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

The Title Isn’t That Great, but the Book Rocks - Love Irresistibly by Julie James

This is Criminally Good - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Constraint is creativity - The Martian by Andy Weir

Might Does Not Make Right - The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Testing my hypothesis – or why I think Anna Kendrick rocks now - Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

Tale as Old as Time - Ravished by Amanda Quick

Done. And I miss these guys already…. - A Trick of the Light, The Beautiful Mystery, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

Maybe don’t read this one alone in the dark? - In A Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

A top pick for 2017…and it’s only January! - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

There is More Than One Way Into a Keep - Saving Grace by Julie Garwood

Death Sucks, That is All - The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

Key to My Heart - Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

Book 1: Malazan Book of the Fallen - Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

Need a Hero? El Deafo To the Rescue! - El Deafo by Cece Bell

Best Not to Get on Her Bad Side - The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

MLK: The Original Shade Thrower - Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

The Mother of Fantasy - The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

I was a coward. I went to the war. - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

‘Gilead’ Is A Balm For Trump’s America - 'Gilead' by Marilynne Robinson

As through a glass darkly … - Batman: The Black Mirror by Scott Snyder, Jock, Francesco Francavilla

“Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you’re mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.” - Outlander (Outlander #1) by Diana Gabaldon

For those looking to be terrified by something other than reality right now - Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Perspective matters. - They All Saw A Cat by Brendan Wenzel

“When the end came, it was beautiful.” - Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1) by James S. A. Corey

When a Monster Knocks at the Door of Your Soul - A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd by Patrick Ness

A time travel romance for the ages - Son of the Morning by Linda Howard

This one made me think - Shrill by Lindy West

“Ask Me About Bacon Time!” - We're All Damaged by Matthew Norman

Joe Hill is the Best Thing Stephen King Has Created - 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

By the Light of the Silvery Moon - Moonglow by Michael Chabon

Something’s afoot on the fjords - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

I’ve Perhaps Gone Gif Crazy. - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling psuedonym), narrated by Robert Glenister

“He ate little but drank much and vomited proportionally.” - A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess

We Are Family, I Got All My Sisters With Me - The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters by Nadiya Hussain

Learn from the past - March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

Culinary Catnip (for me, anyway) - The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin

February 27, 1960 was my first arrest. - March: Book 1 by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

Why aren’t you guys reading this series? - Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6) by James S.A. Corey

Six books in, and still not a weak link to be found in the series - Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse #6) by James S. A. Corey

Good book for the new year. Sort of. - A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

Run, Read This, And Go Tell That - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

Meeting Violence with Non-Violence - March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

A Girl Named Alf - The Duke of Pleasure by Elizabeth Hoyt

Paper Girls, Vol. 2 - Paper Girls, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang

This book might get me fired today….. - Kulti by Mariana Zapata

Old Childhood Favorite - Father Fox's Pennyrhymes by Clyde Watson, Wendy Watson (illustrator)

Venturing into Marvel Comics for the First Time - Patsy Walker aka Hellcat! Hooked on a Feline by Kate Leth, Brittany Williams, Natasha Allegri

They say you can’t go home again. - Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

I lure you in with pictures of Paul Newman, then meander through conflicted feelings about straight white male protagonists. - Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo

When a book is (way) more than just a book. - My Sisters the Saints by Colleen Carroll Campbell

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