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4 Star Reviews

Destiny! Destiny! No escaping it for me! - The Sword of Destiny: Tales of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski

I’m Not a Fan of Short Stories; This Collection Changed My Mind - Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Hawkeye Learns to Set His Pride Aside - Hawkeye, Vol. 6: Hawkeyes by Jeff Lemire

Great Guide to the Most Magically Stress-inducing Theme Park - The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2020 by Bob Sehlinger, Len Testa

The human body is a disgusting miracle - Navel Gazing by Michael Ian Black

Are We Human or Rabbit? - Watership Down by Richard Adams

As I write these lines it’s early spring in the Northeast, and Americans of every age and station are getting back into their cold, muddy, salt-befouled automobiles. - Hotels of North America by Rick Moody

Hold me closer Tiny Dancer - Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

True and terrifying - Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert

A Portrait of Long-Lasting Wit - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Henry, black and stooped, unlocked the door with a key on a large metal ring. - The Hustler by Walter Tevis

Here is this baby, crying in my, and don’t he just know when to stop? - Martin and John by Dale Peck

In which side characters are the real ones - The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life, Vol. 2 (light novel) by Usata Nonhora

Common High School Tropes But Stays Classy about Anxiety - Komi Can't Communicate, vols. 1-2 by Tomohito Oda

Moving Beyond Black and White: An Immigrant’s Perspective on Race in the United States - Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America by Sharmila Sen

Paint me a small railroad station then, ten minutes before dark. - Bullet Park by John Cheever

The first sunny day of spring evaporated the dampness that had accumulated in the soil through the winter months, and warmed the bones of the old people who now could stroll the gentle orthopedic paths of the garden. - Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

A New Start - The Slasher by Michael Collins

A Valentine’s Delight - A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day (Holidays with the Wongs #4) by Jackie Lau

The Hate U Give - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

“Ultimately, the reason Harvey Weinstein followed the route he did is because he was allowed to, and that’s our fault. As a culture that’s our fault.” - Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

If I Had a Dollar for Every Dead Guy I Found In My Tub… - Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers

Sapphire Blue is like junk food – you’ll enjoy it but it won’t stick with you - Sapphire Blue by Kerstin Gier

Redshirts by John Scalzi is silly, fun, and full of adventure. - Redshirts by John Scalzi

The Last Time I Lied is a slow burn that sticks with you - The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

Less thriller, more meditation - American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

A urgent rallying cry - We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom

On a clear, blueblack, starry night, in the city of Berlin, in the year 2003, two young people sat down to dinner. - The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe

A little bit of everything - The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

A world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals - The Stonekeeper (Amulet, #1) by Kazu Kibuishi

Colors in rainbows - Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy

Robo Boogey - Happiness for Humans by P.Z. Reizin

Tough Decisions - Dark Night of the Soul by Gary Reilly

Non-Binary Stars - Behind the Sun, Above the Moon by Ziggy Schutz, Paige S. Allen, Brooklyn Ray, J.S. Fields, S.R. Jones, Alex Harrow, Emmett Nahil, Sara Codair, Anna Zabo

The lose of a pet does not have to not have hope - Where Lily Isn’t by Julie Paschiks

Different colors “talk” to different pollinators - Flower Talk by Sara Levine

Never say never - Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Prudence Shen

Your Gut is a Wonderland - Gut: The Inside Story of Our Most Underated Organ by Giulia Enders

I recall reading, in The New York Review of Books, a couple of years ago, an article that jellyfish were taking over the planet. - Typewriters Bombs Jellyfish by Tom McCarthy

What happens when the last dragon on earth lives in the Bayou? - Highfire by Eoin Colfer

It’s really amazing that humanity has lasted as long as it has - The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman

A must-have for your bug-out bag - The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell

The Man, the Myth, the Legend - Hard Work, but It’s Worth It: The Life of Jimmy Carter by Bethany Hegedus

Quickest, tallest, most fearless athlete - Althea Gibson: The Story of Tennis’ Fleet-of-Foot Girl by Megan Reid

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. - Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson

Now, what could I do with the boy? Joshua asked himself. - Making of the Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon

Truth is Not Always Freeing - The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly

The country house party from Hell. - Proper English (England, #0) by K.J. Charles

“One of them says, ‘Why did they do it?’ And the other answers, ‘Because they could.’ That is the only answer there ever is.” - The Power by Naomi Alderman

She Was Like a Sexy, Rabid Raccoon. And He Was a Goner. - Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher

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