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4 Star Reviews

Re-reading a classic: 1984 in 2020 - 1984 by George Orwell

There Are a Million Stories in the Naked City of Baltimore - Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

Grandparenting is the balancing act of having done it all before but having never really done it - Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting by Anna Quindlen

Shades of Gray - Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green

“Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein” - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Let’s Start of the Year With a Little Non-Fiction - A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation by Tim Hannigan

Make Samosa, Do Good in the World - The Kitchen without Borders: Recipes and Stories from Refugee and Immigrant Chefs by The Eat Off Beat Chefs, Siobhan Wallace, Penny De Los Santos

I kind of want to read a book about this book - In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri

Sis Boom Bah - Dare Me by Megan Abbott

“It was in my hair, Severian, ” Dorcas said. - Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe

Toward the end of November, during a warm spell, at around nine o’clock in the morning, a train of the Petersburg-Warsaw line was approaching Petersburg at full steam. - The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Things Are Dark on the Dark Side - Rule of Two (Star Wars: Darth Bane, Book 2) by Drew Karpyshyn

It’s a mystery to me but not the intended one - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Long Slog Continues Through Book Four - Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

Map porn - The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching

They Might Just Make It After All - The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

Full Throttle – Another good short story collection from the Kings - Full Throttle by Joe Hill

We’ll Never be Perfect, But We Can Try to be Better - One Last Chance by Therese Beharrie

“There is nothing lonelier than fear.” - The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

Doesn’t Totally Hold Up, But Still Great - Brain Droppings by George Carlin

Darren, Texas Ranger - Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

… and Others Don’t – A Cautionary Tale - Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins

Home Videos - A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block

Probably a must-read for any humans who have sex (and some who don’t! and just like learning!) - Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

Don is back for another adventure, this time in parenting - The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion

He Said Butt! - Where is My Butt? by Donald Budge

They crested out on the bluff in the late afternoon sun with their shadows long on the sawgrass and burnt sedge… - Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

In The Spider’s Web - Wild Town by Jim Thompson

Morris is suffering from that affliction known as teetolalism. - Mr. Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo

Oddly comforting book - A Hug from Heaven by Anna Whiston-Donaldson

Greta showed Ed the letter as soon as he came in the door. - A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith

“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.” - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

“because for him to do nothing was to undermine his own dignity.” - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

As Unorthodox As It Was, This Was Her Version Of Dropping Her Mask - Hearts on Hold by Charish Reid

Were I to Pull Every Line that Made Me Gasp I Would be Quoting the Book in its Entirety - The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt

Grandma Mazur is the star of Twisted Twenty-Six and I wouldn’t have it any other way - Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich

What Lies Beneath? - The Deep: A Novel of Terror Beneath the Sea by Michaelbrent Collings

“In order to keep him alive, we have had to forget his victims.” - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed By Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

Insurance cover for field trips must be hard to get… - Star Trek: Starfleet Academy by Mike Johnson & Ryan Parrott

“Beneath the modern political rhetoric and academic theories of history, I had an ancient hope that was indistinguishable from Spiritualism. If my edit took, maybe the good I’d done would outweigh the evil.” - The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

Monster, or just another kid? - Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri

The man in dark-blue slacks and forest-green sportshirt waited impatiently in the line. - The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith

The corporal cadet stepped out of the guard hut and squinted out over the field. - QBVII by Leon Uris

“This is a story of light and dark…” - Moth by Isabel Thomas

Wave After Wave, Slowly Drifting… - The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow

All Y’all’s Rave Reviews Finally Got Me - Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape.” - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Murder Most Fun - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Really made me crave some butter chicken - Tikka Chance on Me by Suleikha Snyder

Delightful Banter in Mid-Coastal Maine - Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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