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3 Star Reviews

Something is a buzz with Pea and Bee - Pea, Bee, & Jay V04 Farm Feud by Brian “Smitty” Smith

When Nimbus met Kelp - Perfectly Pegasus by Jessie Sima; Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima

The stories behind the story - Tales from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins

He’s just…. Ralph. - Ralph Azham V01 Black Are the Stars by Lewis Trondheim

Full of Bad Conclusions, But Readable Overall - The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters

“Peterson remembered with a smile that the US Department of the Interior had made a thorough prediction of trends in 1937, and had missed atomic energy, computers, radar, antibiotics, and World War II. Yet they all kept on, with this simple-minded linear extrapolation that was, despite a bank of computers to refine the numbers, still merely a new way to be stupid in an expensive fashion.” - Timescape by Gregory Benford

A Nutcracker retelling, but still for ballet lovers - Midnight in Everwood by M.A. Kuzniar

I like the illustrations - The Midnight Club by Shane Goth

This book is bubblier and more playful than the cover would indicate. - The Neighbor's Secret by L. Alison Heller

Her Name Was Mary Katharine and she (kinda) signed the Declaration of Independence. - Her Name Was Mary Katharine: The Only Woman Whose Name Is on the Declaration of Independence by Ella Schwartz

Double Dutch? I have enough trouble with one rope! - Fly by Brittany J. Thurman

A time-bending locked room mystery - The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Winging It - Winging It by Emma Murray

Time Out - Time Out by Emma Murray

Reminders of Him - Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover

Incense and Sensibility - Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev

Red Bones - Red Bones by Ann Cleeves

Crystal Gardens - Crystal Gardens by Amanda Quick

White Smoke - White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

New year, already behind in reviews… =| - Mrs. England by Stacey Halls

Fartleks are Funny - How to make Yourself Poop and 999 Other Tips All Runners Should Know by Meghan Kita

Rainbow Rowell does COVID (with a dash of love) - If the Fates Allow by Rainbow Rowell

Good Book That’s Not Quite For Me - Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

Enjoyable read, in spite of being the weakest in the series - A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz

Stoic self-help book - The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

Home Is a Lonely, Wind-Lashed Isle - The Lost Lights of St Kilda by Elisabeth Gifford

Not a bad ending but a little uneven with the science and the story - Cells at Work! vol. 6 by Akane Shimizu

Give me space! - Eight Short Science Fiction Stories by Ray Bradbury

The Public World and the Private Domain - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

“Books have a soul” - The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa

Travel Back to 2004 - Never Tell by Selena Montgomery

“I still knew I was going to keep my lion and train him.” - Here, Keller -- Train This by George Keller

It’s Nutcracker Season, Y’all - The Turnout by Megan Abbott

Should I give my frog a mug of hot chocolate too? - Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate? How Animals Keep Warm by Etta Kaner

You are what you eat and more - Tomatoes in My Lunchbox by Costantia Manoli

I’m Team Glue, but I see the Importance of Glitter - When Glitter Met Glue (When Pencil Met Eraser) by Karen Kilpatrick

“It’s Not My Place to Patrol Your Life:” Queer SF Romance Strikes Again - Curveball by Jeremy Sorese

I wish I may, I wish I might, have a friend to play with tonight - The Witchling’s Wish by Lu Fraser

Beware of Bored Women! - Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov

Half-baked fantasy, over-baked drama. - The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1) by Olivie Blake

She might be slow, but she will (eventually) solve the crime! - Sloth Slueth by Cyndi Marko

“Stranger than fiction – certainly more outsized, surreal and outrageous than anything you’d expect to encounter” - Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen

“If You’re Not Happy, Maybe Ask Yourself If It’s Worth It” - Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia

Old fashion feel to a book of today - Sweeping Up the Heart by Kevin Henkes

So Glad I Didn’t Die Before I Met You - Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

Riverdale meets Ferris Bueller’s Day Off meets Ted Lasso - You'll Be the Death of Me by Karen M. McManus

Two books about the brain (kinda) - Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson; This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe

Reminded Me Why I’m Not Into the Beatniks - Beatnik Buenos Aires by Diego Arandojo

Midwestern High End but how Representational Is it? - Dishing Up Minnesota by Teresa Marrone

“It was difficult to have an opinion when his antagonist kept breaking the rules of reality.” - Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard

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