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2 Star Reviews

I’ll just re-watch Glow - Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast by Marc Maron, Brendan McDonald, John Oliver (Foreward)

We should all be feminists. That’s pretty much a ‘duh’ statement, yea? - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Let’s talk about some books I got for free that weren’t all that great. - Lucky in Love, Girl in a Bad Place, Kissing Max Holden, A Match Made by Chloe by Kasie West, Kaitlin Ward, Katy Upperman, TB Pearl

The finest Hallmark movie in book format. A big warm bowl of predictability. - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

Magical timepieces - The Watchmaker's Daughter by C.J. Archer

Dr. Silkstone, pioneering forensic detective - The Dead Shall Not Rest by Tessa Harris

Double Cannonballing with a Messy Author - Trickster’s Choice/Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce

Content warnings are a thing for a reason. - Real Artists have day jobs by Sara Benincasa

A Slight Disappointment - A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley

Mostly Boring Dinners - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Snoooooooze. - Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

Goodreads confirms that it is NOT just me. - Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan

“My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.” - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Business Advice for the Previous Century (Unintentionally, I Think) - Don’t Take the Last Donut by Judith Bowman

If IKEA was built on the site of an abandoned super scary prison - Horrorstor: A Novel by Grady Hendrix

Sad story, annoying envelope - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Dark high fantasy that just didn’t do it for me. - The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks

A book that has since passed its time - You Just Don't Understand! by Deborah Tannen

Okay, first of all — the main character’s name is Hawthorne - The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti

The Knife of Not Really Getting Into It - The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

He may be able to turn a phrase, but I’m thinking Hemingway isn’t for me - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, John Slattery (narrator)

Friendship is magic - Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore by Robin Sloan

A series of lies - The Girl with the Make Believe Husband by Julia Quinn

Coney Island Love Story - The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman

Two books I don’t think I could even begin to build a bridge between - Diving Pool; Visitation Street by Yoko Ogawa; Ivy Pochoda

Anecdotes in search of a science - Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-davidowitz

This head witch needed more training - The Midnight Witch by Paula Brackston

Mean Girls - The Girls of August by Anne RIvers Siddons

Everything That I Never Told You For No Reason Other Than to be Super Frustrating - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

I feel like Alicia Silverstone in Clueless: Way harsh, Tai. - The Gloaming: Rise of the Stealth Elder Vampire by ML Worthingham

I know nothing about Finnish names - The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

Maybe Courtney Milan has spoiled me and my expectations are too high - The Best Man (Blue Heron Series - Book 1) by Kristan Higgins

More AIM conversations than I expected. - Where Am I Now by Mara Wilson

In which your hero is disappointed about his experiences with the Novel Book by Boz - Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Nope - Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

If only there were some kind of adage to warn me - A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King

I did not enjoy it. - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

I can’t muster enough feelings for this to come up with a snappy title - Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica

More like Bore: Goddess of Thunder - Thor Volume 2: Who Holds the Hammer? by Jason Aaron

OMG this was bad. Like bad, but I still wanted to read it bad. - Wicked by Joanne Fluke

Such a Disappointment - In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa

Which witch is which? - Hawkweed Prophecy by Irena Brignull

A Slow Burn That Ends in a Fizzle - Dear Aaron by Mariana Zapata

I wanted a deep dive; this was more like a splash pad - Present at the Future by Ira Flatow

A coat of many murders - The Lanvin Murders by Angela M. Sanders

Why is Frank Miller so Beloved? - Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller, John Romita Jr.

Killer look lacking in intrigue - Killer Look by Linda Fairstein

I Can Smell the Privilege from Here - The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck by Sarah Knight

I’m All for the Whimsical and Weird but… What to Heck? - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

What Did I Just Read? - The Changeling by Victor Lavalle

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