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4 Star Reviews

Fun with Family Secrets - Spy x Family vol 4 by Tatsuya Endo

Who wants to date a professional athlete? - Blitzed by Alexa Martin

“I grew up with nightmares but they are living through nightmares.” - The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Who is really lost here? - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Friends writing a story about friendship - I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones

“Are there really public servants out there sucking terrorist tongues for my freedom?” - Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West

“Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.” - Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

John Slattery as an AI - The Municipalists: A Novel by Seth Fried

“I am not asking a stranger, I’m asking my best friend.” - The Friend Contract by Dria Andersen

“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.” - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

In which a shocking shift in tone and genre works wonderfully - Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley

“I’m saying I think we could take care of each other.” - Method Acting by Adele Buck

Move over RuPaul there are new queens (and kings) in town - Kings, Queens and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteiu

“A kiss might be blameless, so long as it was the other person doing the leaning. Was it your fault, really, if someone else kissed you?” - The Portrait of a Mirror by A. Natasha Joukovsky

Perfume, Chocolate, and Spies - The Scent of Secrets by Jane Thynne

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

“We look after each other.” - The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

“I’m not distracted. I’m focused on what matters most.” - Love in Color by Bolu Babalola

Ghost in the Machine - U Up? by Cate Disabato

How the South Won the Civil War – Heather Cox Richardson (2020) - How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson

The Armies of the Night – Norman Mailer (1968) - The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer

Blood Colony – Tananarive Due (2008) - Blood Colony by Tananarive Due

The Atmospherians – Alex McElroy (2021) - The Atmospherians by Lex McElroy

Time for the Stars – Robert A Heinlein (1956) - Time for the Stars by Robert A Heinlein

This was a fun series, you should read it - To Catch a Thief by Sloane Steele

Plural Marriage Made Interesting - The Wives by Tarryn Fisher

A comfortable, enjoyable conclusion to an overall fun trilogy - The Conjurer by Luanne G. Smith

Potentially Royally Unfair Tutoring - The Royal Tutor vol 13 by Higasa Akai

Ladies do buddy cop stuff in early 20th century steampunk Egypt - A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark

“Breaking takes less effort than building, that is the way of the world.” - The Helm of Midnight by Marina J. Lostetter

Jerry World - My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

Mar(e)io of Rocksburg (Easttown) - The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes by K.C. Constantine

A science fiction anthology about time and the power of hope - I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories by Kim Bo-young

The Wife Between Us - The Wife Between Us  by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

“I can’t excuse what he did next except by saying that he was very sorry for it afterward (and so were a good many other people).” - The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis

“Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.” - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

I’m a cat person, Beanie, but I still love you. - What’s Up Beanie?: Acutely Relatable Comics by Alina Tysoe

Family - Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up in My Immigrant Family? by Marisabina Russo

The Masks We Wear - Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

Reading a CBR Book Exchange Gift. Thanks again, andtheIToldYouSos! - Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

“One night. I just want one night of sleep”…”Is it that too much to to ask? One night where I don’t have to babysit or dig up a corpse?…” - The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson

So much fun it helped with my reading slump! - Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

So Many Experiences and Stories All Tied into One - There There by Tommy Orange

Messin with Sasquatch - Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

A book I might have wanted to write for myself - The Councillor by E.J. Beaton

The Next-to-Last Time I was Shot Out of a Cannon (and other often strangely fantastical stories) - Fly Already by Etgar Keret

A weird book I had a lot of things to say about. - A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) by Deborah Harkness

In which we have an abundance of evidence that Tolkien *really* had a thing for eagles. - The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

An excellent anthology of disabled authors from a variety of perspectives. - Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century by ed. Alice Wong

“She had lifted me to her star…” - Olivia by Dorothy Strachey

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