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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it – often out of sheer surprise. - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

YA but, like, fascinating - The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

A Lot Going On Here - Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmieri

The Second Happiest Place in the World - Tricks for Free by Seanan McGuire

A mystery with a strong appreciation of food and Harrods - A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas

Gunmetal Magic, or, how I managed to ruin Raphael for myself… - Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews

This shit about being fearless before death ain’t got no quality. How could you say you were fearless about leaving the party, even in stir—even franks and rice taste good when you’re hungry, even an iron bar feels good to touch, it feels good to sleep. - Falconer by John Cheever

They were inconveniently reasonable, these women. - Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way. - The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin

A brief detour from my Kate Daniels adventures - The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins

Science fiction with a little quantum physics thrown in - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Gotta be ruthless - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

The baddest bitch of them all - The Unyielding (Call of Crows #3) by Shelly Laurenston

Monsters in a Land Down Under - Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire

Sadly, Thor Does Not Make An Appearance - Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire

Stories About Technology and Discovery - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

So Much Plant Butt - Batman: Arkham: Poison Ivy by Gerry Conway

Not quite like finding your long lost twin sister - The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

An excellent book club book - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

The Five Forms - The Five Forms by Barbara McClintock

16: All We Can Do Is Wait - All We Can Do Is Wait by Richard Lawson

15: A Gentleman in Moscow - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

13: Jane - Jane by Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón Pérez

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes - Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #10 - Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World by Ian Bremmer

Delightful, feel-good space opera - A Closed and Common Orbit. by Becky Chambers

Dance partners on reality TV show fall in love. - Take the Lead (Dance Off, #1) by Alexis Daria

We prefer to explore the universe by traveling inward, as opposed to outward - Binti; Binti: Home; Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor

As a Professional Crush-Having-But-Doing-Nothing Kind of Person, I Feel You, Girl… - The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

Career Advice for Business-y People - The Right—and Wrong—Stuff: How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade by Carter Cast

And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person’s eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors. - The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera

Hoping for more out of this than I’m getting. - Blood of Elves (The Witcher #3) by Andrzej Sapkowski

We continue our adventures with Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin! - A Wind in the Door (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet) by Madeleine L'Engle

A Scot and his wolf return home - A Devil in Scotland by Suzanne Enoch

Robert Jordan’s last completed book. - Knife of Dreams (Wheel of Time, #11) by Robert Jordan

A Couple of Babies - Baby Monkey, Private Eye by David Serlin

What if God was one of us? - The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

201-Level Feminism - Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates

An OK read but I recommend checking out Bobby Dollar instead - Something More than Night by Ian Tregillis

The lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits. Under the filling-station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. - Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson

I will solve you. - How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

To the reference shelf with you - Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution by Jonathan B. Losos

Sophomore slump, I guess - Artemis by Andy Weir

Careful Hannah, Moishe Might be Getting More Interesting than You - Raspberry Danish Murder by Joanne Fluke

Too Many Loose Threads and Stinkyness - The Case for Jamie by Brittany Cavallaro

The female of the species is more deadly than the male - Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters by Peter Vronsky

I am a ball of conflicting emotions. - The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata

“I realize with sudden clarity that we’re wearing masks, all of us, all the time.” - Second Life by S.J. Watson

Thoughts have wings. - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Much needed brain balm - Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

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  • drmllz
    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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    on Dungeon Crawler Carl
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    I love your Gatsby one. I'm not good at these but I'll give it a try. Legends & Lattes: green...
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    on “Maybe that was what kept them alive. Not magic, not muscle, but catching each other when the world tried to drop them.”
    Fully agree about Angel.
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