A satisfying end to the year’s re-read - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Pacific Dreams - Five Decembers by James Kestrel
“Stories change with the tellers.” - The Conductors by Nicole Glover
Modern Day Epistolary Romances - Call Me Maybe by Cara Bastone; Sweet Talk by Cara Bastone
Smile Through the Pain - Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (2021) - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
We have reached the throwing things stage - Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Oh, ever in the greening spring… - The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Familiar and New Sci Fi - Binti: the Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
Manic murderous imposter syndrome dream construct - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
The Land Breakers – John Ehle (1964) - The Land Breakers by John Ehle
This was a fun surprise! - Fence: Striking Distance by Sarah Rees Brennan
A detailed, non-science based theorem I have no business sharing with anyone - Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
Too many unexpected developments = a super vague (but not spoilery) review - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
A tribute to the fitting end to a wonderful book series - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
Smash the demon lizard patriarchy. - The Gilded Ones (Deathless, #1) by Namina Forna
It’s good, but it made me cringe - Luster by Raven Leilani
A must read even if it’s not your type of book (which I assumed it wouldn’t be!) - Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Murderbot has become an addiction now - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells; Exit Strategy by Martha Wells; Home: Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells; Network Effect by Martha Wells
Sure, it’s a dystopia, but it’s a very comforting one - The Home I Find With You by Skye Kilaen
Get out of your own head and into a soul band - The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
A Writer Writing About a Writer Writing - Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Murder most historical - Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky
Friendships, late nights and feminism - Giant Days Volume One by John Allison
How we make our own unhappiness - The Situation Is Hopeless, But Not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness by Paul Watzlawick
“It’s enough to drive anyone mad.” - Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft
A Fan’s Notes – Fredrick Exley (1968) - A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
Whether we are or not - We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
A Book of Many Lives in Few Words - The Many Lives of Pusheen the Cat by Claire Belton
Delicious food, family shenanigans, and drunk cooking show audition videos - Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron
“There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.” - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Go for launch - All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair - Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran
A Bananapants Guide to Rescuing Cats - Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston
The perfection of imperfection - Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence by Joel Christian Gill
She was all danger, all aerial murder waiting to happen - The Jaguar Knight by Ann Aguirre
When The Reporters Become the News - Knife Edge by Simon Mayo
quiet duty, questionable faith, and children taking on the burdens of their parents - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Perfume – Patrick Suskind (1985) - Perfume by Suskind
“Nobody thought of it as history, herstory, my-story, your-story, or our-story. We were being denied a place to dance together. That’s all. The total charisma of a revolution in our CONSCIOUSNESS rising from the gutter to the gut to the heart and the mind was here. Non-existence (or part existence) was coming into being, and being into becoming. Our Mother Stonewall was giving birth to a new era and we were the midwives.” - The Stonewall Reader by The New York Public Library
“Oops, we got married in Vegas” – a thoughtfully explored friends-to-lovers romance - Waking Up Married by Reese Ryan
“Mouths always open, minds never so” - Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden
Ye Olde Childrearing - Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children by Therese O'Neill
Great Escape - Dear Leader by Jang Jin-Sung
Entangled Life – Merlin Sheldrake (2020) - Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Escaping for an afternoon - I pucking love you by Pippa Grant; Crazy for loving you: a Bluewater billionaires romantic comedy by Pippa Grant
“I’m dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.” - Death Masks (The Dresden Files #5) by Jim Butcher
Earthlings (2018) – Sayaka Murata - Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside movement - We Served the People: My Mother’s Stories by Emei Burell
The next year’s worth of baking fun shall be most educational - Oats in the North Wheat from the South by Regula Ysewijn