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

so close……… - Murder in the Sentier by Cara Black

Everyone on your train is drunk - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Awakening. But in Hollywood. - Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

A gay fantasia, indeed. - Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner

A Book You Can Really Lose Yourself In - Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff

Learning About Prison the Best Way–Vicariously - Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Seat-Gripping Story - Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

Roll with the Insanity, it’s Amazeballs - Kill Ball by Carlton Mellick III

A romance with a child labor subplot - It Happened One Midnight by Julie Anne Long

Note to Self: Always Trust Courtney Milan! - Trade Me by Courtney Milan

In the Bleak Mid-Winter - Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

The Book Kicks the Movie’s Ass (or the winner of the Hillenbrand/Jolie death match is . . . ) - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

“I’m a fangirl, a feminist, and a force to be reckoned with.” - The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy by Sam Maggs

A Rowling by any other name is just as fantastic - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Depression Is a Dick - My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

Angels and Demons, #2 - Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

Don’t Call Her A Legend - I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist by Betty Halbreich

The Real World: Little House on the Prairie - Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder

A Martian MacGyver for the problem-solving sci-fi fans among us - The Martian by Andy Weir

A romance, but with a cross dressing twist - Duchess by Night by Eloisa James

A Blazing World of Feminism, Art, and Masks - The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt

Sweet Perfection - The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz

No sir, no relief. Violent Crimes only. Murder Squad. - Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas

Because Survival Is Insufficient - Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel

Baby, Don’t Fear the Reaper - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

“Every person has their own color.” - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

Never Was One for a Prissy Girl - Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

One Hell of a Ride - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson by Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

The future is ADVENTURE! Ready, Steady, GO! - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Another day, another Trade Me review - Trade Me by Courtney Milan

A Time Worth Living In - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Another heart-pounding thriller in Paris - Murder in Belleville by Cara Black

I like my coffee like I like my women - The Bees by Laline Paull

Pusheen is my spirit animal. - I Am Pusheen the Cat by Claire Belton

I Can’t Pull You Closer Than This - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.” - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

When Gods Reincarnate as Teen Pop Stars, Things Get A Little Crazy - The Wicked + The Divine, vol. 1: The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen

A balm in Gilead - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

How Jane and a Fox ease the pain of cruelty - Jane, the Fox, and Me by Fanny Britt

Stealing: Things Like That Are Bound to Happen - The Man Who Loved Books Too Much (The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession) by Allison Hoover Bartlett

When The West Was Weird - The Six-Gun Tarot by R. S. Belcher

Cannonball Read Review #3: In the Hand of the Goddess - In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History - The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

What’s More Manly than a Manly Man? TWO Men! (So Said the Ancient Greeks) - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Martian: better than disco. - The Martian by Andy Weir

In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl - The Martian by Andy Weir

A great book marred by the absence of vampires. - Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

An All Lady Creative Team Writing About Kickass Ladies - Pretty Deadly, vol. 1: The Shrike by Kelly Sue DeConnick

The Haunting and the Haunted - Beloved by Toni Morrison

On Genius - On Beauty by Zadie Smith

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