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

This book is a delight. - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Banality of Racism - Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Exactly to my taste - Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense by Bob Holmes

My first celebrity memoir, and a well chosen one at that. - Back Story by David Mitchell

Time For A Different Kind of White Rage - White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, Ph. D.

Just another old reread of Faulkner for this Veets - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

This is just an entirely brilliant novel - Warlock by Oakley Hall

A 5 star book with a major caveat. - Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

Player One is Ready! - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Are you a good monster or a bad monster? - My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

We are all Sansa Stark….and I probably went too far in my Cannonball - A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

A last year’s book revisited, with splendid results - LaRose by Louise Erdrich

A powerful and devastating Shakespeare adaptation - New Boy by Tracy Chevalier

A truly wonderful book hangover. - Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet

A theology master class in Tolkien. Just my style. - The Battle for Middle-Earth by Fleming Rutledge

To catch a killer… - Whoever Fights Monsters by Robert K Ressler

Not Your Grandmother’s Baba Yaga - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Would You Know if You Lived in Captivity? - The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne

A fantastic farrago of evil - Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

A Bunch of Stephen King Re-reads - Rita Hayworth and the Shawkshank Redemption, The Body, The Long Walk, The Running Man by Stephen King

“And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we’d end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.” - a piece of the world by Christina Baker Kline

“Spunky English girl overcomes impossible odds and outsmarts heathen villains” - Don't Tempt Me by Loretta Chase

Big Suspense, Big Time Fun, Little Criticism - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Slasher Girls and Monster Boys - Slasher Girls and Monster Boys by Edited by April Genevieve Tucholke

“That is why this universe is impossible: because all the good things are impossible to keep. The universe always takes them away…” - Geekerella by Ashley Poston

As Excellent as Was Promised - Matilda by Roald Dahl

Oldies But Goodies - The Weiser Book of The Fantastic and Forgotten by Judika Illes

Some moments are beyond imagination. - The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower VII) by Stephen King

Constant Craving - Umami by Laia Jufresa

Not Just Another Pretty Face. - Unfinished: A Graphic Novel Of Marilyn Monroe by Elizabeth Periale

But I’m a Cheerleader - Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. Johnston

Wow, this brings back some stuff - The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Road redux - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Dealing with forbidden desires - A Gentleman's Position by KJ Charles

Historical Fiction that Feels Real - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Though She Walks Through the Valley of Death - Deathweave by Cary G. Osborne

The Granite Mouse - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

I Like This Book so Much it Made Me Angry - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

I loved this book - Code Name: Verity by Elizabeth Wein

He’s Not A Hero, But He’s the Best Man for the Job - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

You’ll write many stories, but every one will be to some greater or lesser degree about this story. - Song of Susannah by Stephen King

On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves Or lose our ventures. - On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee

“No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.” - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Adorable and Full of Meaning - Lobster is the Best Medicine by Liz Climo

Apocalypse literature at its best - The Fireman by Joe Hill

The Persistence of Memory - Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Second Time Around - Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

Hot Off the Presses - Crimson Son 2: Motherland by Russ Linton

Perverted Ghosts - Spindrift by Amy Rae Durreson

How many ways can I say this is awesome? - Lobster Is the Best Medicine by Liz Climo

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