The Saucy Wenches Book Club

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000

I felt like I needed to throw a dish towel over his penis and wait an hour to let it rise.

~ Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“The point isn’t that the candle won’t last the night. Everything is temporary. The point is that the light is gorgeous while it lasts.”

~ Emily St. John Mandel, Exit Party

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“You’re going to be okay. I mean, in the long run you’ll be dead, and in the short run it’s gonna be bumpy, but in the medium run... you’re golden.”

~ John Green, Hollywood Ending

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“Sadness can make us bitter or wise. We get to choose.”

~ Allen Levi, Theo of Golden: A Novel

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000

People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.

~ Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The implacability and violence of nature always awed him. That it could be entirely heedless and yet so beautiful. That awed him. But also its intricate intelligence. Its balancings. Its quiet compensations. It was like some unnamed justice permeated everything ... the workings of nature made the voracious, self-satiating intelligence of humans seem of the lowest order, not the highest.

~ Peter Heller, The River

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“...the wind sings through your very blood. You cannot be caged. You cannot be broken. They lock you away because they fear you.”

~ Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Splintered Harmony

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:00:00 +0000

“We sluggalos have a code. That code is unity, support, family, and kneecapping bitches.”

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

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“You worry too much. Ginny has butterflies in her stomach from staring at Edgar, that’s all. Maybe she feels a bit out of sorts, but a love affair does that sometimes; it drives you mad for a season.”

~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Bewitching

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

The movies loved cold-eyed assassins and flinty lone wolves. But the world needed people who wept and fought on, saps and suckers and fools who had their hearts broken but kept loving anyway, women who knew how to work magic with nothing but water and flour, a little salt, and a will that could grind iron to dust.

~ Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat

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

“People can bear shock, and tragedy, and all manner of scandal, but this nothingness drives them mad.”

~ Rebecca Perry, May We Feed the King

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

“Because men will never respect you if you try to be like them.”

Gráinne lifts her head and meets her mother’s gaze. “Then how will they respect me?”

“They won’t,” Maeve says with a shrug. Then she takes her daughter’s face in her hands and brings it close. Until their noses touch and their breath mingles. “Not unless you make them.”

~ Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen

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

“Look. I’m glad I get to know this side of you. This part of you is worth knowing. I think you don’t know that.”

Simon would like to hide right now, but he can’t, so he buries his face in Charlie’s neck.

“And that part of you deserves a place to belong and be looked after.”

Thank you for letting me do that, is what he’s supposed to say.

“And if you think I’m letting anyone else do that,” he says instead, “you’re out of your fucking mind.”

~ Cat Sebastian, Star Shipped

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

“We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.”

~ Colin Meloy, Wildwood

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

That’s how I used poetry. To understand the world. To decode, analyze, interpret, think. Gave me a huge leg up. For instance, in my government classes the professors would ask, “But does the checks and balances system really work, because if so, how do you explain Nixon?” I knew how to explain Nixon: Dante. Adultery? James Dickey. Despair? Too long to list here.

~ Bonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck

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

Inside its maw, human existence, all humans and all the things humans have ever done, said, thought, or been, are rotting into sludge. U-3125 is, in large part, the lie that U-3125 is inevitable, and indestructible. But it is a lie. She feels it, now.

~ qntm (Sam Hughes), There Is No Antimemetics Division

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

Carl: Christ. Is the whole universe filled with assholes?

Mordecai: Just the ones with the money.

~ Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods

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

Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to open an aperture in time and space, how much water it takes to keep the computing systems from frying themselves?

~ Ellery Lloyd, Time to Burn

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

“Poke around in murky waters, and things will rise to the surface. Truth is buoyant.”

~ Hernan Diaz, Ply

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

“To love a human, to fall for a human, there’s nothing like it. It’s risky, yes. But to risk is to hope, and without hope, well, we are done as a species.” He waved in the general direction of the cantina and shook his head. “A robot ... that is giving up. You’re too young to give up. I can’t let you do it.”

~ Deb Olin Unferth, Earth 7

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

Come the first of October, no matter the weather, day of the week, or physical condition of the cadets, so long as they have reached the age of twenty, the first-years of Basgiath War College’s Riders Quadrant walk into the forest in hopes of being chosen as a bonded rider by a dragon of the Empyrean. We call this monumental event Threshing.

~ Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000

She let him know, in no uncertain terms, what she thought of his loyalty to a government that prioritized its own greatness over the well-being of its people — but her disapproval only fueled his.

~ Lily Brooks-Dalton, Ruins

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“Friends are like oxygen. If you’ve been blessed enough to have always been surrounded by friends, you might think I’m overplaying this. I don’t blame you. If you’d always been surrounded by air, you wouldn’t think to credit it for your very existence either. But I’ve spent much of my life gasping for breath, so I promise you, it’s true. Friends are like oxygen.”

~ Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

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noreply@blogger.com (Kathi Alexandra Malcontent MacKenzie Fraser) — Tue, 06 Oct 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.... 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, 02 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000

“For everyone who looks around and sees only darkness, let them watch you burn and light the way”

~ Penn Cole, Burn of the Everflame