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

The anthropology of small-town living - A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym

Nothing “Instant” About It - Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos

People can bite my ass - Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Denise Mina Leonardo Manco Andrea Mutti

Apocalypse is a frame of mind - Death Masks by Jim Butcher

Leopold’s Ghost Haunts Us All - King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

Seriously Mark? Seriously? - The Martian by Andy Weir

For All The Invisible Girls - Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen

Dude, you have balls of solid adamantium - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

How did everything get so fucked up? - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Little Halloween - Dead Man's Song by Jonathan Maberry

All Hail Russo! - The Risk Pool by Richard Russo

Taste this, bitch - Summer Knight by Jim Butcher

Well-written and sad - Still Alice by Lisa Genova

An adventure spy novel more than a murder mystery – also Cannonball! - They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

Unpretentious poetry I actually liked - Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Sharp, meta, and entertaining - Redshirts by John Scalzi

Now I’m gonna learn you boys a thing or two about broken bones and internal bleeding - My Murderous Childhood (And Other Grievous Yarns) by Eric Powell

Now this is what I call Sci-Fi - The Martian by Andy Weir

The fever dreams of John Keats. - The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) by Dan Simmons

A searing vision of post-apocalypse Africa in sci-fi - Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

Books like this are why I love science fiction. - Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) by Dan Simmons

Does success make you happy, or is being happy success? - Picnic in Provence A Memoir with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard

Terrifying time travel - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

This cockadoodie book. - Misery by Stephen King

Gyros for heros - Ms. Marvel Vols 1 & 2 by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, Jacob Wyatt

On a Journey with Holden - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Road Less Bleak - The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

We’re just bugs on God’s windshield - The Getaway God by Richard Kadrey

What a treat from Jelinas! - A Czech Treat! by Jelinas

One for the Reread Eternally Shelf - Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

Loved it! - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Peter Rabbit goes to the fair. Chaos ensues. - The Spectacular Tale of Peter Rabbit by Emma Thompson

The sweet dove is not as innocent as it seems. - The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym

Best. Gay. Squirrel. Porn. EVER. - The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter

Donuts must be the very essence of free will - Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey

Mommy Issues - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Macgyver on Mars! - The Martian by Andy Weir

A long pale scar - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Evil Doesn’t Die, It Waits and Gets Stronger - Ghost Road Blues (Pine Deep #1) by Jonathan Maberry

I’ve wandered deep in the realm of What the F**k - Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey

Hail Lucifer - Aloha From Hell by Richard Kadrey

Still time to read it before the movie comes out - The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir

Knife to the eye!! - The Goon in Rough Stuff by Eric Powell

So now we’ve got the gang together… - The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2) by Stephen King

Musings on Manhood - Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon

Andrew Smith is my spirit animal. - Winger by Andrew Smith

[Hyperventilating] - Saga Volume 4 (#19-24) by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples

If you suddenly began rising steadily at one foot per second, how exactly would you die? - What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

The womb or the earth. - Ruby by Cynthia Bond

My Mother Said I Never Should - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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