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

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. - A Memory of Light (Wheel of Time, #14; A Memory of Light, #3) by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

An Epic About Resistance - Circe by Madeline Miller

Athletes Can Be Activists, Too - Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

A Unique Perspective on a Tired Premise - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

Standing your ground can have unexpected consequences - The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan

There is No Law that Gods Must be Fair - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

That, O’Malley Supposed, Was Just His Luck - The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney

Wales Finally Gets Its Due - Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

Not all that wander are lost - All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft by Geraldine DeRuiter

Rocks, frocks, and a footprint in a box - A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare

“It wasn’t that she liked alien sex. She just liked drawing weird s***.” - A Girl Like Her: A BWWM Small Town Romance (Ravenswood Book 1) by Talia Hibbert

A Bible for Cat Training - The Trainable Cat: A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat by John Bradshaw and Sarah Ellis

It’s the end of the world as we know it…. - Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Yup, still holds up - Unraveled by Courtney Milan

“He had been pretending, then, to look into his past, when really he was looking into some alternate reality, some different version of his own history, some unseen world.” - The Unseen World by Liz Moore

I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live. - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Florette - Florette by Anna Walker

Life - Life by Cynthia Rylant

I’m Not a Combat Murderbot, I’m Security - All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

What if you mixed Hogwarts and nerds in Nebraska? - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

“For all the girls who walk and read at the same time.” - A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare

It was always burning, since the world’s been turning - Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

Toxic - Almost Love by Louise O'Neill

“What happens when you are worthless in somebody’s eyes” - Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Bit Late to the Party on This One, But Still Relevant - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The Cruel Beauty of the Faeries - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

If Austen Had Included Sex Scenes, This May Have Been the Result - A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant

Fables from the Stables - Hendrix the Rocking Horse by Gavin Puckett

Even a Gilded Cage is Still a Cage - The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

“Emma Gladstone had learned a few hard lessons by the age of two-and-twenty. Charming princes weren’t always what they seemed. Shining armor went out of fashion with the Crusades. And if fairy godmothers existed, hers was running several years late. Most of the time, a girl needed to rescue herself.” - The Duchess Deal (Girl Meets Duke #1) by Tessa Dare

“But I have told the truth. Isn’t that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.” - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

A Season of Flowers - A Season of Flowers by Michael Garland

Daddy Played the Blues - Daddy Played the Blues by Michael Garland

If there are things you don’t know, you call the gap in your knowledge a mystery and fill it in with a wholly emotional answer - The Day of the Scorpion by Paul Scott

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire - Pet Semetary by Stephen King

Drama, on and off stage, and getting knickers in a twist in real life - Drama by Raina Telgemeier

Finally Fantastic Art - The Art & Design of FINAL FANTASY XV by Cook and Becker and Square Enix

The bravery of teenagers puts us all to shame - The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

In which I try, very hard, not to tell people exactly how stupid I find them - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

For Every One - For Every One by Jason Reynolds

Remembering for both of them. - Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

27: The Sparsholt Affair - The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst

26: Her Body and Other Parties - Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

23: Step Aside, Pops - Step Aside, Pops by Kate Beaton

22: Hark! A Vagrant - Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

21: Homegoing - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The plants are coming. - Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

Read. Re-read. Share. Repeat. - Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

The Gifts and Curses of our Ancestors - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Pure, undiluted story - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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