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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Psycho Killer, Qu’est-ce que c’est? - In the Woods by Tana French

Decent, but a little dry - Downbelow Station (The Company Wars #1) by C.J. Cherryh

If you don’t like the cold snow, try this warm treat - When the Snow Falls by Linda Booth Sweeney

Here a skull, there a skull, everywhere a skull-skull…. - SKULLS! by Blair Thornburgh

I do not feel each letter any more than you see each letter as you see and read. - Story of My Life by Helen Keller

“It’s impossible to know if we were a good thing that broke somehow or a bad thing that eventually became exposed. “ - Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

Notorious Pleasures is the title, not the reading experience - Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt

I would hire Arthur Dogger & Associates. - The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10) by Alan Bradley

Where my Enneagram nerds at? - The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher Heuertz

Sir Condy Rackrent, by the grace of God heir-at-law to the Castle Rackrent estate, was a remote branch of the family. - Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

Sister… or brother… Act - Little Owl’s Egg by Debi Glori

Two street musicians enter the pawn shop - The Posey Ring: A Love Story by Bob Graham

Flying - Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

“You’re a superhero. Deal with it.” - The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten

Truth Be Told I Don’t Know How to Review Poetry… - Selected Poems by John Keats

Yeah I’m gonna do it - Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas

” I was an immigrant. And no matter how Americanized I become, no matter how much Jay-Z I listen to, I’ll always be an immigrant” - How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents by Jimmy O. Yang

The girl anchors the stage, sucks in the male gaze, and, depending on who she is, throws her own gaze back out into the audience. - Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

Just when you thought cancer couldn’t suck any more than it already does - The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K. Lipska with Elaine McArdle

Our House, in the Middle of our Heath - The Likeness by Tana French

Not Every Essay Resonated - Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Lost in Translation to Graphic - Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer, Giovanni Rigano, Paolo Lamanna

This spring came the third flood - A Story of the Red Cross by Clara Barton

Do it for the photo, for the art, for the creativity–but never for the likes. - Hashtag Authentic: Finding creativity and building community on Instagram and beyond by Sara Tasker

But it’s different with a woman. Her work in the house is to keep not to get. - The Devil's Pool by George Sand

Sometimes, you just have to suck it up and write the damned review - Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

See Into the Beast - The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross

Not as Good as Christie - And Death Came Too by Richard Hull

Presidential…or How to Not Be like Donald Trump - Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Curiouser & Curiouser - A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

Twitter Can Be Fun - Destiny's Surrender by Beverly Jenkins

Ugh, Dad, You’re Embarrassing Me… - The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford

Where do we really belong? - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

An affair to remember, I guess - The princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

From the outside, everything looks good - Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

Is butter a carb? - Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

I believe the woman behind the case study, but she’s not unimpeachable - Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey

Trauma, and the Trudging On Towards Healing - Birdie by Tracey Lindberg

I was all about it until I wasn’t - Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

What stereotype are you most afraid of confirming? - Whistling Vivaldi And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude M. Steele

Didn’t really give me the feels - When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

Older, but still beautiful - After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman

The Worlds of David Ezra Stein - Hush, Little Bunny by David Ezra Stein; Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise by David Ezra Stein

Meg Ryan Rom-Com: I should have bought the Kindle edition (now $1.99!) - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Academic Fiction at it’s Best but also Worst - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Maybe one of those lesser Greek gods that lord over twigs or something. - Valley of the Gods by Alexandra Wolfe

Love of the Common People - Faithful Place by Tana French

Evil AIs are in my wheelhouse - Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Just call me cranky. Hi cranky, I’m dad. - The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death by Colson Whitehead

Fun story, bad editing - The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

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