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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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“I made promises to you that I’m not sure I can keep.” - Forever... by Judy Blume

“Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.” - Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands: Book 2 of the Emily Wilde Series: A Novel by Heather Fawcett

Witches and Nazis and Ghosts – Oh My - A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan

Bad-a$$ gals - The Girl Who Changed Little League: The True Story of Maria Pepe and Her Battle to Play Ball. by Maria Pepe with Jean L. S. Patrick; Sparrow Loves Reptiles by Murry Burgess and Tamisha Anthony

Celebrate Ramadan - Ramadan for Everyone: A Muslim Community Story by Aya Khalil

Late to the party, but still treats - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

Mom and Me - The Brunch Shift by Adrienne Thurman

Sixty-six million years ago or Ya know the other day - One Cosmic Rock: The Story of the Asteroid that Changed Our World by Julia Vasileva

Gnome for the holidays - Christmas Gnomes (Gnome for the Holidays) by Kelly Green and Lisa Alderson

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene don’t stop helping the bees, hunny! - Green Jolene and the Backyard Bees by Wendy Mass

“The case does look very black against you. Nevertheless, I accept your assurance.” - The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie

The Kill Clause by Lisa Unger - The Kill Clause by Lisa Unger

Appreciating an attractive middle-aged woman is one of the great luxuries in life. - Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

“Love is sharing your popcorn.” —Charles Schultz - A Salwar Kameez for Ambika by Arti Pandey; Samina Goes to a Wedding: Celebrations from a Bangladeshi Marriage by Farida Zaman

Interactive story with Simon and friends - Simon Turns Right by Nicole van Brummelen

Book images came from the interweb, but I like them so used them so thanks to who posted - My Heart Speaks Kriolu by Stefanie Foster Brown and Keisha Morris; Piccolo by Dan Yaccarino

Not as Good as Hyperbole and a Half - Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

In time for Halloween 2026 - Scritch! Scratch!: An Itchy, Witchy Halloween Tale by Teri Sloat

What stars are made of - The Curious Life of Cecilia Payne: Discovering the Stuff of Stars by Laura Alary

Decent Mystery - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

Atmospheric, but Not Much Else - Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio

Science augmenting the human body - Replaceable You by Mary Roach

Golden Girls with Feet of Clay - The It Girls by Caroline Young

Skirts Just Look So Good on Us! - Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

Fish Fingers - Gyo by Junji Ito

Don’t Call Me Shirley - Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk

We’re all mad here - Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

A little light on answers for my preferences - The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott

To tell their stories - Home Is a Door We Carry by Constantin Satüpo

Origin story for human civilization - The Children of the Sun: An Inca Legend by Micaela Chirif

Big Brother is watching Part One - George Orwell's 1984: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell and Matyas Namai

A little faerie magic and a lot about real world sustainable gardening practices - Shroom for Improvement (Mythical Mishaps #1) by Jemma Croft

Forty Years Into the Future - Future Boy by Michael J. Fox

“The possibility of pain is where love stems from.” - The Humans by Matt Haig

Self help through self-compassion - Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff

writing this review for bingo, and ended up in the typical place - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

You Know What They Say About Assumptions… - Lady Suspicious by Kate Archer; Convince Me, Viscount by Kate Archer

Semper Iocosus - Grit, Spit, and Never Quit by Rob Riggle

Talk About an Unreliable Narrator… - The Package by Sebastian Fitzek

It started out well - First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison

“Gods and goddesses above, he was dangerous, but not for the reasons she’d once feared.” - Zomromcom by Olivia Dade

Once and Again by Rebecca Serle - Once and Again by Rebecca Serle

Arts and crafts as magic - The Moorwitch by Jessica Khoury

The Wheel (spinning) of Time - The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan

Back to “Normal” Until the Next Major Life Change - Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire

Two writers on an island - Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

History, women, and books - The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes

Where everything is explained - Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The review I date myself by my pop culture references or Scooby Doo and the Not so Masked Villains - Toxic Summer by Derek Charm

When in a pinch use a banana - The Book of Candles: Eight Poems for Hanukkah by Laurel Snyder and Leanne Hatch

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  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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