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4 Star Reviews

Greatest romance novel cover of all time? Possibly. It’s gotta be in the running. - Crazy Stupid Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #3) by Lyssa Kay Adams

Pivotal but not admirable - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

Nothing is harder, than to do nothing. - How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell

The title pretty much gives you the tone - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Hard to digest through no fault of the book - Gulp by Mary Roach

Picture books are fun - Packs: Strength in Numbers by Hannah Salyer; Share Some Kindness, Bring Some Light by Apryl Stott; Macaroon Mouse the Christmas Eve Adventure by Nancy Brigham

Enjoyable sports romance. - Fumbled (Playbook, #2) by Alexa Martin

“The truth is we don’t know what we don’t know. We don’t even know the questions we need to ask in order to find out, but when we learn one tiny little thing, a dim light comes on in a dark hallway, and suddenly a new question appears.” - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

We can rebuild it, we have the technology - Smarter, Better, Faster by Charles Duhigg

“Because it’s easy to ignore a woman . . . But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch.” - The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

What if your school was always trying to kill you? - A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) by Naomi Novik

When One Book Closes, here are two others - Wild about Dads by Diana Murray; Little Monster Trucks GO! by Doug Cenko; I Will Dance by Nancy Bo Flood

Environmental Science for the younger crowd - Oil by Jonah Winter

Bunch of goodies - Green on Green by Dianne White; I Believe I Can by Grace Byers; Everyone's Awake by Colin Meloy; An Ordinary Day by Elana K. Arnold; The Blue House by Phoebe Wahl

From A to Zany titles - My Two Dads and Me by Michael Joosten; The Smeds and the Smoos by Julia Donaldson; Every Little Letter by Deborah Underwood

“Immigrants–they get the job done.” - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

“Anybody want a peanut?” - As You Wish by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden

“…Love changes and changes. Then it changes again…” - Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Did I mention the NOT cows???? - Black Sand Beach V01: Are You Afraid of the Light? by Richard Fairgray

Dresden Returns! - Peace Talks by Jim Butcher; Battle Ground by Jim Butcher

Just delightful - Stardust by Neil Gaiman

It’s like bad pizza… - The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks

“It’s just one future slipping away and being replaced by another.” - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

This one was mysterious and disturbing - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

He is full of roots, while she has only branches. - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Authenticity - Goodbye 2020 Hello 2021 by Selina Barker and Vicki Pavitt

Once I wore magic snow suits to play in the snow. Now I just read about the stuff. - Snow Friends by Margery Cuyler; Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper

Reports had indicated that a good part of the river was navigable up to the foot of the cordillera. - The Snow of the Admiral by Alvaro Mutis; Ilona Comes with the Rain by Alvaro Mutis

A fun hate-to-love romance - Headliners by Lucy Parker

The setting is otherworldly but the trauma is not - Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

I am a passenger. I am moving through your dreams, all of your dreams. And you never knew - The Sandman (Audio Production) by Neil Gaiman

“Such a Device Could Not Exist.” - Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer by Jo Marchant

Life Through Poetry - Ain’t Never Not Been Black by Javon Johnson

Dream a little dream of me - The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

Poirot Knows - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Sexy, Feminist, and Inclusive Romance - Hot Rabbi by Aviva Blakeman

Second verse same as the first? - The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

International Woman of Mystery - The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian

Lady Charlotte Holmes investigates closer to home - Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas

I was locking my locker key IN my locker…. she was changing the world! - All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel

I can’t come up with a clever title for this so just read it okay? - Ella’s Night Lights by Lucy Fleming

She Used to Meet Me on the (Lower) East Side - The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe; Lush Life by Richard Price

Escape From the Present with… THE FUTURE! - Ark by Veronica Roth; Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin; The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay; Randomize by Andy Weir; You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towlesl; Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

Just look at this beautiful cover. And the book inside is just as lovely. - Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

A Mother-Daughter Thing - The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis

Gloriously weird - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Alphabet is not just for learning to read - R Is for Rebel by J. Anderson Coats

You won’t have a ghost of a chance - Séance Tea Party by Reimena Yee

Don’t Stop Me Now (I Want) Somebody To Love, and you’re it Freddie - Freddie & Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody by Mike Dawson

It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day. - Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

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