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

Stories Can Save Us - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Ms. Adichi Has a Dream - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi

Someone read this and talk to me about it, now! - A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

I cannot even begin to describe the plot of this one - Reamde by Neal Stephenson

What Obi-Wan Did - Kenobi by John Jackson Miller

Guys. GUYS. GUYYYYYSSS. - The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6; Wax and Wayne, #3) by Brandon Sanderson

A Fearsome Kind of Love - The Door by Magda Szabo

Short stories by a master - The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

Hell Hath No Fury… - The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

“Killing” Kids is Only Okay Between the Ages of 13-18 - Unwind by Neal Shusterman

A good dose of the warm and fuzzies - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

It took forever and was over in an instant - The Passage by Justin Cronin

I’m super digging this series. - Shadows of Self (Mistborn, #5; Wax and Wayne, #2) by Brandon Sanderson

I was into this before Hipsters ruined my ability to revel in my early adoption of a pop culture staple. - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin

Dammit, Brandon Sanderson, write a bad book once in a while! - The Alloy of Law (Mistborn #4; Wax and Wayne #1) by Brandon Sanderson

Every moment points toward the aftermath - Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Mallard

This book was faintingviolet-nip - The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell

Dukes prefer dressmakers - SIlk is for Seduction by Loretta Chase

Girls in Pants - Duchess By Night by Eloisa James

My Kinda Horror - Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

The Spice Must Flow - Dune by Frank Herbert

The beauty and the basketball player - Blonde Date by Sarina Bowen

A college romance with truly monumental amounts of angst - The Year We Hid Away by Sarina Bowen

Getting out of Flint: a teen boy’s perspective. - Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis

Arrested Development, No Bluths. No, strike that, I refuse to be flippant about this gorgeous novel. - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Holiday Book Exchange! Thanks Badkittyuno! - Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

I want to go back and read this again for the first time. - This Book is Full of Spiders (Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It) by David Wong

“Lafayette, we are here.” - Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

Her best travelogue yet. - Displacement by Lucy Knisley

“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.” - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The ultimate popcorn-book. Is that a thing? It should be a thing. - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

“You make a very handsome dead eel, my husband” - Radiance (Wraith Kings #1) by Grace Draven

Lives up to the hype and then some: Neapolitan Novels - Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

Oh, the feels - Little Robot by Ben Hatke

they discern/what equilibrium they can recover - Carol (also published as The Price of Salt) by Patricia Highsmith

Book Lovers Unite! - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

Keep calm and — bloody hell, it’s The Happening! - The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndam

This Tragedy Isn’t Mine to Own. It’s Hers. - Half a Life by Darin Strauss

Life on Mars - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Queen of the Nile - Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

“What if Heaven is real, but only in moments?” - The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Consider me a Fangirl fangirl - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

This Kid is Going to be Soooooo Messed Up - Room by Emma Donoghue

Comoran and Robin Complete Me - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

Rock Star Lessons in the Forgotten Arts: Amanda Palmer tackles Vulnerability, Connection, & Asking For Help - The Art of Asking or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer

Now I know what male dragons get up to when they’re alone - Saga Volume 5 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

The Ruth will set you free. - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik

Fact or Fiction? - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

No False Promises of Hoverboards in this Future - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Go into this great classic knowing as little as possible - Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

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