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

We Get to See Early Poirot and Hastings in This One - The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

Love and other strangenesses - Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

America was born in the crucible of the civil war, and Ulysses Grant was the avatar for its renewed life. - The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses S. Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands

So now I feel like an underachiever - Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

You are saving their lives for a life not worth living - Bird Box by Josh Malerman

In America the quirk was that people were things. - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Power of Words - Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

I laughed exactly one time. - Tears we cannot stop by Michael Eric Dyson

Pink fart cloud and Hellcat save the day - Patsy Walker aka Hellcat! Vol.2: Don't Stop Me-Ow by Katie Leth and Brittney L. Williams

We Could All So Easily Be Wrecked - Trainwreck; The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why by Sady Doyle

A rainy and murdery winter pick-me-up - Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason

Lately it Occurs to Me. . . - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Summer, Baba Yaga, and a were-house - Summer in Orcus by T. Kingfisher

The Obelisks are so much cooler than previously thought! - The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Book 2) by N. K. Jemisin

Never Doubt Rainbow Rowell…OR Scootsa1000! - Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

Now You See Him…. - The Vanished Man by Jeffrey Deaver

Distortion for the effect of design - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Reckoning for Bosch - Echo Park by Michael Connelly

Nothing from the past can make me anything less than whoever it is I wish to be. - Between the Devil and the Duke by Kelly Bowen

The stupidity we need right now, but maybe not the stupidity we deserve - The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore

Race with a Capital R - The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

A Beautiful Little Story About Selflessness - Little Blue Truck by Alice Shertle

If Neil Gaiman reads it, you can get used to any name - Stardust by Neil Gaiman

We don’t need no words - a boy, a dog and a frog by Mercer Mayer

Can you think more expansively and connect the dots? Dave Gray says you can. - Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think by Dave Gray

“Philosophically speaking, truth is a slippery concept and one should always be alive to nuance.” - The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London/Peter Grant #6) by Ben Aaronovitch

Nevertheless, She Persisted - A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel by Melissa Fleming

I’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl… - The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel

But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you, not even close, Not even a little bit, not even at all. - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Lucy’s Wedding - Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley

Ms. Marvel strikes again! - Ms. Marvel, Volume 3: Crushed by G. Willow Wilson Takashi Miyazaw, and Elmo Bondoc

So you wanna play with magic? - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Persuasion - Persuasion by Jane Austen

Home Is Where the Heart Is… - A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

Wizard and Glass Comes to Life in This Graphic Novel - Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #3 (of 7) by Robin Furth

Loved This Take on Old Man Logan - Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Vol. 1: Berzerker by Jeff Lemire

Beginning of His Journey - Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #2 by Robin Furth

The Beginning of our Gunslinger - Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1 (of 7) by Robin Furth

Just stop what you’re doing and go get your hands on this book. Now. - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Bosch Does It Again - The Closers (Harry Bosch #11) by Michael Connelly

Sharp as a Razor - Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley

An excellent book with a few concerns. - Underground Airlines by Ben Winters

Deliciously scary graphic stories. - Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

Retirement is for the Birds - Lost Light by Michael Connelly

“Stop the logging, stop the lies. Save the monarch butterflies.” - Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Harry Bosch, Avenging Angel - Angels Flight by Michael Connelly

The Bedding is Made From Our Bodies - Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I tried to keep this review clean. I failed. - Back Story by David Mitchell

Trunk Music (Harry Bosch #5) - Trunk Music by Michael Connelly

A Hard Man is Good to Find - The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

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