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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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The Secret to Chess is the Secret to Life - All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything by Sasha Chapin

The Magic is Gone. Now What? - The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold

Nazis? I Hate Those Guys - The Book of Lamps & Banners by Elizabeth Hand

Too many ingredients - The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood

Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition. - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

“I’ve seen Steelheart bleed.” - Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

A Walk To Adventure - Timo the Adventurer by Jonathan Garnier

“I actually look for things to smile about.” ~ Dr. Ruth - Roller Coaster Grandma: The Amazing Story of Dr. Ruth by Dr. Ruth Westheimer

I kinda wanna try faerie fruit - Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Actions v Words - Press Play by Ash Dylan

Take a look, it’s in a book (or five) - My America by Karen Katz; Sheep Dog and Sheep Sheep: Baaad Hair Day by Eric Barclay; One More Hug by Megan Alexander; Roly Poly by Mem Fox; The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig

Spunk is the name of the game! - Julia’s House Moves On by Ben Hatke; Oona by Kelly DiPucchio

Two different books creating feelings - I'll Be the Water: A Story of a Grandparent's Love by Alec Aspinwall; Crying is Like the Rain: A Story of Mindfulness and Feelings by Heather Feinberg

Celtic Chiaroscuro - The Grey King by Susan Cooper; Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper

A Peculiar Collection of Stories Both Surreal and Distinctly Human - What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

Dysfunction Junction - Sisters: A Novel by Daisy Johnson

Another faerie murder mystery for October Daye - A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

Music and dragons - Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

She apes Julia Child in her title, but this is a memoir, not a cookbook. #CBRBingo – How To - Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen

“I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.” - Just Kids by Patti Smith

White whale for a blackout (cbr12bingo 2: white whale) - Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Dracula sucks…but the book doesn’t! - Dracula by Bram Stoker

Don’t know your ABCs? That’s okay! You can still create a poem - Emily Writes: Emily Dickinson and Her Poetic Beginnings by Jane Yolen

Impractical knowledge is still knowledge! - How To by Randall Monroe

Two sets of friends for two new early readers - Do You Like My Bike (Hello, Hedgehog #1)? by Norm Feuti; Bunbun & Bonbon: Fancy Friends, by Jess Keating

the Sanderson sisters are still my favorite witchy siblings, but the Owens family are not messing around! - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Not so pretty on the inside - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

News from back then - Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Over and over and over and over… - Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

The last Jonathan Safran Foer book I will ever read. #CBRBingo – Nostalgia - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

We can’t have change without loss - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Difficult Women, Trauma, and Romance (Bingos #4 & 5) - The Trouble with Hating You by Sajni Patel

I finally understand the struggle of non-English speakers who have to wait for books to be translated - Ghostsitter - A Crazy Inheritance by Tommy Krapweiss

I have never read anything as bleak or upsetting - The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock

Let me play among the stars - Star Dust by Emma Barry/Genevieve Turner

“A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.” - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Hamburg-er - Blue Night by Simone Buchholz

Chance of Failure - The Pledge by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

I Got My Wish - Voices by Arnaldur Indriðason

Wasn’t expecting a cliffhanger! - Shadow Weaver by MarcyKate Connolly

A Steamy Novella that Also Made Me Hungry - Tikka Chance on Me by Suleikha Snyder

“Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives” - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

“This must be so difficult for you, Meredith.” - A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Were they truly intelligent? - The Puppet Masters by Robert A Heinlein

My name is Laurie Stratton. - Stranger with my Face by Lois Duncan; Ransom by Lois Duncan; They Never Came Home by Lois Duncan; Debutante Hill by Lois Duncan; Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan; Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan

Bushwick-ed - The Nightworkers by Brian Selfon

Plateaus of Spasmodic Weirdness - The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

things that go “scoff” in the night - Bunny by Mona Awad

Imagine if high school graduation was a Hunger Games competition - A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

A lock for every key, even if some are weird and corkscrew shaped (CBR12Bingo 2: Orange - Nature's Nether Regions by Menno Schilthuizen

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