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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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“My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.” - Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

Put this in your bug-out bag - How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters: Fight Back When Monsters and Mother Nature Attack by Andrew Shaffer

Bradbury was the Best! - Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Someone pay me to travel around Europe eating tasty food and kissing cute boys. - An Age of License by Lucy Knisley

Clown disquiet - It by Stephen King

Re-reading an old favorite. - The Invasion (Animorphs, #1) by K.A. Applegate

An uncommon perspective - A Book of Uncommon Prayer by Brian Doyle

“Pluto is dead” –Mike Brown - How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown

Demonic boogaloo and the electric slide - John Dies at the End by David Wong

Keeping up with the Walkers - Abigail Tarttelin by Golden Boy

“The definition of sanity is a democratic thing. They get to decide…” - Calvin by Martine Leavitt

Always Dance it Out - Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

The Divine Phryne… - Urn Burial (Miss Fisher's Mysteries # 8) by Kerry Greenwood

Breaking with Scientology - Troublemaker: surviving hollywood and scientology by Leah Remini with Rebecca Paley

I finally read it too - The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Bowen

So what happens after your life is publicly ruined? - The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet by Kate Rorick and Rachel Kiley

See Meryl drawl. See Meryl rip off her wig. - August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

The Great Awakening - Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Reach for the stars; there goes Jupiter, here comes Mars. - Good Morning Yoga by Mariam Gates; Sarah Jane Hindler, Illustrator

Leah Remini does good Scientology memoir. - Troublemaker: Surving Scientology and Hollywood by Leah Remini, with Rebecca Paley

Every story really needs a Han Solo - Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Simplicity was easier than precision - City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg

We will recognize each other, and see ourselves for the first time the way we really are - The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

Imagine Russia Kidnapped Brangelina to Make Putin Propaganda - A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer

Proud member of the Carol Corps, checking in for duty, sir. - Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps by Kelly Sue DeConnick & David López

Kamala is my squishy muffin. - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 4: Last Days by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona

Sure. Fine. Whatever. - Weird Girl and What's His Name by Meagan Brothers

Hot Hockey Hickies? - Game Play by Lynda Aicher

- Still Life, A Fatal Grace. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

The comfort of the familiar - The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potsch

The cutest little old ladies - Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

I think she was high when she came up with the title - Once Upon a Marquess by Courtney Milan

Sisters Seem Fun Sometimes, Sometimes Not So Fun - Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty

“She was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. “ - Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) by Raymond Chandler

Beware the white whale - Moby Dick by Herman Melville

We all need a little mystery to shroud us from time to time - Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Feminists - My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

You could never get away with this in 2016, that’s for sure - The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley #1) by Patricia Highsmith

In which I hold back and refrain from geeking out about technology.. - Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

Confessions of a Planet Killer - How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown

The American Dream as an iridescent admonition. - The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Against All Odds - Still Missing by Chevy Stevens

When You Know WHO Done It, But You Want to Know Why - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Dublin Murder Squad #1 - In the Woods by Tana French

An American in Paris - Bringing up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman

The last Magic Ex Libris book doesn’t disappoint. - Revisionary (Magic Ex Libris, #4) by Jim C. Hines

Spain and pirates and swordfighting! Oh my! - Zorro by Isabel Allende

Destructive by Nature/Alternate Title: How are ANY of them alive?! - Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

I Say Ya Kill Your Heroes and Fly - Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Darn Hooch - Sweet Pepper Hero by J.J.Cook

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