The Empathy and Kindness of Becky Chambers - The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
Life… uh… finds a way - The Last by Hanna Jameson
The princess epidemiologist fairy tale that is rather topical right now - A Princess in Theory: Reluctant Royals by Alyssa Cole
Sunset Strip - Little Green by Walter Mosley
Delightfully unsettling, Lovecraftian adventure - The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
Half-Cannonball with Murderbot (and FRIENDS!) - Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells
Teased and Tantalized but not completely fulfilled. - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Race Rules – Michael Eric Dyson (1996) - Race Rules by Michael Eric Dyson
I couldn’t put it down - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Why don’t you just marry her? - When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
Exactly what you’d expect (which isn’t bad!) - A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James
What Truth Sounds Like – Michael Eric Dyson (2018) - What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson
Flowering Judas and Other Stories – Katherine Anne Porter (1935) - Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
Swan Song – Robert McCammon (1987) - Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Against Interpretation – Susan Sontag (1966) - Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
Patriotic Gore – Edmund Wilson (1962) - Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson
A little biology, a little history - The Body by Bill Bryson
Adding politics to fairy tales makes everything more depressing - Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
A review that’s taken me over a month to actually write - The Duke and I by Julia Quinn; The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn; An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn; Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn; To Sir Philip, With Love by Julia Quinn; When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn; It's In His Kiss by Julia Quinn; On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn; The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After by Julia Quinn
About Those Kids - The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin
“I like all your worst qualities.” - The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan
Bond…Anachronism Bond - Ian Fleming's James Bond in VARGR by Warren Ellis, Jason Masters
Two tales of Charlotte - A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro; Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas
Fighting For the Right For Women To Compete - Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team by Elise Hooper
Set My Heart to A Billion - Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson
“It didn’t seem I could know it until I had lived it” - In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
Soft and angsty romance - Best Laid Plans by Roan Parrish
An assassin is the murder solver; he didn’t do this one - The Perfect Assassin by K. A. Doore
A couple sci-fi stories that I enjoyed, but which probably won’t really stick with me. - Feedback by Dennis E. Taylor; The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Dance the Night Away - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
Through the Chasm of Time - The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
But what happens next? - After Hello by Mhairi McFarlane
Mexican Gods in Wonderland - Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“I mourned not the loss of what I once had, but what had been taken from me before I drew my first breath…” - The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames by Justine Cowan
“Play play play! Now now now!” say all babies! - Play in the Wild: How Baby Animals Like to Have Fun (In the Wild). by Lita Judge
Reading Austen Is Really Just a British Travel Guide - Persuasion by Jane Austen
Like the show? Try the book! - The Duke and I by Julia Quinn; The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn; An Offer From A Gentleman by Julia Quinn; Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren
Gripping and detailed - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Questions, questions, questions - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill
Oh No There Is Only oNe BeD??? - The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
Them Kids - Not Long For This World by Gar Anthony Haywood
You know life is cruel, life is never kind - Neighborhood Watch by Joseph A. Turkot
The Salt Eaters – Toni Cade Bambara (1980) - The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
Rise of the Vermin - The Cockroach by Ian McEwan
rain, rain, go away - Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Delightfully delightful YA - You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.” - Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Morally Grey - Spare Me Your Mercy by Sammon
take a look! it’s in *this* book! - The Library Book by Susan Orlean
“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” - Dune (Dune, #1) by Frank Herbert