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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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I must ask to strain an imagination you have no right to exercise. - The Marvelous Land of Oz by L Frank Baum

When the horror of dystopia seems like a moderate improvement on reality - The Store by Bentley Little

Brand name goods at low low prices - Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell

Like a Sports Movie, In Reverse - The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Death Always in the Castle - Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park, 2nd Edition by Lee H. Whittlesey; We have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Immortalists - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Just in case the history books don’t cover gay history for your kids - The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E. Pitman

Two (Reviews) for the Dough - Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich; Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

Super blah, but I still got choked up at the end - The Light Between The Oceans by M. L. Stedman

Wholly Unraveled: A Memoir - Wholly Unraveled: A Memoir by Keele Burgin

It’s like you’re a mirror/my mirror staring back at me/oooooh! - Otherbound by Duyvis, Corrine

“There’s Hope Left in These Dusty Chords” - Raze by Roan Parrish

And having made this general remark, he took no more note of the uncouth aggressor. - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

The pecan doesn’t fall far from the tree. - The Lying Woods by Elston, Ashley

How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic. - A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

Facts are facts, Mrs. Byerson….There are no such things as true facts, for then we’d have to have false facts, wouldn’t we. - Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel

Q: What did the quater say to the penny? - Spend It! (Moneybunny) by Cinders McLeod

One of those books where everyone reading finds something else - What Is a Refugee? by Elise Gravel

I had never heard of this book until CBR - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

It is bad enough that one of us be in its shadow. - The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Leah on the Offbeat – Fun Visit Back to Creekwood - Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Kind regards, OG - The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

As shaky as ever - Three Cups of Deceit by Jon Krakauer

Female memoirs about growing up in California and then moving to New York written by actresses! - Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson ; The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae

The Great Pretender - Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Watered Down Everything - Fog Season by Patrice Sarath

An OK Thriller from a Very Good Comics Writer - The Oracle Year by Charles Soule

4,500 years of ancient history. - The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson

Called Every Plot Element, But This One Holds Up Better Than “Behind Closed Doors” - Bring Me Back by B. A. Paris

A sword called Pooky Bear. And an absurdly ancient creature falling in love with a teenager. Shrug. - World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2) by Susan Ee

Strike and Robin back on the case - Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

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

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