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3 Star Reviews

Ode to love (self & others) and the twisted path to it - Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

For the dog lovers (you’ll need tissues for the funny and the sad moments) - Hazel the Handful by Jamie Michalak and Matt Myers; Where Are You, Brontë? by Tomie dePaola and Barbara McClintock

The ghosts with the most - Gilbert and the Ghost  by Heather Pierce Stigall

The Storms story - Hurricane by Jason Chin

The size of history - We Are American, Too by Kristen Mei Chase and Jieting Chen; The Memory Cake by Caroline L. Perry and Jen Bricking

Starts off with a Firefly like crew and quickly becomes something entirely different - Honor’s Knight by Rachel Bach; Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach; Heaven’s Queen by Rachel Bach

“Once upon a time long ago I lay in my crib at Sandy Point Farm while my father lay in the next room dying.” - Once Upon a Time: A True Story by Gloria Vanderbilt

Overthinking a Celebrity Chef Memoir - Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

I want to ride my bicycle and eat noodles - Noodle on a Bicycle (Caldecott Honor Book) by Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang

When Matty was gone - The Hole by Lindsay Bonilla

Dark magic - Muted: Volume 1 by Miranda Mundt

Hiking through boyhood “shoulds” - When You’re a Boy by Blake Nuto

Charles Addams, Shel Silverstein, AA Milne and Edward Gorey had a baby this would be its cousin. - The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds by John Himmelman

“I don’t know what to do. I’d normally never go for a guy like him.” - White Liar by Tomo Serizawa

“When we were growing up, our parents wouldn’t buy us things, so we worked hard and now we can: buy all volumes of manga, buy toys in bulk, buy DVD box sets” - Insufficient Direction by Moyoco Anno

The Game Might Be Changing but not the Characters - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! v.9 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

Mixing Things Up When Set In Their Ways - The Dinner Lady Detectives by Hannah Hendy

Like being on a pleasant scenic drive and then plummeting off a cliff to a fiery death - Playground by Richard Powers

I’m not any better at meditating now - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Love: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly - Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott

“For four years we spied and we worked damn hard and we saved people’s lives and we made a difference and nobody cared too much that we were women. And then it all ended.” - The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre by Natasha Lester

I picked a couple fun images from online, but the whole book I wish I could publish here! - Monster Cats Vol. 1? by Pandania

My images might be messy but the book isn’t - Everybody Scream!: Disney Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas: Pop Up, Play, and Display! (Uplifting Editions) by Disney and Evie Day

Feline funnies and a menagerie of creatures - Cockatiels for Two: A Book of Cat Cartoons by Leo Cullum; Tequila Mockingbird: A Book of Animal Cartoons by Leo Cullum

It lost originality points, but makes up for it with important representation points - Pride by Eric Huang and Amy Phelps

Chloe, Maude and Sandra - Chloe and Maude, by Sandra Boynton

“That was the entire horror of it. But I didn’t know how to explain that.” - Sea Legs by Jules Bakes and Niki Smith

“I can’t help wondering whether I was born under a galaxy of lucky stars.” - I Married the World by Elsa Maxwell

“Things have been going pretty well:” Famous Last Words in a Romance Manga - Our Sweet One-Room Apartment by Kamoburger

You’re Watching Disney Channel - Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire by Ashley Spencer

Sweet and and a Little Salty - Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman

A little disappointing - Something Wilder by Christina Lauren

Picture books! Picture books! Take a look! - Night Flight by David Barclay Moore and Briana Mukodiri Uchendu; One Diwali Day: Festivals of the World by Dev Kothari and Aditi Anand

“Reading is a pact of generosity between author and reader.” - Literature & Existentialism by Jean-Paul Sartre

Yet another once-promising series traveling an unfortunate path - Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

Off Ice Problems - Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Don’t pass on these Passover books - An Invitation to Passover by Rabbi Kerry Olitzky, Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen and Mariia Kolker; Why On This Night? : A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration by Rahel Musleah and Louise August

I don’t know why you shouldn’t trust a fish, but you can read this book to find out…and then there is a bonus book too - Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson; Fiona and the Peculiar Praise by Rennie Dyball

Wagnificent tail… tale - Wagnificent V02 A New Dog in the Den by Bethanie Murguia; Wagnificent V01 The Adventures of Thunder and Sage by Bethanie Murguia

To laugh at - How to Make a Lion Laugh (How to Make Them Laugh) by Chris Cate; Ho-Ho-Ho-Larious Christmas Jokes (How to Make Them Laugh) by Chris Cate

The Original “Poor Little Rich Girl” - Million Dollar Baby by Philip Van Rensselaer

An intriguing mystery revealed in an unintriguing way - The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

Busy Bog Bodies - Broken Ground (Karen Pirie #5) by Val McDermid

The 800-page Gorilla - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Don’t you know there’s a war on? - Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

First of three interconnected prequel stories to Vox Machina, - The Legend of Vox Machina: The Whitestone Chronicles Volume 1 Ripley by Critical Role, Tyler Walpole and Marieke Nijkamp

A Meeting of the Tortured Poets Society - Tangled in Knots: A Dark Omegaverse Novel by Jenn Bullard

Is She Really Going Out with Him? by Sophie Cousens - Is She Really Going Out with Him? by Sophie Cousens

Track Her Down by Melinda Leigh - Track Her Down by Melinda Leigh

Not the book I was expecting… - The Luminaries by Susan Dennard

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