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4 Star Reviews

Magic and dragons and Aunties oh my! - Tidesong by Wendy Xu

“What yesterday was sure footing is now unstable ground.” - Doggerland by Ben Smith

“Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein.” - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

It’s a sapphic scifi romance bodyguard novella.. enough said! - Glorious Day by Skye Kilaen

Too sweet, too pure… kinda - Cinnamon Roll by Anna Zabo

Each Unhappy Family is Unhappy in Its Own Way - Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

exactly what the blurb promises–a twisty political intrigue with a bit of ~magic~ - The Councillor by E.J. Beaton

seriously bereft that I read this so quickly and that there won’t be any more - Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

A bunch of hangry Bigfeet - Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

A fake oral history of a 1970s interracial rock duo. - The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

Double Cannonballing with a good series-ender. - Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3) by K.J. Charles

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers (1940) - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Debt to Pleasure – John Lanchester (1996) - The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – Machado de Assis (1881) - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis

Spellbinding - Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

I Got A Plan - Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency by Lou DuBose and Jake Bernstein

Accept Vassar professorship or head off the the boonies on a dodgy errand? What’s a poor girl to do? - His Illegal Self by Peter Carey

When I say gross, I mean nasty. Do not read this while eating. - Chew, Vol.1: Taster's Choice by John Layman

The best book in this series so far. - The Devil Comes Courting (The Worth Saga, #4) by Courtney Milan

Sleepwalking hollow - The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

Bear shifters, witches and romance, oh my! - The Alpha's Affair by Dria Andersen

A Crooked Kingdom Full of Reps - Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

“I’m going up to my room now, where I may die.” - Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1) by Diana Wynne Jones

“Somewhere, beneath the howl of the wind and the groan of the trees, Falk thought he could almost hear a death knell toll.” #CBRBINGO – The Wilds - Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2) by Jane Harper

Again with the Eðians! - My Contrary Mary (Mary, #1) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

Alex irrationally hates any song with a saxophone in it. That’s the level of beautiful detail you get here. #CBRBINGO – Travel - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

“All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist.” - Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) by Martha Wells

Listener, Singer, Human - Rhythm of War: Book 4 of the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson

This is Not a Review - American Predator by Maureen Callahan

People are Strange when you’re an alien - Strange Planet: The Sneaking, Hiding, Vibrating Creature by Nathan W. Pyle

Ready, Set, B-I-N-GO start this off with a splash - Shark Summer by Ira Marcks

Who Belongs Here? - Sun and Sand by Jamila Rowser, Neil Brideau

I wish this version of Cairo really existed. #CBRBINGO – Cityscape - The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn, #0.7) by P. Djèlí Clark

“Edward Fosca was a murderer.” - The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

In this book a straight man repeatedly and affectionately calls another straight man ‘Little Butt.’ - Isn't It Bromantic? (Bromance Book Club, #4) by Lyssa Kay Adams

I am feeling a little peculiar - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Written, Not Directed, by Quentin Tarantino - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino

“The privilege of living now is that I can seat myself at the master’s table – the table of my white ancestor, a slaveholder – and interpret his world, and he has no say.” - The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty

“I am *not a tourist*. A rat climbed up my shoe yesterday, and I just let it happen. Could a tourist do *that*?” #CBRBINGO – They/She/He - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

A Romance Classic - What I Did For a Duke (Pennyroal Green, #5) by Julie Anne Long

“That’s the thing with putting yourself out of your comfort zone: once you get there, you’re like, Now I’m uncomfortable, what am I supposed to be doing?” #CBRBINGO – Libations - Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All, #1) by Alexis Hall

This has been such a good year for mysteries and caper comedies. Add this one to your list. #CBRBINGO – Pandemic - Finlay Donovan is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1) by Elle Cosimano

“The fact that they have families and parents . . . is why they shouldn’t do these things, not why we should forgive them.” #CBRBINGO – Uncannon - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Buddhism meets Psychology - The Trauma of Everyday Life by Mark Epstein

Rose is Rose is Rose is Rose - The World is Round by Gertrude Stein

Anxious People: Not what I expected, but charming - Anxious People by Frederik Backman

Come for the murder, stay for the food. - Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen, #1) by Mia P. Manansala

“That had been a little more than forty years past. Fatma was born into the world al-Jahiz left behind: a world transformed by magic and the supernatural.” - A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.5) by P. Djèlí Clark

Never Underestimate the New York Transit System - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

This is not the Deadspin writing I was expecting, and I am a million percent ok with that. - How Lucky by Will Leitch

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