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

“Anyway, we delivered the bomb.” - In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton

Self-love out of self-loathing: Genesis Begins Again - Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams

“Guys, Auden is my man”: it’s hard not to love W. H. Auden - Selected Poems by W. H. Auden

“Because all the words I could think of—bullying, teasing, flirting—seemed too simple, too small, to hold all the hurt I was feeling.” - Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Teeth, Claws and Awww: CATS - Science Comics: Cats: Nature and Nurture. by Andy Hirsch

Yeah, that title about sums it up - Everything is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs

A Gut-Churning Good Time - The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman

“If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.” - The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Life is Short, but it is Wide - In Pieces by Sally Field

Walking up Fifth Avenue at night, Spofforth begins to whistle. - Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

American Trilogy #2 – holds up to the first, but you don’t need me to tell you that Philip Roth knows what he is doing. - I Married a Communist by Philip Roth

Beth learned of her mother’s death from a woman with a clipboard. - The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

Bad a##, Kick a## and all around one damn good read - Suncatcher by Jose Pimienta

A Delightful Book About Death - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty

Still just as good as I remembered it - What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long

Save the Flower Vampires - Tiny Bird:  Hummingbirds’ Amazing Journey by Robert Burleigh

Since I’ve returned from Russia a few weeks ago, I’ve been dreaming a lot. - Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Thomas dreamed he walked a familiar forest, following a timeworn path of the Tuscaroras. - The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

April Showers will bring more than Flowers! - Ellie Makes a Friend by Mike Wu

Ciaran Carson’s Last Words: Love, all love - Still Life by Ciaran Carson

Teetering on the Edge of Fantastic - Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Selena: Queen of Tejano Music - Selena: by Silvia Lopez

Red, White, and Royal Blue is the most romantic book I have ever read - Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Getting Myself Ready for Stamped from the Beginning - How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi

Jack and Jill the backstory - Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Survival is Insufficient - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

I bet that golden ticket makes the chocolate taste terrible - Switched On by John Elder Robison

It worked! - Extreme Makeover by Dan Wells

The thing was: One million years ago, back in 1986 A.D., Guayaquil was the chief seaport of the little South American democracy of Ecuador. - Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Got The Power - The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch

“I and only I did this to myself” - Redshirts by John Scalzi

I keep writing titles for this post and they’re all crap, just read Pumpkinheads, you’ll thank me later - Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell (author), Faith Erin Hicks (artist)

Lucy Parker Delivers (and with a romantic pairing that don’t want kids to boot!) - Headliners (London Celebrities #5) by Lucy Parker

The Water Dancer – a brilliant novel - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Surprisingly Serious Truths from a Seriously Silly Guy - Vacationland by John Hodgman

Wanting to go back down the rabbit hole - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

In which I review Howl’s Moving Castle - Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

“But if you could tell science like a story, I’d pay attention.” - The Line Tender by Kate Allen

Shortly after dawn, or what would have been dawn in a normal sky, Mr. Arthur Sammler with his bushy eye took in the books and papers of his West Side bedroom and suspected strongly that they were the wrong books, the wrong papers. - Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow

Rock On - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Stories from the 1% (no not THAT one) - I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

A Composition of Decomposition - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

The most fun you’ve ever had (being frugal) - The Art of Frugal Hedonism by Annie Raser-Rowland with Adam Grubb

It Gives Ocean’s Eleven a Run For Its Money - Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

What Book Would You Try and Save? - Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation by Tim Hamilton

Problems that are not seen cannot be addressed - She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Un.Be.Lievable. - Imbeciles by Adam Cohen

Semi-Historical Fiction With a Psychic Investigator - The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley

Just in Time for Oscars Night! - Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris

Couldn’t put it down, but had to cuz SCARY, but then had to pick it back up again. - Severance by Ling Ma

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