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4 Star Reviews

It Runs in the Family - Everything My Mother Taught Me by Alice Hoffman; Can You Feel This? by Julie Orringer; The Lion's Den by Anthony Marra; Zenith Man by Jennifer Haigh; The Weddings by Alexander Chee

Are You Super? - Pizazz by Sophy Henn

If It Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck (and Does Autocorrect Ducking Things) - (won't you let me) walk you home from school by somethingdifferent

because President Obama told me to - Long Bright River by Liz Moore

Started November 12th. Finished January 12th. The breaks in reading were NECESSARY - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Lester Papadopoulos closes it out - The Trials of Apollo : The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan

What a way to start the year - You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Daria

Artful – Ali Smith (2012) - Artful by Ali Smith

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (1962) - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Darkmans – Nicola Barker (2007) - Darkmans by Nicola Barker

Thank God for the Atom Bomb – Paul Fussell (1988) - Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays by Paul Fussell

Together We Cry - Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Marie Eatwell

The *uick Brown Fox - Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

All Hail the Queen - The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

A predictable “The story ended in friendship without any hurt feelings.” but to be continued… - My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 4 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

“Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions.” - You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi McFarlane

A queer YA space fiction that’s more about social media than space? Yes, please. - The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

Hwæt? Bro! - Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

Nostalgic favorite brought lovingly into a new format - Kristy's Great Idea: The Baby-Sitters Club by Raina Telgemeier, based on Ann M. Martin's novel

Ugh, poisoning is SO last season - #FashionVictim by Amina Akhtar

The only way to learn is to live. - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Boy Bites Man - Man Tiger (Lelaki Harimau) by Eka Kurniawan

When you write over 300 words for a book that does not have one - The Fisherman & the Whale by Jessica Lanan

Move over Lassie, Honey is in town - Honey, the Dog Who Saved Abe Lincoln by Shari Swanson

I wrote this a few hours before I heard of the current events - V Is for Voting by Kate Farrrell

An author I’m glad I gave a third try to read - The Night is for Darkness by Jonathan Stutzman

Rabbit, Run – John Updike (1960) - Rabbit, Run by John Updike

The Bogey Man – George Plimpton (1968) - The Bogey Man by George Plimpton

Beach town meets movie set meets murder mystery - Pretty as a Picture by Elizabeth Little

Charming picture book about a night time library for animals - The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara

Religious Zealots and a Proxy War in Space - The Honor or the Queen by Davie Weber

The Disney Characters in the image have nothing to do with the book, I was bored. - Avatar: The Last Airbender: Katara and the Pirates’ Silver by Faith Erin Hicks

Into the Woods We Go - (Trust) Falling For You by Charish Reid

If you need me, I’ll be exporting all of my anxiety directly to Murderbot. - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Bro – Vladimir Sorokin (2004) - Bro by Vladimir Sorokin

N or M? – Agatha Christie (1941) - N or M? by Agatha Christie

Ordeal by Innocence – Agatha Christie (1958) - Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie

TikTok made me read it! - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Young adult multiverse romance - The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Connection and poetry - The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus

The Devil’s Dictionary – sarcasm so biting it should come with a warning label - The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

It Was Kind of Different So She Never Read it Again - The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

Be Yourself, The World Will Adjust - Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Jello-Frogs and The Weird Ones - Nat Enough V01 Nat Enough by Maria Scrivan

Earth Girl Reads About Earth Boy - Earth Boy by Paul Tobin

A sweet and sour tale - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Final Jeopardy - The Answer Is....: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek

Joyeux Noël - A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

New Year, New (to me) Murderbot! - Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

A delightful YA Jewish short story collection - It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman

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