulaic. - Street Magic (The Circle Opens, #2) by Tamora Pierce

I’m a sucker for a fabulous musical. - Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Bunnies, whizpoppers and dog costume parties - A Fine Romance by Candice Bergen

Tom Petty Got it Wrong, Choosing is the Hardest Part - Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

Gandalf’s Cousins From Way Out of Town - Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy - Wizards by Edited by Isaac Asimov

Five Short and Creepy Tales of Terror - Dark Screams: Volume One by Stephen King, Kelley Armstrong, Bill Pronzini, Ramsey Campbell, Simon Clark

Trench poets breaking my heart - Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics by Chris Duffy

A Romance Because Mrs. Julien and Malin are Kind Beyond Measure (no, that’s not the plot) - What I Did for a Duke. by Julie Anne Long

Sticky, sweet, all-consuming fluff. - Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare

Pass the Sun Tan Lotion - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

McKinley does it again - Shadows by Robin McKinley

Stephen King does a crime thriller. - Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges, #1) by Stephen King

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