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3 Star Reviews

You don’t look like a scientist - The Clues Are in the Poo: The Story of Dinosaur Scientist Karen Chin by Karen Chin and Jane Kurtz

More disturbing than I expected - The Girl's I've Been by Tess Sharpe

Just Walk Forward - Last Flight by Kristen Mai Giang

The ghosts are in the house - Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories by Roald Dahl

World of Garvey - Garvey’s Choice: The Graphic novel by Nikki Grimes

She’s got the beat - Pitch Perfect and Persistent!: The Musical Debut of Amy Cheney Beach by Caitlin DeLems

Yeah, I Don’t Know - Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg

Adventures in Bedtime Reading - How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

The beautiful stuff - Duck, Duck, Tiger by Brittany R. Jacobs; For the Beauty of the Earth by Folliott S. Pierpoint

And I thought I needed a raise - Vern, Custodian of the Universe by Tyrell Waiters

Travel with books - Tomorrow Is New Year's Day: Seollal, A Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year by Aram Kim; One White Crane: A Bilingual Counting Book of the Months by Vickie Lee

Generations - My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott; Babo: A Tale of Armenian Rug-Washing Day by Astrid Kamalyan; Dadaji’s Paintbrush by Rashmi Sirdeshpande

“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.” - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelvy Van Pelt

Peanuts, Cracker Jack, pop flies . . . and physics? - Science, Matter and the Baseball Park by Catherine Ciocchi; Finley: A Moose on the Caboose by Candace Spizzirri

To continue the summer of Freida… - The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

I was on a “And Then There Were None” kick with mixed results - One by One by Freida McFadden; One by One by Ruth Ware

Something of a Letdown But Compelling Enough That I’m Still Reading This Series - A Shadow of Crows by Yasmine Galenorn

There Are Runners and Then There Are RUNNERS - Solo by Jenny Tough

Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI series - Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #3 Shadow of Death by Heather Graham; Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #1 Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham; Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #2 Crimson Summer by Heather Graham

More Freida! - The Inmate by Freida McFadden

Returning to CBR after the summer of moving! - Never Lie by Freida McFadden

Warfare of soccer at Bull Run Regional Park (and other stuff) - Team Photograph by Lauren Haldeman

The other first Radio City Rockette - She Kept Dancing: The True Story of a Professional Dancer with a Limb Difference by Sydney Mesher and Catherine Laudone

Two women doing their things - A Take-Charge Girl Blazes and Trail to Congress: The Story of Jeannette Rankin by Gretchen Woelfle; Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Path to Kindness by Aura Lewis

Is this your kind of fun? - Not Perfect by Maya Myers; We Light Up the Sky with Music! by Nick Maland

Does *not* do what it says on the tin. Where be the witches? - In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet

“Danger for Black girls was different. It didn’t obey the boundaries of stories. For them, it was always real.” - Jackal by Erin E. Adams

“There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet.” - The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

More dangerous park, less memoir, please. - Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park by Andy Mulvihill & Jake Rossen

A basic intro to some famous cults. - Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler & Kevin Conley

A solid mystery/thriller set in Wales. - The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh

This is the biography review - Gifts from Georgia's Garden: How Georgia O'Keeffe Nourished Her Art by Lisa Robinson; Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows; A Grand Idea: How William J. Wilgus Create Grand Central Terminal by Megan Hoyt

Hanging with my pals - Otis & Peanut by Naseem Hrab; A Bone for Bo: Painting with Georgia O’Keefe by Joan Waites

Oversells the puzzles somewhat - The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Science, but fun - Angela’s Glacier by Jordan Scott; Climbing the Volcano by Curtis Manley

Read Me, Now!…. Please - A Star Explodes: The Story of Supernova 1054 by James Gladstone; We're Not Weird: Structure and Function in the Animal Kingdom by Michael Garland

Interesting Developments Dragged Down by the Main Plot - Iron Bones by Yasmine Galenorn

Where are my footnotes? - Freakonomics by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner

The brain can go wrong in some crazy ways - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

This never quite came together for me, but it was interesting along the way. - Flux by Jinwoo Chong

“Our minds do this all the time. They talk us out of things we don’t want to know.” - Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen

The stranger and the story - The Voice in the Hollow by Will Hillenbrand

Ah! Love! - Eyes That Weave the World’s Wonders by Joanna Ho; Love Grows by Ruth Spiro; Say It with Me (Dilo Conmigo) by Nancy S. Torres

I read a little bit - Pockets for Two: A Collection of Girlhood by Lindsay Ward; Beneath by Cori Doerrfeld; Hedgehog and the Art Show by Ozge Bahar Sunar

So, my neighbor is a dinosaur - Bolivar by Sean Rubin

Horror Month 2023: #6 - The Darkness of Others by Cate Holahan

The author’s love for the story and man - Enlightened by Sachi Ediriweera

All it needed was Brendan Frasier - Fantasy Sports V01: Court of Souls by Sam Bosma

Women’s Work is Never Done - Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick

Cold Case Turned Deadly Hunt - Oak and Thorns by Yasmine Galenorn

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