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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Or just read “Girl on the Train” instead - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

How to prove sentience? A meta-galactic version of Eurovision, of course! - Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

Couldn’t Find a More Deserving Victim - A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

Voices from the Underground Railroad - Voices from the Underground Railroad by Kay Winters

The four men responsible for this last deal in human flesh… - Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston

All the Animals Where I Live - All the Animals Where I Live by Philip C. Stead

A Night Out - A Night Out with Mama by Quvenzhané Wallis

Good Read for Summer - Cinnamon and Gunpowder: A Novel by Eli Brown

Don’t do the audiobook - The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

Live in fragments no longer. - Howards End by E.M. Forster

Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you. - Night's Master by Tanith Lee

This fire left me feeling tepid - Home Fire and Antigone by Kamila Shamsie and Sophocles

The Movie Can Be Better than the Book - The Princess Bride by William Goldman

“The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you.” - The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) by Jeff VanderMeer

“It’s our secrets that make us sick.” - The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3) by Louise Penny

One Cannot Live on Faith Alone - The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

Teen Suicide without a gimmick - I Was Here by Gayle Foreman

I Am Doll Parts - You'll Never Know, Dear by Hallie Ephron

The Heroine Is Not As Charming As She Thinks She Is - A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

A Roaring Start - A Duke in Shining Armor by Loretta Chase

I don’t know about you but does your Pet want a Pet too? - My Pet Wants a Pet by Elise Broach

Listen, you’re not complicated at all. You’re only…You’re just schizophrenic, or a spy… - A Girl In Exile by Ismail Kadare

I think there was no time but now when we were supposed to know each other. One thing ends and another begins. - The Driest Season by Meghan Kenny

Rabbit Moon - Rabbit Moon by Jean Kim

The Unimaginary Friend - The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat

Petra finds herself? - Petra by Marianna Coppo

So Far So Good - Hexed by Kevin Hearne

A Decent Enough Introduction - Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Like an appetizer that just makes you want the actual meal even more - A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas

I don’t think I could name all the main characters if my life depended on it - Durarara!! vol. 8 by Ryohgo Narita

Evil Little Girl Corporate Villain vs God - The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1 by Carlo Zen, Shinobu Shinotsuki (character design), Chika Tojo (artist)

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

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    on “I’d looked into the face of death. I’d mistaken him for a friend.”
    The apartment is highly aspirational for sure. Great review!
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    Fully agree about Angel.
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