…for in that direction she saw a quiet by preventable tragedy, if only people could be brave enough to go after what they really wanted. - The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
Burnout, or, Why to Stick It to the Man - Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski; Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski
But she was color. All the color he had. - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Had his retinas not been seared by the Christmas tree dress, her dinner gown would have been the most outlandish thing he witnessed today. - Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas
“The Only Currency More Powerful than Money in this World is the Violence of Man.” - Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
“Stranger, Whoever you are, Open this to learn what will amaze you” - Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthoy Doerr
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - Needful Things by Stephen King
Black Lives Matter in Norway too - Eg snakkar om det heile tida (I talk about it all the time) by Camara Lundestad Joof; Ikkje ver redd sånne som meg (Don't be afraid of people like me) by Sumeya Jirde Ali
The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman (1962) - The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
Ah, the difficulties of shrugging off expectations - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
End Zone – Done Delillo (1972) - End Zone by Don Delillo
As They Say, a Rollicking Adventure - The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
House hunting and Lessons in Leadership for Vampires - Out of House and Home by Drew Hayes
“The women save themselves.” - What If You & Me by Roni Loren
Get out of that haus, man! - Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon
Perfectly serviceable humorous memoir about someone who seems to have his head on straight despite ingesting a truly scary amount of drugs - Yearbook by Seth Rogen
The cover of this book is as gorgeous as the writing inside it - Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Becky Chambers does it again (just…could she do it for longer???) - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
A pretty quick re-read but there’s no shame in that! - The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
“But it was a mistake thinking of that as an end. There is no end. Bad things happen, and then they stop, but they keep on wreaking havoc inside of people.” - Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
Draw Draw, Draw Your Pen Manically Across the Page - River of Ink by Etiene Appert
A middling middle - Shift by Hugh Howey
A kind of hopeful dystopia - Wool by Hugh Howey
Forever looking for my Anti-hero… - Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard; Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard; Gabriel's Redemption by Sylvain Reynard; Gabriel's Promise by Sylvain Reynard; The Prince by Sylvian Reynard
Not quite The Martian, but pretty darn good - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott (1994) - Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott
River of Earth – James Still (1940) - River of Earth by James Still
A Memory called Empire – Arkady Martine (2019) - A Memory called Empire by Arkady Martine
Epic enemies to lovers and queer romance for The Chosen One - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
“The possibility of a botanist communicating with a tree was as thrilling as the possibility of a priest chatting with god.” - Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
“In any event,” Percy went on, “what I had thought were principles were merely manners, and they’re utterly insufficient for my present circumstance.” - The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian
A sweet romance anthology involving middle-aged characters. #CBRBINGO – Rec’d - Sweetest in the Gale (There's Something About Marysburg, #3) by Olivia Dade
To Play the King - King Richard: Nixon and Watergate, An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs
Abracadabra and Up Up and Away to adventure! - Cat & Cat V01 Adventures The Quest for Snacks by Susie Yi
The Greek Gods: Soap Opera 101 - Olympians V01 Zeus: King of the Gods by George O’Connor
Haunted. - Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
The Chase Is On - The Heathens by Ace Atkins
You had Frog and Toad, Winnie-the-Pooh, and The Wind in the Willows. Now you have Skunk and Badger - Skunk and Badger #2 Egg Marks the Spot by Amy Timberlake
Body Horror - The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson
There is a curse. They say: May you live in interesting times. - Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
“Aren’t you that notorious bad girl April French?” - For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes
Do you still wish you had a river you could skate away on? - Blackwater: The complete saga by Michael McDowell
One Person Who Has Never Been in My Kitchen - Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman
The Danger of a Simple Story – Antebellum Version - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Longitude – Dava Sobel (1997) - Longitude by Dava Sobel
I think this is the first pre-apocalypse book I’ve ever read - A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
Some of her best friends are cisgender….. - Gender Pirates: An Assigned Male Comics by Sophie Labelle; The Best of Assigned Male by Sophie Labelle
Every Last Fear, and the People Affected by True Crime Entertainment - Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
In A Foreign Field - Missionaries by Phil Klay
“Look. I realize you’re a complex individual. But let’s just say that cute’s definitely in there.” - Uncharted by Adriana Anders