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4 Star Reviews

A sweet & salty little f/f romance novella. - A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian

A Helpful Guide to Completing NaNoWriMo - No Plot? No Problem! Revised and Expanded Edition: A Low-stress, High-velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty

Aaah, l’amore!! - Caveboy Crush by Beth Ferry

I’m a Little Better at Madden Now - Football For Dummies, 6th Edition by Howie Long

Cannonball With a Delightful Memoir - Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

“Your heart is beating, isn’t it? You’re not in chains, are you?” - Felicity by Mary Oliver

This one has that Stephen King magic. - The Institute by Stephen King

Sister (and brother) Act - Lose the Blanket, Linus! Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

There exists, however, a general impression that Civil War soldiers had little or no idea of what they were fighting for. - What They Fought For 1861-1865 by James M McPherson

Do not be alarmed, but the second chapter of this book is missing! - Chapter Two is Missing by Josh Lieb

One final trip to Black’s Faerie realm - The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

Surrender - Surrender by Amanda Quick

Here’s Looking at You - Here's Looking at You by Mhairi McFarlane

It’s piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up - Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

Hustlers, Baby - Uptown Thief by Aya de León

There would be no one but she who could not remember that. - A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Madox Ford

If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! - Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself. - The Mist by Stephen King

It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. - Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

You were moving so fast it was unimportant to finish and clear everything. - Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

Death is the only thing keeping us in line. - The Postmortal by Drew Magary

You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other. - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

If HAL was good and tells its own story - All Systems Red THe Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Capturing the American spirit - Hi, I’m Norman: The Story of American Illustrator Norman Rockwell by Robert Burleigh

Damn. - You by Caroline Kepnes

You also learn his best man has great hair…. - Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan

Continually Thankful My Own Mother Doesn’t Use Her Knowledge of Romance Novel Tropes Against Her Children - A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau; A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas by Jackie Lau

Quirky Heroines in Unlikely Situations - The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves ; On the Island (On the Island #1) by Tracey Garvis Graves ; The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

Who’s That Girl - Who's That Girl by Mhairi McFarlane

We Aren’t As Correct As We Think We Are - The Perils of Perception: Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything by Bobby Duffy

Horror Against a Jim Crow Backdrop - Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

Well, that was NOT the book I was expecting to read - The Power by Naomi Alderman

Smuggler Meets Shipping Heiress - Brazen and the Beast by Sarah McLean

Humanity Sucks But the Spiders Make the Story - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Wounds Laid Bare - Drifting House by Krys Lee

“He was only twelve, and understood that his experience of the world was limited, but one thing he was quite sure of: when someone said trust me, they were usually lying through their teeth.” - The Institute by Stephen King

“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.” - Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher; White Night by Jim Butcher

A timely review for a book about Halloween. - Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks

My Favorite Version of Beauty and the Beast Yet … - As Old as Time by Liz Braswell

An interesting twist on the “there’s only one bed” trope - The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

Seriously, is no one else bothered about there being zero wagers in this book? - The Wallflower Wager (Girl Meets Duke, #3) by Tessa Dare

“But if you think there’s a man anywhere who can make me do anything I don’t want to do, you haven’t been paying attention.” - Heaven's Queen (Paradox, #3) by Rachel Bach

Pretty great second book, once I got into it. - Honor's Knight (Paradox, #2) by Rachel Bach

“We are all of us only human.” - Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2) by Ann Leckie

Anthony Horowitz becomes a character in his own mystery novel. - The Word is Murder (Hawthorne, #1) by Anthony Horowitz

Thanks to all the Cannonballers who reviewed this. I picked it up way sooner because of that than I would have otherwise. - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

“She looked in the mirror and gasped. Melissa gasped back at her. For a long time, she stood there, just blinking. George smiled, and Melissa smiled too.” - George by Alex Gino

Hard Livin’ - No Human Involved by Barbara Seranella

The Twenty-Six Year Old Virgin - Losing It by Emma Rathbone

The Holiday, but with less romance and more self-empowerment - Swapping Lives by Jane Green

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