Poetry and Politics Can Be Interesting - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Every female wants to be loved by a male. - The Will to Change by bell hooks
We are no more than shadows flickering briefly on the moors. But the flickering is beautiful. - A Black Fox Running by Brian Carter
Bootylicious - Misadventures of a Curvy Girl by Sierra Simone
I have spent a good deal of 2020 in a cadaver-shaped hole. - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The hamlet stood on a gentle rise in the flat, wheat-growing north-east corner of Oxfordshire. - Lark Rise by Flora Thompson; Over to Candleford by Flora Thompson; Candleford Green by Flora Thompson
“The totality of human endeavor is nothing when set against the stars.” - The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Monsters and Heroes - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
Finding family - All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Oedipus and Electra - Cropper's Cabin by Jim Thompson
“This is how all Noirs end, with a hug.” - Cut and Run by Ben Acker, Ben Blacker
To Live and Die in LA - Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley
I thought this one was better than the first. - The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut, #2) by Mary Robinette Kowal
On Pointe - Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina by Lea Lyon
‘Cause you got to have friends, la la la la la la la la la! - Baptism of Fire: A Novel of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
Girl Interrupted - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
When I’m Wrong, I’m Wrong - Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Grann
Way darker than the classic Joshua Jackson vehicle “Skulls” - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
A teaser for mid-April - The Magical Yet by Angela DiTerlizzi
Procrastination Made Tasty - Procrastibaking: 100 Recipes for Getting Nothing Done in the Most Delicious Way Possible by Erin Gardner
Raman’s was the last house in Ellaman Street; a little door on the back wall opened, beyond a stretch of sand, to the river. - The Painter of Signs by R.K. Narayan
the summer is filled with the little “ffft, ffft” sounds of childrens’ mouths breaking the surface of swimming pools - The End of the World by Don Hertzfeldt
A space action romance that has me looking forward to book two. - Polaris Rising (The Consortium Rebellion, #1) by Jessie Mihalik
“We need no introduction, for mass annihilation - Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse: Book 1) by James S.A. Corey
Turning on a Dirt Road - The Ranger by Ace Atkins
At the turn of the twentieth-century, tobacco farmers were weak and angry. - The Cigarette by Sarah Milov
This only made me want book nine more. But still no release date. - Auberon (The Expanse, #8.5) by James S.A. Corey
The Forward Collection, ed. by Blake Crouch, was a fun success, except for that one story I didn’t like at all. - Ark by Veronica Roth; Summer Frost by Blake Crouch; Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin; The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay; You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles; Randomize by Andy Weir
A very strange little book, but I liked it? - The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
“Neutrality is usually mean.” ~Sapkowski; “If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.” ~Rush - The Time of Contempt: The WItcher Book 2 by Andrzej Sapkowski
A very straightforward biography of a noteworthy woman. - Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
“It’s not what the Masquerade does to you that you should you fear . . . It’s what the Masquerade convinces you to do to yourself.” - The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1) by Seth Dickinson
Her chatty and nervous daughter, and the quiet, thoughtful person she paid to love her. - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
A theater for my unquiet mind - The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
Bring On More Sexy Librarian Male Leads, I’m Here For It! - Hearts on Hold by Charish Reid
“Cinema helps us to remember that although we all have the right to shine, some of us must shine in the background, out of focus, and not too brightly.” - Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
The Book of the Phoenix-a great work by a new favorite author - The Book of the Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
All Manner of Things Will Be Well - Glass Houses (Inspector Gamache #13) by Louise Penny
Ghostbuster - Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
It is the best of times and worst of times, to read Station Eleven - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
“Should we wake and find it gone. Remember this our favorite town” - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Men Who Go to Therapy Are My New Kink - Love Hard (Hard Play) by Nalini Singh
“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.” - Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Throw the whole damn man away - Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
I’m not telling a lie, cherry trees and paper airplanes can make friends - Cherry Blossom and Paper Planes by Jef Aerts
Glitter wrote a book - Space opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Coming Together Had Always Been Easy - American Sweethearts by Adriana Herrera
King in Brief - Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
End of the Road - The Right Madness by James Crumley
Do You Have the Need? The Need to Read? - The Need by Helen Phillips