Fierce heroine, creative aliens, and space adventure with bonus review from Ysakitty! - Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
“And so I decided to make a remix of flambé shrimp a la Emoni, because what better way to take a leap of faith than to set something on fire and trust it will not only come out right, but that it will be completely delicious?” - With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
“There is no consent under capitalism.” - Docile by K.M. Szpara
I am already at an age and additionally in a state where I must always wash my feet thoroughly before bed, in the event of having to be removed by an ambulance in the Night. - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of the Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. - Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Free Will - Even The Wicked by Lawrence Block
…friendship is hard to define. - Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane
What a lovely creature you are. - The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
“That’s an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it.” - Women & Power by Mary Beard
Even the Mysterious Figures that We Aren’t Quite Sure are there Have Their Histories to Tell - The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Mrs. Van Rydock moved a little back from the mirror and sighed. - They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie; The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
There’s no theme with these! - The Indifferent Stars Aboe by Daniel James Brown; Followers by Megan Angelo; Timeline by Micahel Crichton
“A fiery, foul-mouthed preacher who offered up profane salvation.” - Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
I get by with a little help from books like this - With a Little Help from My Friends by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
We are Family - Just Like a Mama by Alice Faye Duncan
Freedom, what does it mean? - On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
A Day at the Movies - Double Feature by Donald E. Westlake
The Puzzl-iest of Puzzles - The 7.5 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Steampunk, historical fiction, mystery? - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Better than the Cupid TV Show - Beaus and Arrows by Rashida T. Williams
November 7th — Plant the indoor bulbs. - Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield
Angel In Disguise - The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich
Why not distract yourself from the workings of the world with the workings of your own insides? - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
The boy who lived. - The History of Magic by JK Rowling; Tales of the Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling
“Agnes first, Hengist second, Leah third!” said Lavinina Middleton, as her sisters and brother contested the access to the cloakroom in the hall. - The Mighty and their Fall by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Younger generations give me hope. - Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen
Revisiting the End of the World - Beyond Surrender by Kit Rocha
“All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down” - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
This One’s For the Girls - Two Girls Down by Louise Luna
A new kind of bot in the Murderbot world - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Keep an Eye on Those Dragons - The Secret Chapter by Genvieve Cogman
The Broken Girls is a creepy page-turner - The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
“I don’t want to talk about dukes. Bollocks on every last one of them.” - A Delicate Deception (Regency Imposters, #3) by Cat Sebastian
Another delightful Lau novella - A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day by Jackie Lau
“Because, my girl you are sacred, valuable, indispensable, and irreplaceable” - #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale (editors)
Guns, Guns, Guns - The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins
A Georgie Badiel inspired picture book - The Water Princess. by Susan Verde
Who Else Has a Sibling Dynamic Where You Are Constantly Annoyed Over Petty Things But Would Help Them Hide a Body in an Instant? - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Why is the crow their emblem? Because crows remember. - Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.” - Blindness by José Saramago
Deja Vu - In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Stop Scrolling! - Followers by Megan Angelo
This review ended up way more angry than I thought it would. - King of Scars (Nikolai Duology, #1) by Leigh Bardugo
The Man: Mayor Pete BEFORE he was Mayor - Mayor Pete: The Story of Pete Buttigieg by Rob Sanders
*Almost* Twenty years later and still a Potter head! - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K.Rowling
Reissues of dePaola - The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Tomie dePaola; Marianna May and Nursey by Tomie dePaola
I’m a Bad Guy - Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
Thomas Wazhashk removed his thermos from his armpit and set it on the steel desk alongside his scuffed briefcase. - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
This is the chronicle of a six-month trip that my wife and I made to Bafut, a mountain grassland kingdom in the British Cameroons in West Africa. - A Zoo in my Luggage by Gerald Durrell
May 7th — I love my garden. - Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim