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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Captain Jack is a Lady, maybe? - The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath

I suppose she’s just dying of living–that’s the one infection that strikes us all down, sooner or later. - Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry

Voom indeed! - The Cat in the Hat for President by Robert Coover

Complicated Speculative Fiction. And Complicated Book Feelings - The Coldfire Trilogy: Black Sun Rising/ When True Night Falls/ Crown of Shadows by C.S. Friedman

Alice is the same…maybe I’ve changed? - Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman

The Man Who Laughs - Batman: The Man Who Laughs by Ed Brubaker

Entertaining, empty calories - The Windfall by Diksha Basu

You’ve read this book before - Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall. - Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

A book I apparently read while I was asleep - The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

Living in her white bread world - The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

Where I’m reminded expectations can kill - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Today, more than a quarter century later, we must ask what has happened to that uplifting vision; why does it seem to be fading instead of becoming more clear? - Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright

All the family secrets come out in this one - Hurts to Love You by Alisha Rai

Magic binds (but it doesn’t unblock my nose) - Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews

I hate having emotions about reality - All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Subscribers to a library borrowed for a modest fee one after another book of a kind sometimes called by publishers *library fiction*. - Border Districts by Gerlad Murnane

One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. - Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

A kidnapping and family drama - The Silent Twin (Detective Jennifer Knight Crime Thriller Series Book 3) by Caroline Mitchell

The Pink Hat - The Pink Hat by Andrew Joyne

We learn his banal secrets. We watch as he’s led, shackled and sweaty, into a brightly lit courtroom as someone seated several feet higher peers down unsmiling, raps a gavel, and speaks, at long last, every syllable of his birth name. - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

The (never-ending) End of Food - The End of Food by Paul Roberts

Each one of these ladies deserves a biography - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Read this for the awesome heroine. - A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals, #1) by Alyssa Cole

Good enough to finish – bad enough to have forgotten already - Someone to Hold by Mary Balogh

YOJNE SIHT KOOB! - Zatanna by Paul Dini

Biography of a Truly Despicable Woman - The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption by Barbara Bisantz Raymond

Dependable, reliable, responsible…and all those other words that end in ‘ible’ - Cold Welcome by Elizabeth Moon

So many different things that can petrify you - Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire

I wish I read the book I’m describing… - The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston

Don’t rub her the wrong way… - Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews

Triflers need not apply - Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

This did the job - Alexandra Brackens by Never Fade

still in the mood for thrillers - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Catching up with Adam and Ronan - Opal by Maggie Stiefvater

Off on a Pignic - Pignic by Matt Phelan

So much talk of faeries, and none of it good - The Good People by Hannah Kent

White Dudes Walking - A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

There is Great Consolation in Simply Doing Something You Love - Still Me by Jojo Moyes

Sounds Like Her - The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

I’m finally finishing the Newsflesh trilogy - Blackout by Mira Grant

Gideon and Sirius find a lost dog… but is the human lost too? - Lost Dog (A Gideon and Sirius Novel Book 3) by Alan Russell

Wacky Neighbor, Loyal Dog, and Please Make the Potential Love Interest Go Away - Hounded by Kevin Hearne

I Keep Forgetting I Read This … - The Forgotten Ones by Steena Holmes

Since When Does Dina Have a Sister? - One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews

Snow White Trades in Woodland Creatures for a Badge - Indexing by Seanan McGuire

Superman Vol. 5: Hopes and Fears - Superman Vol 5: Hopes and Fears by Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Keith Champagne, James Bonny

I’m burning the rabbit hutch myself–it’s mine to burn up! - them by Joyce Carol Oates

Disney Princess, Twist and Twisted edition - Ladycastle by Delilah S. Dawson (Author),‎ Ashley A. Woods (Illustrator),‎ Rebecca Farrow (Illustrator)

A fun enough read, but it was too short - Walk of Shame by Lauren Layne

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    on The Joke’s On You
    Practically every sentence is a joke omg, I recently finished a book like this. Hated it.
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