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

Why is this book over? How am I not still reading it? - Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

Robin and Strike are way better than Batman and Robin - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith / JK Rowling

Music connects us all - Sounds Like Me: My Life (so far) in Song by Sara Bareilles

A new literary favorite - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Scandal Magnet, Pioneering Aviatrix, and Maverick – Beryl Markham - Circling the Sun by Paula McClain

Starting off the New Year… - Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

A Kafkaesque Nightmare - Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Why spend a 5-star review explaining why I like the book, when I can chide heartbroken shippers instead? - Ruin and Rising (The Grisha #3) by Leigh Bardugo

I love Wuthering Heights, sorry, not sorry - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

In which our heroine changes everything - Queen of Shadows by Sarah J Maas

No, not that Martian. The other one. - War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Sisters are doing it for themselves. - Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

Xena’s Got Nothing on Her - Red Sonja, Volume 1: Queen of the Plagues by Gail Simone, Walter Geovani, Adriano Lucas

She’s Basically the Best - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik

If Hitchhiker’s Guide & Firefly had a baby… - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet #1) by Becky Chambers

Compelling Short Story - The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

Let’s get (meta)physical. - The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Ship That Sank Twice by Mike Carey & Peter Gross

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is this dead person and why does she have my face?! - The Likeness by Tana French

Where we’re going, we don’t need any… actually, yeah. Why don’t we at least bring some supplies. - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Adorable YA Rom-Com Alert - To All the Boy's I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

Long Time Listener, First Time Reader - Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Goodbye Ziggy Stardust… - Bug in a Vacuum by Melanie Watt

The stories are dying. - The Unwritten, Vol. 7: The Wound by Mike Carey & Peter Gross

See what courage sounds like - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Liane Moriarty, would you like to go steady? - Big Little Lies by Lian Moriarty

Freedom is Only the Beginning - An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

An engrossing book about the horrific rape culture in the United States - Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

Embrace Your Weird Self (And Other Weird Selves, Too) - The Secret Loves of Geek Girls by Hope Nicholson

This Might Be My Book of the Year - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Sh*t Just Got Real - Lies (Book 3 of the Gone series) by Michael Grant

How far would you go to save your sister? I’d go very very far. - A Good Killing by Allison Leotta

I finally joined the Rainbow Rowell fanclub - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

A spoiler free story about my journey to the Dark Tower - The Dark Tower by Stephen King

The Art and Poetry of War - Above the Dreamless Dead by various authors edited by Chris Duffy

“Before I discovered the miracles of science, magic ruled the world.” - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

The Natural Way of Things (unfortunately) - The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

An Empire Orphan’s Story - Old Filth (Book 1 of the Old Filth Trilogy) by Jane Gardam

A life measured and found wanting - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

“I am the Circle and the Circle is me” - The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2) by Patrick Ness

I Want a Robot Friend Too Now - Little Robot by Ben Hatke (and illustrator)

Rousseau, Holden Caulfield, and Ringo Star walk into a review… - Metamophosis by Franz Kafka

And now for something completely familiar… - Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout

Bewitched meets Kill Bill - Lady Killer by Joelle Jones

When I’m Missing My Dad, I Read This - Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace

Caged and enraged! - Bitch Planet Issues 1 - 5 by Kelly Sue Deconnick and Valentine De Landro

Well, that was good - Room by Emma Donoghue

A Warm Fuzzy of a Contemporary Romance - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Drink the Mead, See the World - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

A treasure hunt adventure - Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, Book 1) by Susan Cooper

Love and eggs are best when they’re fresh - The City Thieves by Lev Beniov

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