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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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“In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.” – Gustave Le Bon - The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

Fourteen Hundred Years of History; Still Uncovering the Women whose Achievements were Hidden. - The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak

“Strivers grasped for something better – maybe it existed, maybe it didn’t – and crooks schemed…” - Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

The most poetic tribute to trees since Joyce Kilmer - Tree, A Life Story by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady, with illustrations by Robert Bateman

first up for Tessa Dare, but wasn’t the last! - Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare

and now, for something completely different - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

some out of season books courtesy procrastination - Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

Starting CB14 off belatedly but well - Secret History by Brandon Sanderson

Connection is Made - The Verifiers by Jane Pek

“This could be the most mentally ill family in America.” - Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

Jailbird - Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut

War and Hell - The Last by Hanna Jameson

Short story that needs a novel - Hush by Mary Anne Mohanraj

Last Evenings on Earth - Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

“Stranger things have happened,” I say. “Most of them in the last month.” - The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa

Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - Son of the Morning Star by Evan S Connell

Worth and Expectations - Her Favorite Rebound (Cider Bar Sisters #4) by Jackie Lau; A Very Beery New Year (Cider Bar Sisters #3.5) by Jackie Lau

Space Oddity - The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

Ozark Noir - Saving Grace by Debbie Babitt

The Next Chapter - Run Book One by John Lewis

What kind of poem would a bird carry in its pocket? - If This Bird Had Pockets by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

“Burn it down, Charlie. Burn it all down.” - Firestarter by Stephen King

A tale as old as time - The Women of Troy: A Novel by Pat Barker

Clay’s Ark - Clay's Ark by Octavia Butler

What we talk about when we talk about shame - A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself by Peter Ho Davies

Turning in my Feminist Card - Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real about Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America by Amy Reed

“Archer…dressed in the evening because he thought it cleaner and more comfortable to do so” - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Jubilee - Jubilee by Margaret Walker

Ferrante Never Misses - The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

The Sugar Queen and the Mixer King - Sweethand by N.G. Peltier

“Life was far from harried here. But neither was it still.” - Still Life by Louise Penny

I Am Somewhat Less in Awe, But Still In It - House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J Maas

How to live a longer, healthier life with 9 strategies - The blue zones: lessons for living longer from the people who've lived the longest by Dan Buettner

Stripped - Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski

“There is more than one kind of freedom. . . . Freedom to and freedom from.” - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Comics and exercising: the perfect combination - The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

“As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.” - All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Jake Tong didn’t believe in love at first sight, not until it happened to him. - Her Favorite Rebound by Jackie Lau

New Ideas for Old Tropes - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone - Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin

Liked it! Wish it was longer. - She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women by Jennifer Wright

“‘That man’s lying.’ With that, he opened his suitcase and took out a blank telegram. After a few moments, he began to write. KATSUKO DEAD. SEND KINDAICHI.” - The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) by Seishi Yokomizo

“Kids are mirrors, reflecting back everything that happens to them. You’ve got to make sure they’re surrounded by good things.” - Sundial by Catriona Ward

Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand - Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany

Half Blood Blues - Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

Go Ask Alice… If You Can Find Her! - Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

What a gas! Unsung hero gets her day in the stars - Blast Off! How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America Into Space by  Suzanne Slade

“Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience.” - The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy

Becoming – a beacon of hope in dark times - Becoming by Michelle Obama

Sparks Fly - The Duke is Wicked (League of Lords Book 3) by Tracy Sumner

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