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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe, bland, and emollient thing. In a certain sense, the suspicious Tories and militant philistines are right: intellect is dangerous - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it. - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

#CBR10Bingo: White Whale – The Truth About Forever - The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don’t. - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

People Fear What They Don’t Understand - Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

#CBR10 Bingo – So Shiny: My Plain Jane - My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows

Buying Dave Robicheaux Another Round - Burning Bright by Nick Petrie

“I can wait for the galaxy outside to get a little kinder.” (CBR10Bingo) - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Where exactly have you spent these past three years, my Lord? Among some Amazon tribe? - The River of No Return by Bee Ridway

Hooked Until the Epilogue - A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua

Come along Childe and visit a new world - Estranged by Ethan M. Aldridge

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. - Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell

A Joyful Celebration - Jubilee by Patricia Reilly Giff

Engaging story with a couple of leaps - The Book of M by Peng Shepherd

Entangled Lives (CBR10 BINGO) - While I Was Sleeping by Dani Atkins

For all the brutal women - The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley

An Award-Winning Milan Novella (CBR10Bingo) - Her Every Wish (The Worth Saga #1.5) by Courtney Milan

Hooking up at a con still seems like a dicey proposition. - What Happens at Con (Fandom Hearts #4) by Cathy Yardley

Revisiting Cormoran and Robin (CBR10Bingo) - The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling pseudonym), Robert Glenister (narrator)

I underlined so many things in this book. In pen. Pink pen. - F*ck Feelings by Michael I Bennett MD & Sarah Bennett

The Ghosts of Anti-Semitism Haunt Holland Through Soccer - Ajax, The Dutch, The War by Simon Kuper

All Empires Fall, Eventually - Lexicon by Max Barry

What would you do if you found a bag of money? - Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

Don’t do me like that - The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

Dead Man Upright: An Elegy for Derek Raymond - Dead Man Upright by Derek Raymond

Not as good as the first, but still fun. - The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Right book, right time. - The False Prince (The Ascendance Trilogy, #1) by Jennifer A. Nielsen

“Excellent!” I cried. “Elementary,” said he. #CBRBingo - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Finally, A Jane Eyre I Can Get Behind - My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

I’ll be on my way - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

Read this for all the sick Mr. Rochester burns. - My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies, #2) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

Texas noir. #CBRBingo - Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) by Attica Locke

Have some actual sourdough ready before you start. #CBRBingo - Sourdough by Robin Sloan

A fascinating oral history of Star Trek, the first 25 years. - The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman

This review is mostly gifs of African pygmy hedgehogs. - Making Up (London Celebrities, #3) by Lucy Parker

Halt! Who Goes there? Friends or Foes…? - Friends and Foes: Poems About Us All by Douglas Florian

“This Isn’t a Wonderful Place for Boys to Play and Have Adventures” - Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry

The Book was Better #CBRBingo - Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant by Shrabani Basu

SO Shiny #CBRBingo - War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow

Surprisingly, This is Not for the “Book is Better” Square - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

First Day of School and Not all is Well! - Twig by Aura Parker

I Only Now Realized the Double Meaning of the Title … - Making Up by Lucy Parker

What Happens After the War? - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over” - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Chomp down on a good book - Alpaca Lunch by Jennifer Churchman and John Churchman

An Old theme told again - Pink Is for Boys by Robb Pearlman

I always love a good school/training sequence - The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst

So Much More Shade Than I Remembered (and I thought I remembered a decent amount) - Persuasion by Jane Austen

Why is it always the deal breakers that end up the hero in fairy tales? - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

The escort with the dragon tattoo - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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