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

Travel and Food Through the Eyes of Bourdain - A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain

More About Katrina - Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Okay. - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

No Dwarves Around This Time - Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair - Cress by Marissa Meyer

“Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?” - Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Mr. Wickham was so much worse than I ever imagined. - Longbourn by Jo Baker

An Eye into the War - The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

In the End, it Was the Sunday Afternoons He Couldn’t Cope With - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

All Things are Fundamentally Interconnected - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

There are all kind of ghosts in this life, and this book has most of them. - Joyland by Stephen King

On Siegecraft, Skaa, and Badass Brunettes - The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

C’mon, Luv. Let’s Go Do Druggy Sex Magic! - The Magician King by Lev Grossman

“We’re not meant for happiness, you and I.” - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

“…the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn’t working.” - The Radleys by Matt Haig

One must avoid dinner parties of 14… - Mrs. Seely's Cook Book by Mrs Lida Seely

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can… - The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

It’s All So Familiar - Halloween Party by RL Stine

Delightful and Difficult Thoughts on Faith - Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott

A Thrilling Mystery Amid U.S.-China Relations - The Interior by Lisa See

Traveling Mercies - Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott

Wish I Could Be… Part of His New World? - Lucifer, Book 2 by Mike Carey

And we’re back to zombies… - Rise Again by Ben Tripp

Remembering what had been forgotten… - Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Antiques Roadshow, meet Murder She Wrote - Dealing in Murder by Elaine Flinn

I’m not sure using kids as spies is a great strategy, but since we did it, we might as well hear about it - Ariel Bradley, Spy For General Washington by Lynda Durrant (Illustrations by Joe Rossi(

“When I try now to sort out who knew what and who knew nothing, who knew everything and who was a fraud, I have to stop and give it up, it makes my head spin.” - Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

I’m Only a Decade Behind the Crowd on This - Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Satanic Rituals, the ’20s and a Haunted House - The House of Lost Souls by F.G. Cottam

That other old epic - Beowulf by trans. Seamus Heaney

The End of a Dystopian Trilogy - Dust by Hugh Howey

In not Out of Africa - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

On Allomancy, Tyranny, and Coming of Age - Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Trilogy Tour #3: Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne #1 - The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley

Brave New World – Review #10 for AamilTheCamel - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

No Way To Title This Without Spoilers - A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire Book 4 by George R. R. Martin

agorafabulous - agorafabulous by Sara benicasa

Welcome to your brightly-colored, candy-coated nut punch. - Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang

Conclusion to the Legend Trilogy - Champion by Marie Lu

Shovel Ready - Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh

Who were the homestead wives, who were the gold rush brides? - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Hindsight is bittersweet, but the facts are hard - Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia Abbott

Ya gotta pay the rent - Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp

#8 One of those murders where the person deserves it - Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

Fewer demons, more elves in this one - The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

What happened to Harriet De Luce? - The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley

How I Live Now - How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

Also, he’s totally a closeted lush. - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Mad about Milan - Unlocked by Courtney Milan

February Sci Fi - The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

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