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4 Star Reviews

Wonderful - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

I feel like this could review two books… - H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Great read, unless you’ve heard her speak live. - SelfLess by Megan Marshman

Quirky, adorable mystery – perfect beach read. - Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. - Some Do Not by Ford Madox Ford; No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford

The summer read that melted my heart. - The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel

CBR11Bingo: Youths! - The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

CBR11Bingo: Own Voices - Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Own Voices - The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

“I can’t help but sense that desperation is right around the bend.” - Dry by Shusterman, Neal

Phileas Fogg is the most interesting man in the world - Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

What dreams are made of… - The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin

The Place That God Forgot - The Fourth Durango by Ross Thomas

‘Principles aren’t principles when you pick and choose when you’re gonna follow them.’ - The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle

I read this book three months ago. It was great! - The Austen Playbook (London Celebrities, #4) by Lucy Parker

CBR11Bingo: True Story - Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

Sand and Sea, and a Little Victorian Mystery - The Hotel Under the Sand by Kage Baker

“I couldn’t talk about my happiness without touching the uncomfortable truth that everything I have now is built on everything I lost.” - No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny

The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. - The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy. - Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Connection Pending - Day In Day Out by Terézia Mora

“I fell in love at a bad time.” Clio in Orpheus Girl - Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry

Keep A Diary - Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall by Elizabeth Drew

They Each Had to Throw Themselves Overboard - Three Part Harmony (Plot Twist) by Holley Trent

But no other option was presented to her… - Mother Country by Irina Reyn

A satisfying end to a romance series - Nobody but You by Jill Shalvis

You Know What They Say About Assumptions - Stacked (Devil's Bastards MC Book 1) by Aviva Blakeman

They Were Civilians - At Gettysburg or What A Girl Saw & Heard of the Battle by Tillie Pierce Alleman ; The Shrivers' Story: Eyewitnesses to the Battle of Gettysburg by Nancie W. Gudmestad

Ms. Marvel continues to be delightful - Ms. Marvel, vol 3: Crushed by G. Willow Wilson; Ms. Marvel, vol 4: Last Days by G. Willow Wilson

Fascinating Look at Real Life Detective Entwined Within Fictional Book - The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey

How to probably not run the English Department at Payne U - The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher

“I took a step toward her. ‘It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right,’ I said.” (CBR11Bingo) - Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Beware the UPS Guys - We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

“We know each other to the bone” - One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin

Write What You Know - My Dark Places by James Ellroy

“But the strangest of boys saved me from being swept away.” - Navigating Early by Claire Vanderpool

If You’re Lying, Callie, Do it Well. - Desire and the Deep Blue Sea by Olivia Dade

“I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. “ - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

That’s so Raven? - Teen Titans: Raven by Garcia, Kami

To the Stars! - Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

Mixed Bag of Newest Collection by Chiang, but Still Enjoyed - Exhalation by Ted Chiang

A loner, wisecracking friend, an adoring teen and a cagey young heir walk into a billionaires’ treasure hunt - Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

Uh, weren’t we having a mutiny? (redux) - The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi; The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

Definitely My Wheelhouse - Black Water Rising by Attica Locke; Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

There was no point to knocking. - The Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

Claudia Ivanovna was a silly old fool. - The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov

That’s how it goes though. The drug dealers in my neighborhood aren’t struggling. Everybody else is. - On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

We Are All Children of Blood and Bone - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

What Makes a Family - L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton

I enjoyed this book, despite the fact that I forgot all about it - War of the Spheres by BV Larson and James Millington

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