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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.” - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter: A Novel by Stephen Graham Jones

“We consider it cruel,” Maia said. “And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.” - The Goblin Emperor (The Chronicles of Osreth #1) by Katherine Addison

Molka by Monika Kim - Molka by Monika Kim

Thee Most Adorable YA Sapphic Summer Romance - Summer Official by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Dog Days Are Over, Bitches - For Whom the Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn

“It was as though they hadn’t seen me, as though I was here, and yet not here.” - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Fancy Meeting You Here by Julie Tieu - Fancy Meeting You Here by Julie Tieu

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Great Ending to the 1st Part of this series - The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson

“Remember, Vera reminds herself, your ass is bad. Very bad. And that is a good thing.” - Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) - Vera Wong #2 by Jesse Q. Sutanto

“But I am not the heroine of a novel.” - The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Vol 1 by Beth Brower; The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Vol 2 by Beth Brower; The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Vol 3 by Beth Brower; The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Vol 4 by Beth Brower; The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Vol 5 by Beth Brower

A lovely Marriage in Trouble romance - No Matter What by Cara Bastone

Softball with a side of Magical Girl?! - Grand Slam Romance Book 1 by Ollie Hicks and Emma Oosterhous

The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu - The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu

OutFoxing the Paranormal - The Forgotten Dead by Jordan L. Hawk; Rattling Bone by Jordan L. Hawk; Into the Dark by Jordan L. Hawk

Sailing, Sailing *hums* - Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

I love inappropriate moments. They’re my favourite moments. - The Raven Scholar: The Eternal Path Book #1 by Antonia Hodgson

On a Highway to Hell - Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson

Too Old for This- Geriatric serial killers rock! - Too Old for This by Samantha Downing

The Book of Doors- Guess I’m obsessed with this series now - The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

Fall in love with NOLA swamps - Grandpere's Ghost Swamp by Rachel M. Marsh

Smashing the patriarchy is a brutal business - The Poet Empress: A Novel by Shen Tao

I don’t know why I love epistolary novels so much - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Through a wizened glass - The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

“As the sensation rose, you filled with contempt for a stranger’s insanity. You had enough of your own to contend with.” - Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #2) by Tamsyn Muir

A murder mystery around a mythical history - The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

After Midnight by Daphne Du Maurier - After Midnight by Daphne Du Maurier

I think a woman should inspire a modicum of terror. It is her right. - A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander

A Change in Perspective - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

“It was like reading a book, she decided. You read the book and the words became scenes, the characters became people and they lived inside you.” - The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G. Drews - You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G. Drews

Botany, Bears and Beaver Ponds - Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

Supporting Women’s Wrongs - The Children of Gods and Fighting Men by Shauna Lawless

The Great Work Begins - Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner

“Money, money, money!” Or, greedy Victorian bastards - Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Threshold of Revelation - Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

Best Horowitz Yet - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Elastic tension lashed their cars together across space, alone on the road, nothing in his head but grief and freedom. - Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

A Great (and Chunky) Prequel - A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

In Many Ways, Very Necessary - The Afterlife of Malcolm X by Mark Whitaker

A Timely and Moving Tale About a Recent Slice of History - Wake Now In the Fire: A Story of Censorship, Action, Love, and Hope by Jarrett Dapier

“It bears out a principal axiom of Borges’ philosophy as a writer: that language is by its abstract nature almost laughably reductive of the reality we use it to represent” - Ficciones by Jorge Borges

Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King - Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King

“People – a group comprised of every sapient species, organic or otherwise – were chaos, but chaos was good. Chaos was the only sensible conclusion.” - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

Space: It’s the friends we meet - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

When the walls come tumbling down - The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel by Rabih Alameddine

This standalone fantasy goes incredibly hard. - The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

You can’t break the ties that bind - A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James

Towns that Never Were. Mountain Ranges That Were Nonexistent. And then an IKEA That Apparently Exists in a Land That Never Was. Good Times! - This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and why it matters) by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman

Not what I expected, but absolutely amazing - The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

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    on Dog Days Are Over, Bitches
    definitely some healing from religious trauma! And, Saved! is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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