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

Does this author ever write a bad book? - Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel

Burn Baby Burn - King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby

Surviving is an act of resistance! - Beasts of Carnaval by Rosália Rodrigo

The Road to Nebraska - Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes

This History Is Still Being Written - A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis

Locked Down - The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

Nobody Asked the Zebra - Bad Little Falls by Paul Doiron

Cooking at its best is an improvisational art form. - Heartland Masala: An Indian Cookbook from an American Kitchen by Jyoti Mukharji, Auyon Mukharji

Life Under the Third Reich - What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband

Why You Shouldn’t Cut-and-Paste a Genome Like a Word Document - CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans by Henry T. Greely

I almost used this for red, but things are not always greener (grass) on the other side of this friendship - The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole by Cecilia Heikkila

Maisie Dobbs and the Case of the Dubious Highlighter - Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqqueline Winspear

Smooth Like Buttah - The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey

“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.” - The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Birds of a feather - Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Do you follow the Beast or your better angels? - Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

“Life is all about feeling too many different things at the same time. But you don’t have to figure it out right now.“ - Donut Summer by Anita Kelly

Brooklyn Bound - Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Oh no, they (almost) killed David! - The Discovery by K. A. Applegate; The Threat by K. A. Applegate; The Solution by K. A. Applegate

I, a person who does not read memoirs, enjoyed this memoir - Just Kids by Patti Smith

Curiosity killed the octopus - Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

No One Else Can Come in and Copy You - Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology by Jorge Goldstein

He watched her while he played, too caught up in the melody to notice he was tumbling into something vast and endless. - August Lane by Regina Black

Home by Martha Wells - Home by Martha Wells

the presence of true innovation in literature is one of the most hopeful facets of reading - Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

Time keeps on slipping into the future - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Multigenerational missing girls and ripple effects - Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan

“Hope was such a sticky thing. And it was sneaky too. Always showing up in the moments it was least welcome.” - In a Jam by Kate Canterbary

Murderbot + ART = Joy! - Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Making the Sausage – Hollywood Style - The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg

“A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.” - The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

Mr. Popper’s Penguins, or, what we read in a Japanese emergency room. - Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

Anarchy in the UK - Once Was Willem by M.R. Carey

What do you call a family of Richards? A bag of Dicks. - No Body No Crime by Tess Sharpe

Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus, elves, flying reindeer and lots of love - North for the Winter by Bobby Podesta

One of my favorite fantasies - The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

The Rise of Sanctuary Noodles - Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril? - Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee

Search for the Historical Jesus - Zealot by Reza Aslan

The World Tries to Make Us Commodities, but We are Human. - Plum by Cate C. Wells

Settle Yourselves Down for a STORY. - The Knight of Maison-Rouge by Alexandre Dumas

Get in to Dodge - Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

The Path to Eo’s Dream - Red Rising by Pierce Brown; Golden Son by Pierce Brown; Morning Star by Pierce Brown

Red on the cover and bloody on the inside - The Night of Baba Yaga: A Novel by Akira Otani

A lovely ending to a very original fantasy trilogy - The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen

Sexy contemporary romance - Inevitable Seductions by Christina C. Jones

Aliens being aliens - Watch Your Orbit by Etta Pierce

Death in the Pines - Trespasser by Paul Doiron

Dystopia Now - Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

A firestorm of a story! - The Story of my Anger by Jasminne Mendez

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