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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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In which I travel to the Old Republic - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Vol. 1: Commencement by John Jackson Miller (Writer), Travis Charest (Artist), Michael Atiyeh (Artist), Brian Ching (Artist), Travel Foreman (Artist)

There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude. - Fine Just the Way it is by Annie Proulx

Well, That’s Done - All These Worlds by Dennis Taylor

That’s One Way to Wake Up and Smell the Roses - That Scandalous Summer by Meredith Duran

They do it because they can - The Power by Naomi Alderman

Random Pennyroyal Green Selection - It Happened One Midnight by Julie Anne Long

A surface read, but an enjoyable one - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

Yes, this is only my third book of the year…but in an alternate life it’s my 31st - Version Control by Dexter Palmer

52: My dive into the pool involved a book that was just okay. - The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

There is no escape from this. Either you do or you don’t. And if you do, you can’t be sure of doing it the next time. And if you don’t, you never will again. - In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster

Jack Reacher Gets Schooled - Night School by Lee Child

We’re all just a mess - Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

It’s a Fine Line Between Transformative and Toxic - Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett

Shaft! He’s one sad motha%@#*( - Shaft: Imitation of LIfe by David F. Walker

I Quit Facebook This Week (Sort Of) - Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

Avatar + Arabian Nights - The Hundredth Queen by Emily R. King

Just a Couple of Guys Being Bros - Him by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy

Interested in time travel? Not like this. - Kindred by Octavia Butler

does he have a horse? is that what this is about? does he have a sword gun or a railroad or a ..a nice hat or something? - Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg

Everyone wants to be Malcolm Gladwell - Contagious by Jonah Berger

Sophie Johnson, Unicorn Expert (Maybe) - Sophie Johnson, Unicorn Expert by Morag Hood

Not what I was expecting - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

How Peculiar - Hollow City and Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

A Half Angel Rules Hell and Lucifer gets to Heaven - Aloha from Hell by Richard Kadrey

Define Skeeve - Myth Adventures One by Robert Asprin

Grateful to never again be a teenager - Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she’s never been told about - The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich

How not to be a detective - A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

Run Wild with this book! - Run Wild by David Covell.

The Reward For a Job Well Done Is More Work - The Prophecy Con by Patrick Weekes

Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation - Players by Don Delillo

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject. - Weight by Jeanette Winterson

49: An okay VR novel - Arena by Holly Jennings

47: An okay emergent YA novel from a great talent. - When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds

46: An uneven and somewhat disappointing debut - The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

44: A mixed bag of essays - What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson

38: Another case of “I liked the movie better.” - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

36: I honestly liked the movie (but not Armie Hammer) better - Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

Not your parent’s sheep meets wolf story - Baabwaa and Wooliam: A Tale of Literacy, Dental Hygiene, and Friendship by David Elliott

I’m a sucker for books set here - That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam

Vacation Time - Goldfish on Vacation by Sally Lloyd-Jones

I’ll tell you, but you’ll never understand. You’re on the wrong side of the dark glass. Only the dead know how terrible it is to be alive - The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

If you must wear someone, you could do a lot worse than Deadpool - Deadpool: Back in Black by Cullen Bunn, Salva Espin

I can see why people love this, but I didn’t. - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The smuggler and the war hero – a marriage of convenience - Counting on the Countess by Eva Leigh

look this white guy read Macbeth once and it’s really important that you should know that even if you don’t even open his stupid book. - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A couple of feel good stories - Someday, Narwhal by Lisa Mantche

William Gibson, poet of cacaphony - Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl #2,3) by William Gibson

Fractured Fairytale - Disenchanted by Heide Goody and Iain Grant

You’ll want to take notes - 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster

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