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

Encyclopedia Brown Your Pants - Bait Dog by Chuck Wendig

Sawed-Off Nancy Drew - Shotgun Gravy by Chuck Wendig

Penny Red - Unspeakable Things: Sex Lies and Revolution by Laurie Penny

Ripperific fun - The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

And so it begins - The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1) by Stephen King

The Power of Persuasion - Lexicon by Max Barry

Life is a highway - Sidecar by Amy Lane

Mindbending - Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

There’s a New Web-Slinging Hero in Town - Silk #1 by Robbie Thompson, Stacey Lee

An appeal to Americans to shake off the chains of economic injustice and complacency - Workin' on a Chain Gang by Walter Mosley

The space opera I never knew I needed - Cordelia's Honor (Vorkosigan Saga Omnibus: Shards of Honor / Barrayar) by Lois McMaster Bujold

Another Pregnancy Book I Would Actually Buy for Someone - The Mommy Doc's Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy and Birth by Yvonne Bohn, Allison Hill, Alane Park

He Really Does Seem So Sweet - I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short

The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us - East of West: Volumes 1-4 by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta

I really want to see the staged version of Hold Me Closer - Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

If only Dragos had looked and sounded like Benedict Cumberbatch - Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison

A lost empire is still lost. - The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Criss Cross is gonna make you jump jump - Criss Cross (Psycop Book 2) by Jordan Castillo Price

Because There’s Enough Reality Already - Get In Trouble by Kelly Link

A Book for Women’s History Month - Almost Famous Women: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman

How do you decide if someone is human? Or, Why I love Urban Fantasy - Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews

A Novel in the Swingin’ Sixties - Funny Girl by Nick Hornby

An epic fantasy anthology, cherry-picked from other sources. - Epic: Legends of Fantasy by ed. John Joseph Adams

Every Nurse Has a Poop Story or 12 - Becoming Nursey by Kati Kleber

The woods are just trees, the trees are just wood. - In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French

A superfluous review - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Liars, psychics, the plague - Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

A sweet story about non-romantic love, involving a magical plague. - Briar's Book (Circle of Magic, #4) by Tamora Pierce

I waited over 3 months for this book to become available, the wait was TOTALLY worth it - Yes Please by Amy Poehler

NPH + CYOA = Pretty OK - Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris

A return to form - Murder in the Rue de Paradis by Cara Black

An immigrant family beset with secrets - Across a Green Ocean by Wendy Lee

Ish Is Starting to Get Real - The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson

Egyptian Nights - Cairo by G. Willow Wilson

A let-down after the first book, but still pretty good nonetheless. - Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2) by Joe Abercrombie

The Advantages of Disadvantages (and the Disadvantages of Advantages) - David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

Chasing Ghosts - Murder in Montmartre by Cara Black

Hot Pockets 2: The Hot-Pocketing - Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan

Lust, deception, secrets, Highlanders, and a badass heroine. - Deception of a Highlander by Madeline Martin

Caution: Do not read this book at bedtime - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Like Shakespeare – but written by someone alive! - The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

The Secret Lives of Sharks - Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessel

Is there such a thing as a jazz vampire? - Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

Nice Guys and Bad Boys in Victorian England - Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

A snapshot of a family unit in crisis, a peek behind the Ikea curtain and the idea of pristine Scandinavian life. - The Winter War by Philip Teir

Neil Gaiman treats us to another assortment of strange and haunting stories in his third collection. - Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

If you read this, see if you can spot the character DWJ based off of her friend Neil Gaiman. - Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones

Escapist romance with roses instead of food - Once Upon a Rose by Laura Florand

It’s a great shame that most of you won’t be able to read this book yet - Odinsbarn (Odin's Child) by Siri Pettersen

He May Have a Moving Castle, but She Has a Magic Stick! - Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

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