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

Worth all the praise it has been given… - Becoming by Michelle Obama

No less powerful when reading it 25 year later… - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Gangs of New York - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Maybe the coolest, mind-trippiest, concept I’ve ever encountered in a book. - S by JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst

Maybe I don’t wanna visit a Stephen King kinda town after all… - Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Django Wexler’s “The Shadow Campaigns” series took me on one heck of a ride - The Guns of Empire: Book 4 of The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler; The Infernal Battalion: Book 5 of The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler

Two Stories in One - Meant to Be Yours by Susan Mallery

What Would a Wife Do? - The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

Silver to Gold - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

The wife stuff (bingo, true story) - The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel

This is a Stick-Up - Swag by Elmore Leonard

“This world is forcing me to hold your hand” - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

I Feel Seen - Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family & Creating a New Age of Independence by Dr. Amy Blackstone

Disease — fictitious and otherwise - Pandemic (The Extinction Files, #1) by A.G. Riddle; Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott; Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life by Mallory Smith ; The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir by Steffanie Strathdee

One is silver, the other is gold. - Best Friends by Shannon Hale

One of My Favorite Books of the Year - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Remember, never take no cut-offs and hurry along as fast as you can” - The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown

Nature, love, loss, magnolia flowers and friendships - Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen

Alone at sea - Alone by Christophe Chaboute

Books that you nerds will love - A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs by Ben Garrod; Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston; Harry Potter: A History of Magic by British Library, J.K. Rowling

It’s what makes the hatters mad… - Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History by Alison Matthews David, Serah Marie McMahon

A young author and illustrator create a magical adventure for the middle school crowd - Aster and the Accidental Magic by Thom Pico

Principled Negotiation - Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher

Helping Others Leads to Success - Give and Take by Adam Grant

Meet Pals’ (the palindrome baby that had a few bumps in his life even before it was his life) Mom - Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley

See Jane. She has a red dress. She wants to play. - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

CBRBingo – Remix. Mrs. Holmes puts the original to shame. - Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca

Trust no one - The Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang

Not Just Problems, But Solutions. - So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Why Change is Hard - Switch by Chip Heath

There Was Once A Girl Named Isabelle - Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

The Fallout - In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George

A Sequel That Is Even Better Than The First Novel - Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

The Reverend - Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

May the odds be ever in your favor - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Antoine Revoy, you are a mean, mean, meeean, man! - Animus by Antoine Revoy

Sometimes the ones we call our heroes are the greatest monsters of all - Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Laughing Through the Tears - Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson; God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked by Darrell Hammond; The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief by Nora McInerny Purmort; It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too) by Nora McInerny Purmort

Deserves the hype - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

“For the love of one’s country is a terrible thing” - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

I Could Make a Pun Here, But Just Read the Book - Less by Andrew Sean Greer

The Handmaid’s Tale, but With Chili Peppers - The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

An Honest and Gracious Look at the Complexities of Adoption - All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung

“What do you do with a girl like Leonora”? - Out of This World: The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington by Michelle Markel

Go Fund Yourself. (illustrated, bingo) - Crowded by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, Ted Brandt

Funny Famous People (CBR11Bingo: Birthday) - Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key ; The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman; Yes Please by Amy Poehler; Bossypants by Tina Fey

When everyone has magic you’re special if you’re the one without - Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher

An excellent trilogy of thrillers (with a fourth on the way!) - The Butterfly Garden (The Collector #1) by Dot Hutchison; Roses of May (The Collector #2) by Dot Hutchison; The Summer Children (The Collector #3) by Dot Hutchison

I Have Always Imagined that Paradise Will Be a Kind of Library - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Finally embarking on this “space opera” journey thanks to you guys - Saga Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

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