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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine. - Love Among the Chickens by PG Wodehouse

After creating a new residential area in the shape of a Mona Lisa jigsaw puzzle, the new owner went out & shot 6000 dogs. But this still left a dog pop. of 165, 000 to a human pop. of 89,000. - Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme

A middle-class, middle-aged poet of middling success - The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. - Severance by Ling Ma

How can one drowning rat save another? - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery - The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K. Lipska

Just in time for Mother’s Day - The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

Ask Me How I Feel - Tiger Days: A Book of feelings by M. H. Clark

“If I have to I can do anything I am strong (strong) I am invincible (invincible)” - I Will Be Fierce by Bea Birdsong

Reading outside my habits: a breezy YA romance - Just For Clicks by Kara McDowell

And they won by a lambslilde! - Lambslide by Ann Patchett

Probably very good, but not my cup of tea - Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman

Who actually wrote this one? - Look Alive, Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich

Conversations with Ourselves Through Conversations with Art - The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

1972; 1979 and now 2018 - Felix’s New Skirt by Kerstin Brichzin

Not only the difference between Coke and Pepsi, but Wise potato chips and Utz, Little Debbie’s and Hostess. - The Sugar House by Laura Lippman

Welcome to your Feelings - The Happy Book by Andy Rash

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Happy Birthday too yoooooooooooou! - Ten Rules of the Birthday Wish by Beth Ferry

Life is not for figuring out. It’s for living. - (It's Great To) Suck At Something by Karen Rinaldi

I’d like a refund on these man babies - Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

Time to watch Grosse Pointe Blank again - The Plotters by Un-su Kim

Perfectly fine about sums it up, yeah. - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

I was having an emotion, and I hate that - Artificial Condition by Martha Wells; Exit Strategy by Martha Wells; Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

In the immortal words of Ron Swanson: “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

One Night I Dreamed of War. Real, It Was. - Craig & Joan - Two Lives for Peace by Eliot Asinof

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. - The Wonderful Wizard of OZ by L Frank Baum

Do you believe that Pirates don’t takes baths and there are Groovicorns? - Pirates Don’t Take Baths by John Sega; Do You Believe in Groovicorns? by Rosie Greening

Least Favorite Spalding Book - Dry Hard by Nick Spalding

Most of the Book Focused on Suspense Not the Romance - The Obsession by Nora Roberts

Better Than the Last Two Books in Series - A Question of Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro

So So Installment in the World of VI - Shell Game by Sara Paretsky

Just Keep Swimming - Swimming for Sunlight by Allie Larkin

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. - The Postman by David Brin

Missing some tension and excitement - It Happened One Wedding by Julie James

The real monsters aren’t the ones you think - Strange Practice: A Dr. Greta Helsing Novel by Vivian Shaw

“I am not good. Nor am I evil. I am no hero. Nor am I villain. I am AIDAN.” - Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff; Gemina by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff; Obsidio by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Who Wants to Live Forever? - Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age by Sue Armstrong

Did you have your Vitamin C today? - The Berenstain Bears Pirate Adventure by Mike Berenstain

A review for the birds! - Birds by Carme Lemniscates

A lady detective in the Windy City - Breakdown by Sara Paretsky

There’s no impersonality here. - What Makes This Book so Good? by Jo Walton

the Justice Circle - It Wasn't Me by Dana Alison Levy

It’s Not for Everyone, But the Mad Fans Will Appreciate - Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) by George R. R. Martin

Feels Weird to Say, But I’m Almost There - Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya

Some Problems, but the Ending’s Worth It - I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly, JM Ken Niimura

We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control - Educated by Tara Westover

Chekov’s Clique - The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

Fine For What It Is - No. More. Plastic.: What you can do to make a difference by Martin Dorey

To the one who provided womb and board all those months - My Two Moms and Me by Michael Joosten; Mom and Me, Me and Mom by Miguel Tanco

The dinosaurs never discovered what caused their extinction, either. - Wastelands by John Joseph Adams (ed.)

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