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

Sometimes We Fly - Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

She’s All Brute Force and 90s Cliches - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Whacks and Whacks and Whacks - Chapelwood by Cherie Priest

No Your Mom’s Romance Novel - Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Yay for more Petra! - Shadow Puppets (Ender's Shadow #3) by Orson Scott Card

“I don’t want more sense!” I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. “Not if sense means I’ll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that’s worth holding on to?” - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

I Wandered the City, Got Lost, and Found Myself Again - My Life in France by Julia Child

A woman’s got to have a code – double Cannonball - The Legend of Lyon Redmond by Julie Anne Long

It just keeps being awesome, you guys - Saga, volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

“Benedict Cumberbatch is like Alan Rickman Benjamin Buttoning” - Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson - the Bloggess

Mindy Kaling is my soup snake - Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling

“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.” - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

In Space No One Can Hear Your Snark - The Martian by Andy Weir

An Abominable Snowman at the World’s End - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

A terrific and groundbreaking short story collection - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

Hey, Not Every Review I Write is Negative! - Clariel by Garth Nix

The Girls You Left Behind - The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes

And I Won’t Sit Down And I Won’t Shut Up And Most of All I Will Not Grow Up - The Road Beneath My Feet by Frank Turner

Tana French is an evil sorceress. Her words are her magical weapons. - Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3) by Tana French

Grow Wings Little Angel. - Killing Pretty by Richard Kadrey

What could possibly go wrong? - The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman

Your French methods are surprising - Maigret at the Gai Moulin (AKA The Dancer at the Gai Moulin) by Georges Simenon

Finally read this one! - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

The Dreamers Need to Shut Up and Listen - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Truth Will Set You Free - The Moor's Account: A Novel by Laila Lalami

Just Read This Book Already - Kindred by Octavia Butler

The Good Just Keeps on Going - Saga, Volume 2 by Brian K Vaughan

Sci-Fi + Graphic Novel x Art = THIS - Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K Vaughan

So many dresses get ruined in historical romances - One Night in London by Caroline Linden

There Should Have Been Too Much Sadness In This Book, But It Worked Very Well - The Year We Hid Away (The Ivy Years #2) by Sarina Bowen

But seriously, why not me? - Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling

One silent gift - Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart

“…we all fall down….” - Rising Strong by Brené Brown

Ain’t worth a Bean - Ender's Shadow (Ender's Shadow #1) by Orson Scott Card

Bro and Ladybro Take Bed-Stuy - Hawkeye, Volumes 1-4 by Matt Fraction and David Aja

A Sweet Little Read - Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos

Why did I wait so long to read this book? - Kindred by Octavia Butler

One of those books you press on your friends - The Martian by Andy Weir

A must-read for academics everywhere. - The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD into a Job by Karen Kelsky

A Must-Read for Anyone With Connections to Eating Disorders - 100 Questions & Answers About Eating Disorders by Carolyn Costin

Not Your Meat-And-Potatoes Kinda Cookbook - The Cuisines of Germany by Horst Scharefenberg

Has everyone been reading Nalo Hopkinson without me? - Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

A world without happy endings - The Widow by Georges Simenon

If I ever meet her, I will embarrass Ursula K. Le Guin with my fangirl weeping. - The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Things We Do For Love - If You Could Be Mine by Sara Fraizan

Le Droit de Choisir - The Perfume Collecter by Kathleen Tessaro

“Love has a most unfortunate effect on the brain” - Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

Friends and Enemies - The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

Gone completely beyond, awakened, hurray - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

A silence so fine - Three Bedroooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon

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