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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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It is well known that eight colors make up white. - Eric by Terry Pratchett

It is a signal of woe. - The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

Hardboiled - Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

Pelvic floor exercises have now been added to my to-do list - This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

Great author forcing herself into the confines of a genre=middling book. - Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1) by Leigh Bardugo

“My cuddle-bunny is hogging the bed!” - Boris and the Worrisome Wakies by Helen Lester

Do not expect the obvious. - Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman

The baby is dead - The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani

Gone to the dogs - Antoinette by Kelly DiPucchio

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about. - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. - Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

We don’t use any more personnel than we have to. - The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

I have been with you every day of my life. You know, do you not, that is has been so? - Babette's Feast and Sorrow-Acre by Isak Dinesen

No, you cannot decide to be white. It does not work that way. - Good Talk by Mira Jacob; Be Everything at Once by Dami Lee; Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause; Present by Leslie Stein

Bit of Interesting Trivia - Just My Type by Simon Garfield

Tea, Politics and Space Ships - Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 7 – 13 - Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 7 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 8 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 9 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 10 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 11 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 12 by CLAMP; Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 13 by CLAMP

This is (almost) the end - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

The other reason…well, I wanted to see what you’d do. - After Dark, My Sweet by Jim Thompson

But none of it had affected her hearing in the slightest. - Gerald's Game by Stephen King

Road trip! - Peter & Ernesto: The Lost Sloths by Graham Annable

Stunning illustrations and a story about a special friend - Little Mole’s Wish by Sang-Keun Kim

Give a little love - The Love Letter by Anika Aldamuy Denise

They say it with love - How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? by Jane Yolen

Prince Harry in disguise? - A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole

“For Those About to Rock, We Salute You” - We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

Underwhelming young adult - Wilder Girls by Rory Power

I was somebody’s something. - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Knight Errant - Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas

And as it was on television, so it was in real life. - Step Across this Line by Salman Rushdie

Well sometimes, nothing. - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

The Squirrel inside and the Squabbling Lions or something like that - The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright ; The Squirrels Who Squabbled by Rachel Bright

Red Rover Red Rover roll right over Mars - Red Rover: Curiosity on Mars by Richard Ho

A celebration of everyday accomplishments as well as life’s milestones - I Knew You Could Do It! by Nancy Tillman

“You are stronger than you believe. You have greater powers than you know.” —Antiope to Diana, Wonder Woman movie - Diana: Princess of the Amazons by Shannon Hale

We need to tell each other the ugly stuff, the stuff we’re ashamed of. - Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

“This will end in flames” - Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

I found it somehow both infuriating and forgetable? - Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

He knows when you are sleeping and when you ate the cheese - Santa Mouse by Michael Brown

Whodunnit, meet Breakfast Club - One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

“She’s not a regular lady” - Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart

More ways Wall Street can screw you - Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

Another Story About Fire - Red Rain by Dean Koontz

Waking the Dead - Photographing the Dead by Dean Koontz

Not Bad First Story in Nameless Series…There’s a Dog - In the Heart of the Fire by Dean Koontz

“Why, all the greatest magic comes down to blood. And who knows blood better than a woman?” - Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Three Cheers for the skid-steer! - Three Cheers for Kid McGear! by Sherri Duskey Rinker

This book is not boring - The Boring Book by Shinsuke Yoshitake

If you’re Happy and you know it - Happy Right Now by Julie Berry

Not the most Pratchetty of Pratchetts, but solid - Eric by Terry Pratchett

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