The Saucy Wenches Book Club

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

We embrace and I think of all the other men and women who must have sat beside this ancient hearth, sharing their good news. The centuries pass but the hope and optimism that accompanies each new family at its beginning is the same. What else is there in life, really, of such significance? This momentary pause in which everything changes.

~ Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Once we’re comfortable with death, we’ll do a better job with our lives.

~ Ann Patchett, Whistler

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“I’m fucked,” he murmured in Russian. “I am so fucking in love and it’s horrible.”

~ Rachel Reid, The Long Game

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“Love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril, despite your better sense.”

~ Lily King, Heart the Lover

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“Books ... are mirrors for the soul. So if you catch a glimpse of someone’s soul, you will know the mirror for them.”

~ Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

~ Frank Herbert, Dune

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“You want to throw me down. And I, prideful, disdainful, godless, want to drag you into the dirt with me.”

~ Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“You’re supposed to yell fire, though. Because no one comes when you yell rape, didn’t you know that, Bunny?”

~ Mona Awad, Bunny

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

What redemption there is in being loved: we are always our best selves when loved by another. Nothing can replace this.

~ Maggie O’Farrell, Land

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

You keep trying to divide us. Don’t you realize what you’ve created? We have been tempered in the fires of hell, and we are now past the point of being broken. Your downfall has already been written in the stars. You may hurt us. You may kill us all. But it’s not going to matter.

~ Matt Dinniman, A Parade of Horribles
(Dungeon Crawler Carl #8)

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“I didn’t expect I’d be wishing there was alcohol on this mission as early as Day One, but here we are.”

~ Mason Coile (Andrew Pyper), Exiles

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“True love doesn’t expire, Raeve. It clings to you like a weight, even when you’re drowning.”

~ Sarah A. Parker, The Ballad of Falling Dragons

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”

~ John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Power was the ability to destroy without needing to. To do it not out of necessity, but as an act of pure excess.

~ Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Kissing George was like stepping inside a house I’d never seen but somehow knew was home.

~ Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

If you give a girl a taste of fresh air and then take it away, she will grow fierce and wild to get that fresh air back again.

~ Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

I am not a snob. I just take books more seriously than other people and am bad at pretending otherwise.

~ Laurie Frankel, Enormous Wings

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

So blind we humans are — so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have... But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another’s selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see.

~ Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“Oh God! He said he was DTF...we thought that meant down to finance.”

Tilly lets out a wallop of a laugh. “DTF...girl, that’s the acronym for down to fuck.”

~ Meghan Quinn, Rules for the Summer

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“There comes a point in every marriage when a woman realizes that the man she married is a freak. This is inevitable. It cannot be avoided. The only real question in the matter is what type of freak your husband will be—meaning: if you are lucky, you will find out your husband is preternaturally into vintage children’s train sets, and you will not find out that your husband pays high school cheerleaders for sex. That is the best we homemakers can hope for in this life: a man whose freakishness is not unspeakably violent or technically illegal, and therefore is something we are able to bear.”

~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

The ocean was a magician, I saw that now. These waves, their rippling crests and troughs, were an illusory trick, a veneer for everything that existed beneath. I had glimpsed that other world, and the one I had been born into was transformed forever.

~ EJ Swift, The Coral Bones

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

It’s just that we’re destroying the planet for real and no one seems to give a shit — and then something bad happens to one of us, a human being, and it’s “earth-shattering”.

~ Eric Puchner, Dream State

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“You are not replaceable,” he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. “You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people.”

~ SenLinYu, Alchemised

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

One afternoon, as I lay on my bed wallowing in self-pity, my mom handed me a thick fantasy book, and when I turned my nose up at it, she told me, “Maggie, you need to live in someone else’s head for a bit.”

~ Ilona Andrews, This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“It turns out executing a deliberate, convincing distraction is a lot harder than being a distraction accidentally.”

~ Martha Wells, Platform Decay
(The Murderbot Diaries #8)