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

Giving Rebirth is Not For the Weak - Jasmine: A Novel by Bharati Mukherjee

What if Sam Winchester didn’t have a brother? - Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

Romeo and Juliet with zombies, oh my! - Warm Bodies: A Novel by Isaac Marion

Five Ways I am like Mindy Kaling (And Two Ways I am not) - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

Son: A Beautiful End to a Beautiful Quartet - Son by Lois Lowry

Jane Austen meets Jonathan Strange and we all win. - Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

Meatballs and murder - The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri

No, the heroine is NOT a burlesque streetwalker, despite what the cover may imply - Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster

Family secrets and mid-life crisis - A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay

A marriage picked apart. - Revolutionary road by Richard Yates

“Three syllables and three thousand memories.” - For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

Charlie Brown Grows Up and Moves to Canada - The Shipping News: A Novel by Annie Proulx

Bleak and more Bleak - Dear Life by Alice Munro

A Gem of a Fable - Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord

There is magic in the weaving. - Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic, #1) by Tamora Pierce

“When you keep quiet, people fill in their own most intelligent thoughts on your behalf.” - The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan

The Moment I Fell in Love (with a series) - Dead Witch Walking; The Good, The Bad, and The Undead; Every Witch Way but Dead by Kim Harrison

Our own worst enemy - Cibola Burn (The Expanse #4) by James S. A. Corey

Vampires, and vampires, and more vampires - Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy Book 3) by Richelle Mead

If you go into the woods today, beware the bunnies (and all the other animals) - Wicked as They Come by Delilah S. Dawson

A highly enjoyable holiday from hell - The Vacationers by Emma Straub

Bring It On was never like this…. - Dare Me by Megan Abbott

Made for Music - Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

An intriguing international crime thriller - Black Star Nairobi by Mukoma wa Ngugi

“Everywhere’s been where it is ever since it was first put there. It’s called geography.” - Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

Magic and Fantasy, Gore and Romance Abound in these Ilona Daniels series - Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

Amazing Amy is a “Cool Girl” - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

A publicist and a drummer go from friends to lovers - Rock Courtship by Nalini Singh

You can never go wrong with puppy cannons. - The Brothers Sinister Series by Courtney Milan

Curtsies, corsets, tea parties and spies - Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks - Evil Genius (Genius #1) by Catherine Jinks

Joyland by Stephen King - Joyland by Stephen King

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder

A great book that should be a MINDBLOWING book. - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Interplanetary megastellar hydrostatic, there’s no gravity between us, OUR LOVE IS AUTOMATIC. - Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4) by James S.A. Corey

A lovely book about some things that are not lovely at all. - The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell

An ode to growing up (on Mango Street) - The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

How to Survive the Unsurvivable - The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer

What if the NAZIs had won? - The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Let’s dismantle the patriarchy with Miss Teen Dream Spirit! - Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Revisiting a sci-fi classic. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Looks like M. Night Shyamalan has some competition - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Do We Determine Our Destiny? - Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

Religion, Identity, and Flossing - To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris

Hunting down God with a preacher and a vampire - Preacher Book Two by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

A Little Too Close to Home - The Circle by Dave Eggers

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. - No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Fantasy Novel Takes Aim at Slavery - Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews

“It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.” - The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman

Unluck of the Irish - The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue by Edna O'Brien

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