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

“Kill the spare.” - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) by J.K. Rowling

“And it wasn’t like JT was the Buddha or some sage. He was just another human who was trying to figure it all out, same as she was. But he’d just said all the right words in a row.” - Hot in Hellcat Canyon by Julie Anne Long

Let’s smoke that freak! - My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

The During and After - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

I’m a meek rider on a distracted elephant - Switch by Dan Heath, Chip Heath

Even more mannered than most - Persuasion by Jane Austen

Daisy Jones & The Six – Best. Audiobook Everrrrr. - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Nice Take on Cinderella - If the Shoe Fits by Deborah Guarino and Seth Hippen

Trolls, trolls, and mice - Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark by Chronicle Books and Ulla Thynell

“I’m tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders.” - The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, Book 2) by Brandon Sanderson

Where will you be when the world ends? (in a Taco Bell?)(Seems likely!) - Apocalypse Taco by Hale, Nathan

Wonderful Merge of YA, Fantasy, & Horror - The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

Fantastic Follow up to Book One! - Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George

What is Addiction? - Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes

A Supremacy of Dunces - The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

18 days, 13 trapped and 1 amazing rescue - Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team by Susan Hood

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell” - Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

A Harlem Love Story - If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

When the Deck is Stacked Against You, Switch to Pachinko - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Tell yourself its fiction and you’ll feel better - The Overstory by Richard Powers

“Why am I only seen as someone who needs and not someone who can give?” - Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

The Title is (kind of) a Lie - The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should be Easy by Caroline Dooner

The Titles Aren’t Subtle, but the Books are Substantial - Stillhouse Lake (Book 1) by Rachel Caine; Killman Creek (Stillhouse Lake series book 2) by Rachel Caine; Wolfhunter River by Rachel Caine

Gone in 7 Floors - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Just Short of Amazing - Pump Six & Other Stories by Paolo Bagigalupi

You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans. - Kokoro by Natsume Soseki; Botchan by Natsume Soseki

Pam Houston is my Weakness - Deep Creek - Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy. - Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks

Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. - Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

Come on a trip across country - You are Home: An Ode to the National Parks by Evan Turk

You’re in a Cult — Call your dad! And other life advice from Karen and Georgia - Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

So take a look what you’ve done/ ‘Cause, baby, now we’ve got bad blood, hey!/ Now we’ve got problems/ And I don’t think we can solve ’em - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

“Just because you’re the same kind doesn’t mean you’re all one happy family. The important thing is to understand each other. That’s love!” - The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly: A Novel by Sun-Mi Hwang

G.O.(A).T - A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

What do you get when you cross a Drag Queen and she’s friends with Harley Quinn? - Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki

The story of the Undefeated - The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander

Salt to the Sea - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

10 Reasons to Get Out of Bed in the Morning - Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon

The crack of the bat, the stench of popcorn, the cheers of the fans! - Fuzzy Baseball Volume 1 by John Steven Gurney

If you like good romance, just get this book already - The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker

A Love Letter From a Dad to his Son - Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman

Friendship can be found in the strangest of places - Little Robot by Ben Hatke

Mistakes were made, but that’s totally okay! - The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken; Princesses Are Not Perfect by Kate Lum, Illustrated by Sue Hellard

For once, the King actually did know best - The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye

All great journeys start with a single step - Pears and Perils by Drew Hayes

The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy – well, books 2 and 3 - The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu; Death's End by Cixin Liu

A Great Deliverance Packs a Punch - A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

Hello My name is Raven and I am a book sniffer - This Book of Mine: A Picture Book by Sarah Stewart

It’s Erin– Ms Gibson if you’re Feminasty - Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson

Read the book Trump can’t! - The Muller Report by Robert Mueller

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