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

To be young and all you need is a cold soda - Col-Dee by Jordan Crane

The demon that refuses to be exorcised - The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey

Women’s Rights From an Academic Perspective - From Outrage to Courage: The Unjust and Unhealthy Situation of Women in Poorer Countries and What They are Doing About It by Anne Firth Murray

King’s Hounds Series #2 - Oathbreaker by Martin Jensen

That’s the Sound of Ideologies Clashing - The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin

A Tail-Wagging Tale - Amazing Gracie by Dan Dye & Mark Beckloff

The beginning of an excellent series - The King's Hounds by Martin Jensen

The downstairs gets their turn - Longbourne by Jo Baker

Like a comic… but a novel - Vicious by V.E. Schwab

The Radiance of Tomorrow…aaaannnd Cannonball! - Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah

The Last Anniversary - The Last Anniversary by Lianne Moriarty

What Alice Forgot - What Alice forgot by Lianne Moriarty

An 11th Doctor Compendium - Doctor Who: Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand by Justin Richards, Mark Morris, George Mann, and Paul Finch

A gorgeous series of novellas on the clash between old and new India - The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai

Let The Great World Spin . . . Or Not - Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

Weighty but Worth It - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Dennis Lehane Didn’t Steer Me Wrong - Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda

If He’s Got Any Give in Him, Ain’t Nobody Found It Yet - Any Other Name by Craig Johnson

This Girl is on Fire - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Heading down the Norwegian crime story Hole - The Bat by Jo Nesbo

Finally a Philippa Gregory book I actually enjoyed - The Queen´s Fool by Philippa Gregory

Police Procedural in Dystopian Scotland - Rule 34 by Charles Stross

And now the humans are doing human things 🙁 - A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

No Miss Congenialities here. - Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

A book I read so long ago that I can’t remember if I even reviewed it. - A Spectacle of Corruption by David Liss

M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman - M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman

This Seemed an Appropriate Christmas Day Review - Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle

Living in the Aftermath - Hush by Jacqueline Woodson

The Most Bizarre City - The City and the City by China Mieville

The Silkworm – Rowling gets dark - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

More impressive work from Rowling - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Forget the past when it’s too terrible to face - Deerskin by Robin McKinley

Bone of the Rings! - Bone by Jeff Smith

Walk this way, so I can stab you in the head. - The Walking Dead Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman

What’s love got to do with it? - Fairest Vol. 1: Wide Awake by Bill Willingham

Once you go dragon, you wish for a wagon - Long Walks, Last Flights & Other Strange Journeys by Ken Scholes

Yeah, I was fine. F*cked in Extreme, as Ivy would say. - Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

Never trust button eyes. - Coraline by Neil Gaiman

I want to be Tiny Cooper’s BFF so bad. - Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

A magical flare brings ancient gods to Atlanta - Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

A Booker Winner that doesn’t disappoint - The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

A fascinating labyrinth of a novel - The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Like An Unshakeable Dream - Sleep Donation by Karen Russell

This is a story about post-colonial economic impotence–literally. - Xala by Ousmane Sembène

A Contemporary Mr. Rochester–with puppets! - Heroes Are My Weakness by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Nonchalantly haunting - The Stranger by Albert Camus

A young adult novel that everyone can read - Oranges for Christmas by Margarita Morris

Finally, a trilogy ends in a satisfying way - The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman

This is not the Dickens I was Looking for - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol by Brett Helquist

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