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

In pain of a heart forbade to fly. But you learn to say goodbye. - Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

Same as it ever was - The Cutting Season by Attica Locke

The cream of the crop - Wicked Sexy Liar (Wild Seasons #4) by Christina Lauren

Should be required reading for everyone - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

In which Fat Charlie answers the door and Spider encounters flamingos. - Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Surprised by Joy - Still Life by Louise Penny

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren’t choices at all. - 11/22/63 by Stephen King

If you broke Elena’s heart, Star Wars would spill out.” - Kindred Spirits by Rainbow Rowell

Reader, I loved this book. - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

“We evolved to respond with automatic care to the young, while old age repels, makes us afraid of our own mortality.” - Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley

It’s So Boyish and Messy I Want to Eat It - The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle

My every wish - Her Every Wish (The Worth Saga #1.5) by Courtney Milan

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story? - The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami

An Important Voice - A Life's Work: On Becoming A Mother by Rachel Cusk

Back Seat Driver - The Passenger by Lisa Lutz

An Embarrassment of Riches in a Debut Novel - We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel by Kaitlyn Greenidge

A Great Regency Romp with Underlying Seriousness - A Good Rogue is Hard to Find by Kelly Bowen

Nicholson Flew Over the Place Where Birds Roost - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Something different, something familiar, something magical. - The Raven Boys; The Dream Thieves; Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle #1-3) by Maggie Stiefvater

My tapeworm tells me what to do - Parasite by Mira Grant

Reader, I Murdered Him - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

A little Cannonball housekeeping, and a 5 star comic. - Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

“Reader, I murdered him,”or what if Jane Eyre got a shiv and wasn’t afraid to use it? - Jane Steele: A Novel by Lyndsay Faye

Like texts from your best friend. - Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

That is the tale; the rest is detail. - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Okay, Bea Pants, I read it! - A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

A jewel of a book - The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

A great addition to the Throne of Glass Series - The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J Maas

Treating People as Jesus Would Isn’t Easy - Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Humorous and Heartfelt Autobiography - The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson

Just Have to Remember to Embrace the Failure and Rely on the Imagination - Very Good Lives by J. K. Rowling

A beautifully done maybe-possession story. - A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Wall-E + The Fault in Our Stars? (A review in which I am right and my husband is stupid.) - Feed by M.T. Anderson

Melanie makes you love her, even if she maybe wants to eat you - The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Cary

Yet another rave review for Act Like It - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Ghosts of War - The Other Side of Midnight by Simone St. James

More terrifying than reanimated dead people - Zombie: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates

A Comforting Sequel to an Excellent Book - Us by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy

I read Romance now you guys - The Turner Series; The Brothers Sinister by Courtney Milan

Inescapable Artistry - Atonement by Ian McEwan

Don’t Take Your Education For Granted - I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

A new look at The Girl on Fire - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

One of my favorites, but definitely polarizing. - Atonement by Ian McEwan

The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits. - Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

The second Bill Hodges book is a spiritual successor to Misery. - Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges, #2) by Stephen King

Time Travel With Heart (and Heartbreak) - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Taking Care of Scandal - Duke of My Heart by Kelly Bowen

Mad Wargarita - All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

When You Don’t Have A Lot of Time Left - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

At least politicians take credit for their insults these days. The founding fathers used pseudonyms to attack each other in print. - The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone & Josh Neufeld

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