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

Other Terrors - Other Terrors by Vince A. Liaguno

The Lilac Bus - The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy

Family are those we wouldn’t be friends with if not related - Memories from Limon by Edo Brenes

Culture and Imperialism - Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said

The Handmaid’s Tale - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler - If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

Bad decisions, good book - Brooklynaire by Sabrina Bowen

My Whackadoo brain found some cool reads - Murderbot Diaries V02 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells; Hilo Book 6: All the Pieces Fit by Judd Winick; This is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle

Brave New World - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Okay, but really, you should read this. - The End of Bias: A Beginning by Jessica Nordell

The Drowning Kind - The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

My Evil Mother - My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood

The Furies - The Furies by John Connolly

Guilty Gore - Aliens: Phalanx by Scott Sigler

Aussie Comedian Memoir Double Feature - Challenge Accepted by Celeste Barber

Full of grace - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

“It was the worst fact of parenthood, that what you did mattered so much more than anything you said” - This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

Here goes… - The Autistic Brain: Thinking across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek

Going on vacation? Looking for a great read that won’t run out anytime soon? Gotcha covered. - Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore

Labyrinths - Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

Fantastic second book! - The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart

Don’t talk to cops. Or reporters. And never, ever, ever Mike Wallace. - The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

An 80 Year Old Novel That Could Have Been Written Today - Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

A Delightful Gem of a Novel - Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

The Price of the Ticket - The Price of the Ticket by James Baldwin; Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin; Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin; The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin; No Name in the Street by James Baldwin; The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin

Y’all Remember - The Deep by Rivers Solomon

A Hard-Hitting Fantasy - The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi

No star burns forever - Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

“When the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?” - Cruddy by Lynda Barry

“Who knows upon what soil they fed/ Their hungry thirsty roots?” - Goblin Market by Diane Zahler

Excellent sequel (not follow up) to the first book - The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

The Things They Carried - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Narcos - The Cartel by Don Winslow

“It’s a calming thing, to learn there’s a word for something you’ve felt all your life, but didn’t know was shared by anyone else.” - The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

The Sun Also Rises - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Henrik Ibsen Plays - A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen; Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Edward Albee Plays - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee; The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

Should be listened to in audio format if at all possible - Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton

Time Warp - Nowhere Girl by Magali Le Huche

Roam on the Range - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

this is the sort of book that requires some quiet wallowing time post-finish - The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith

The harm they meant - The Known World by Edward P. Jones

“When gods dance, humanity trembles” - The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna

The older you get, the closer history seems - Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton

“Whatever comes, face it on your feet.” - The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

This is just the way the world is - Reprieve by James Han Mattson

The Circumscription of Women and Men - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Six Cases, Seven Deaths - The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

book one in a series that is continuing? finishing? in november–get on this train fast! - A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

A magical love letter to NYC - The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

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