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Sometimes I wonder whether we hide lovers from others because it makes it easier to hide ourselves from ourselves. - Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

An Impressive But Grim Debut Fantasy Novel - The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang

A Professional Athlete Who Doesn’t Take Himself Too Seriously - How to Be a Footballer by Peter Crouch

Really, a life of crime is not the primrose path it’s cracked up to be. - Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles

Looks like I’ll be gorging myself on these - Feed by Mira Grant

An amazing job, indeed - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

For fans of Rick Riordan - Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi

How to Vampire Properly - Deadly Assessments by Drew Hayes

- 50 People Who Messed Up the World by Alexander Parker and Tim Richman

Strong Debut - There There by Tommy Orange

No adultery is bloodless - The State of Affairs by Esther Perel

Dreamcatcher meets Lord of the Flies - The Troop by Nick Cutter

Strangers in a strange land - The Parade by Dave Eggers

“There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.” - Normal Peopl by Sally Rooney

“The relationship between stitcher and yarn goes far beyond simply being prepared.” - A Stash of One's Own by Clara Parkes

I’m basically Reviewer 2 here with this so bear with me - Shadow of Night (All Souls #2) by Deborah Harkness; The Book of Life (All Souls #3) by Deborah Harness

A Worthwhile Cast Iron Cookbook - The Modern Cast Iron Cookbook: A New Generation of Easy, Fresh and Healthy Recipes by Tiffany La Forge

The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place – A Fine Mystery in a fine series - The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley

Pompey you should dress more chic. - Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith

This terrible situation only came to an end by the passage of time. - The Dark Room by R.K. Narayan

The maddening and conclusive thought. - The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

Not so jolly giant and his Jack - Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke; Mighty Jack and the Goblin King by Ben Hatke; Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

Never doubt Rainbow. - Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. - The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A Flynn

One gutsy kid - Guts by Raina Telgemeier

She is Not Bridget, She’s Queenie - Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

When Jitterbug meet Pudding - The Someone New. by Jill Twiss

Friends! Adventure! Robots! All she needs now is a catch phrase. - Legends of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke; The Return of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

I did not arrive in time to save my client’s life, but I feel myself bound in honour to discover the assassin. - Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie; The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie; Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

Luzhin awoke fully dressed, even wearing his raincoat. - The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov

Well, Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear. - The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey

Intruder alert! - This is My Room: (No Tigers Allowed) by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Bandaids don’t fix bullet holes - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

“That’s what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down” - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

He was too absurd to make me angry. - The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle; His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle

“How foolish we were, to act as gods.” - Your One & Only by Adrianne Finlay

The end is the beginning - Clade by James Bradley

Sherlock Holmes Takes on Cthulhu - Sherlock Holmes & the Shadwell Shadows by James Lovegrove

- Trial by Treason by Dave Duncan

How Do You Want to Fit In? - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Have a genuinely life-changing experience at Tranquillum House - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way - I'll Be There For You: The One About Friends by Kelsey Miller

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.” - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Romance and Reproductive Choice - Not Another Family Wedding by Jackie Lau; The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau

Why do you build me up…just to let me down? - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

I think you are a very stupid person. You look stupid. You are in a stupid business. And you came here on a stupid mission.” “I get it,” I said. “I’m stupid. It sank in after a while. - Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler; Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk. - Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Not a creature was stirring… okay TWO mice were stirring - Paper Mice by Megan Wagner Lloyd

When a book finds you - Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

Two Alphabet books to try out - A is for Awesome!: 23 Iconic Women Who Changed the World by Eva Chen ; An ABC of Flowers by Jutta Hilpuesch

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