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

A Sweet Love Story about pre-WWII New York City - North River by Pete Hamill

An Architect and a Serial Killer During a Fair - The Devil in the White City by Larson, Erik

This dragon sure ain’t Pete’s (and that’s a good thing!) - Dragon Bound (Book 1 of The Elder Races Series) by Thea Harrison

Fans’s Attempts to Put Order to GRR Martin’s Saga of Fire & Ice - The World of Fire and Ice by G.R.R. Martin, Elia Garcia, JR, and Linda Antonsson

A very satisfying sequel to a book I really love - First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen

Adventure writ small - Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen

Three bad guys, no waiting - Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey

Two Novels, One Book - Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld

Desolation! Pink dragonflies flitting above the graves. - You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming

A complex, gender-neutral protagonist in a quasi-dystopian murder mystery? Sign me up! - Lock In by John Scalzi

The view from Jeaneatte’s window was, frankly, shite. - Vanilla Bright Like Eminem: Stories by Michel Faber

Knock knock knocking on heaven’s Door - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Spoiler: She dies at the end. - Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

If this book was a rollercoaster, it would be the Wicked Twister at Cedar Point. Trust me, the comparison is impeccable. - Golden Son (Red Rising, #2) by Pierce Brown

The Best Way To Get Tanked Up On Zombies - Tankbread 2 by Paul Mannering

Insider trading is illegal fyi - Trade Me by Courtney Milan

Like a whiff of my mother’s perfume. - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Get ready for a lock-in from Hell. - Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

If you like your romances dark… - Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

Contemporary Romance Made of Roses and Deft Escapism - Once Upon a Rose by Laura Florand

I Kinda Wish Cormoran and I Were A Thing - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

About that time I hung a mannequin from the power line… - Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison

I really missed out, not reading this as a youth. - A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1) by Ursula K Le Guin

The Woods Are Lovely, Dark And Deep - The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

I really could use a pair of magic jeans myself sometimes - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

A Gentleman Bastard Is Still A Bastard - The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

So much better than the film - Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Like High School, all over again. - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

This is a situation for mindless violence and brute force. First good news I’ve had all day - Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

Courtney Milan does it again. Now with New Adult - Trade Me by Courtney Milan

If you go into the woods today… - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

In Our Family Portrait, We Look Pretty Happy - The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee

Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? - Bolt by Dick Francis

Down in the Meat - BZRK Series by Michael Grant

Chinese science-fiction bestseller–epic in scope, intimate in detail. - The Three-Body Problem (Three-Body, #1) by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

Thoreau’s Postmodern Echo - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

“Annoy, tiny blonde one. Annoy like the wind.” - Veronica Mars: Mr. Kiss and Tell by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Grant

Continuing my Virginia Woolf love - Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar

The Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton - Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

Read it because it will make you sad and angry - The Book of Unknown Americans: A Novel by Cristina Henriquez

It fills my heart up and gets louder - Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

Zen master from the Pyrenees? - the chalk circle man by Fred Vargas

French twist - Murder in the Marais by Cara Black

Norwegian expats in Bangkok - Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo

Kvothe Grows Up in Kingkiller Chronicles, Volume 2 - The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

A Not So Abnormal Heart - Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

Secrets, Voyeurism, Alcohol, and Jealousy - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Hey I’ve never seen the sun come up in the west - The Road Taken Anyway by Central Arkansas Speculative Fiction Writers’ Group

Like Gone Girl but more twisted - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Per aspera ad astra. - Golden Son by Pierce Brown

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