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4 Star Reviews

There Is a Castle On an Island…I Like to Go there in my Sleep - The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

“…reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.” - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A review from somone who comparatively knew very little about octopuses - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

Magical Realism and Baked Goods - Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber

Isn’t it nice to discover we’re not exactly what we thought we were. - Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

I don’t want to lend this book to my mother. - All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton

I reread this book specifically so I could start CBR 13 with it. - Neanderthal Seeks Human by Penny Reid

A strong heroine, political intrigue, and magic? Yup, it’s YA fantasy time! - The Frozen Crown by Greta Kelly

Lessons Learned - Apt Pupil by Stephen King

A Sad Reminder That We Are STILL Debating These Issues - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

For a YA Victorian-era mystery with diversity, turn here - A Spy in the House (The Agency #1) by Y. S. Lee

Dawn – An intriguing take on human-alien interactions - Dawn by Octavia Butler

Racism but with Rabbits - The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

Is It Bad If You Figure Out The Mystery? - The Guest List by Lucy Foley

“A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.” - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

“Nobody saw a half-Chinese boy of thirteen and thought, ‘By George, that child must be a duke.'” - The Duke Who Didn't (Wedgeford Trials, #1) by Courtney Milan

Boldly Going Where No Woman had gone before (Well, that was the Soviet Union, but the US had firsts, too) - Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier by Jim Ottaviani

What happens when you ban freedom? - Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook

A Bard, A Fae, A Wolf and a Crow walk into a bar and start a fight - Fantastic Tales of Nothing by Alejandra Green

Two women. Two powerhouses - The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne by  Lesa Cline-Ransome; Marie Curie and the Power of Persistence by Karla Valenti

This one deserved better than I gave it - The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Take a trip to the other side of the world and find yourself - Ichiro by Ryan Inzana

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? - The Seeds by Ann Nocenti

Want a Ride? - Afterlift by Chip Zdarsky

Old Herbaceous – Reginald Arkell (1948) - Old Herbaceous by Reginald Arkell

Pass me ALL the tissues - Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

A Smuggler’s Bible – Joseph McElroy (1966) - A Smuggler's Bible by Joseph McElroy

Amazon’s Forward Collection is half-apocalyptic, half Black Mirror - Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin; Ark by Veronica Roth; Rand0m1ze by Andy Weir; You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles; The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay; Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

Borderline Personality Disorder Unpacked - Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking your life back when someone you care about has borderline personality disorder by Paul T Mason and Randi Kreger

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a cookie look smug. - A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

Gemini Soul - Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz

If I Had a Rock Hammer - Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

An apt metaphor for the gap in educational attainment – The Ninth House - The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Hooray for the Book Exchange, and hooray for narfna! - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Lawyer Stuff - The Defense by Steve Cavanagh

“Charlie was always preaching love. Charlie had no idea what love was. Charlie was so far from love it wasn’t even funny. Death is Charlie’s trip.” - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi

I forgot to remember to forget… - The Binding by Bridget Collins

A stylish start to a trilogy filled with welcomed diversity - The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis

The coziest of crime scenes - Yarned and Dangerous (Tangled Web Mystery Book 1) by Sadie Hartwell

DUNE - Dune by Frank Herbert

A Glastonbury Romance – John Cowper Powys (1932) - A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys

Cheese – Willem Eslchott (1932 - Cheese by Willem Elschott

The League of Extraordinary Women Strikes Again - A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore

Food, at it’s best, ought to make you feel at home - Authentically Mexican: A Family History in Six Dishes by JP Brammer

My Kind of 10-Year Reunion - Worship by Jack Harbon

Legendary you think you are - Legendary Children by Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez

Until the mountains are no more, I will love you - Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins

A YA Book that Quotes Richard Wright - The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket

They fought the law, and everybody won. - About a Girl: A Mother's Powerful Story of Raising Her Transgender Child by Rebekah Robertson with Georgie Stone

The real bookstore was the friends we made along the way - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane

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