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4 Star Reviews

Give Me All the Dystopian Mean Girls Drama - The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

When they write my obituary. - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

A Quick Read with Transformative Power - Love Wins by Rob Bell

Say Hello to Your Friends. Say Hello to the Peeeople Who Caaaare. - Kristy's Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club #1) by Ann M. Martin

Sleep well, dear. - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

She came to him toward morning. - The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

After two miles of walking, he came to a town. - The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

When I first saw him he was a round thing like a clothes basket covered with sacking. - The Goshawk by TH White

On the Precipice - Hope to Die by Lawrence Block

My mother drowned on the night of May 23rd, my birthday, in the sea at a place called Spaccavento, a few miles from Minturno. - Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante; The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

“Being with you is as good as being alone.” - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

this woman’s work - If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley

“The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you.” - Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Jojo Moyes Does it Again - One Plus One by Jojo Moyes

A Bit of Perspective - The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

The British Countryside Mystery - A Place of Execution by Val McDermid

“I do not like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln - How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age by Dale Carnegie & Associates

Appreciate and Appreciate More - Super Attractor by Gabrielle Bernstein

A Creepy Book About Supernatural Kids? Sign Me Up! - The Institute by Stephen King

Many of you read this years ago and I am only now catching up. - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

I Ain’t No Senator’s Son - Ah, Treachery! by Ross Thomas

There but for the grace of godtopus go any of us - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

Regular school is out but Hogwarts is in - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne

A European Tragedy - Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis

Cannonballing with Emily St. John Mandel. - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Don’t read comics on Apple Books: A PSA. - The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman

We have every reason to believe this case is moving swiftly toward a successful conclusion. - The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson

When I got home from the supermarket, my husband was watching a boxing match on TV. - The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya

Michelle wasn’t sure when everyone start hanging out at the Albion. - Black Wave by Michelle Tea

If you like the show Knightfall you’ll like this book. - Knightfall - The Infinite Deep by David B Coe

Good Intentions - Harleen by Stjepan Sejic

Enemy coworkers fall in love, on TV. - Headliners (London Celebrities, #5) by Lucy Parker

“Morituri Nolumus Mori … Er, roughly speaking, it means, ‘We who are about to die don’t want to.’” - The Last Hero (Discworld, #27) by Terry Pratchett

Lovely YA book about coming out as nonbinary. - I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

“I was more afraid of the truth than the lie. The truth would change the circumstances of my life. The lie was static. The lie was peaceful. I was happy with the lie.” - Long Bright River by Liz Moore

Anchors Away - Home Is The Sailor by Day Keene

Crown of Mutation - Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Night Owls - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

If You Want to Binge The Witcher but Have Children Around, Maybe Pick Up the Book - The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

Is it the book or me? - Atomic Habits by James Clear

“I look for something else I could do for work but feel unqualified for everything interesting and repulsed by everything else.” - The New Me by Halle Butler

Because we were very poor and could not buy another bed, I used to sleep on a pallet made of old coats and comforters in same room with my mother and father. - Boston Adventure by Jean Stafford

They sat stiffly on his antique Eames chairs, two people who didn’t want to be here, or one person who didn’t want to and one who resented the other’s reluctance. - Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress; Beggars in Spain (Novel) by Nancy Kress

“Missing you is profoundly inconvenient, I’ll have you know. I have things to do and places to be, and all the while I’ll feel like I’ve mislaid a piece of my soul and I won’t get it back until I see you again. That can’t be normal.” - The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian

Using Lovecraft Against Himself - The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

The boy wakes me up: Do you know where mosquitos come from, Mama? - Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli

Light reading for anxious times - Josie by Lynda Page

Doing something bad ends up going well - Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

“We all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at once the best known and least known of figures.” - Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

So close to five stars. - The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman

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