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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Horrorbore - Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix

Could use more Emma Stone - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (next year but in the meantime some snow books to enjoy) - The Froze Monster (A Disney Frozen book) by Walt Disney Company ; Pinkalicious and the Snow Globe by Victoria Kann

Get your Wild Kratts here! - Wild Sea Creatures: Sharks, Whales and Dolphins by Kratt Brothers

Good Omens is a Love Story - Good Omens by Neil Gaimann and Terry Pratchett

There wasn’t a thesaurus in sight! - Dinosaur Roar! by Michael Paul

What a Bunch of A-holes - American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton

Marvel Female Super Heroes: a primer - Marvel: Fearless and Fantastic - Female Super Heroes Save the World by Sam Maggs, Emma Grange, and Ruth Amos

Easy Breezy Steampunk Mystery-Romance - Timekeeper by Tara Sim

Guatemalan insanity pepper: The Book - The Hike by Drew Magary

Been there, but it isn’t bad - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

How to College - How to College: What to Know Before You Go (and When You're There) by Andrea Malkin Brenner and Lara Hop Schwartz

Consolation Gaiman - Coraline by Neil Gaiman

One is always punished out of season. - Coup de Grace by Marguerite Yourcenar

“Fathers and sons…they’re like governments: always having sword fights with their penises” - Anagrams by Lorrie Moore; Like Life by Lorrie Moore

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart - Blubber by Judy Blume; Freckle Juice by Judy Blume; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume; A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Interesting Theory, Needs Some More Support - Bullsh*t Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work and What We Can Do About It by David Graeber

Well, I’m glad I read this once - The Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle

American Heiress - The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

A Quick Little Walk on the Dark Side - The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 by Louise Penny (editor)

Pure junk food but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun - The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll

They’re not bad, they just are - Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo; Seige and Storm by Leigh Bardugo; Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Lyra is finally back - The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman

Ariadne could tell the time by its closeness, three o’clock. - Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle

She would not wish anyone violently dead but, since it had happened, one might as well make the most of it. - A Mind to Murder by PD James

Longer is not better - Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

What would Jesus do? - Good News Bible (New Testament) by God/ Anonymous

I have no idea what the h*ck I just read - Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

The ups, downs, and forgetability of family - A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Gotta get Busy busy busy - Olive & Pekoe: In Four Short Walks by Jacky Davis; Lizzy McTizzy and the Busy Dizzy Day by Sarah Weeks; Woke Baby by Theodore Taylor III

All around the wall, there were tusks. - Speedboat by Renata Adler

I am a bloodsucker. - Seasons of Sacred Lust by Kazuko Shairashi

Auf Wiedersehen, Old Friend - Metropolis by Philip Kerr

Genetics is a science full of gods, Mr. Sanchez. - The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli

A Little Less Sparkle the Second Time Around - The Ancient Magus Bride The Silver Yarn by Kore Yamazaki et al.

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.” - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Kill Your UltraTelevision - X-Men Gold - Mojo Worldwide (Volume 3) by Marc Guggenheim & Cullen Bunn

Ehhh… - The One Who's Not the One by Keris Stainton

Life-changing concept, underwhelming book. - The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking

Too safe? - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

It would be nice to have the meat, too. Mice, mice, and more mice–he was fed up with them. - The Slynx by Tatiana Tolstaya

I have no idea what I was expecting from this book, but it for sure wasn’t this wackiness. - The Spellman Files (The Spellmans, #1) by Lisa Lutz

Am I cooling on Scalzi? - The Consuming Fire: Vol. 2 of The Interdependency duology by John Scalzi

“And I may have lost my mind but I believe that I rule my world” - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

My Kind of Town, Chicago is… - In A Pig's Eye by Robert Campbell

Can You Keep a Secret – Not a secret, but not for me - Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella

I keep wanting these books to be Dataclysm and it’s not their fault they aren’t. - Uncharted by Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel

Passivity is a great virtue, sometimes. - The Diary of a Good Neighbour by Doris Lessing; If the Old Could... by Doris Lessing

Paper like that could make you a writer, if anything could. - The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell

It often seems to me that’s all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again. - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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