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4 Star Reviews

Angry Space Jellyfish - Binti by nnedi Okorafor

This is a book about a teenage girl planning her suicide. It’s a tough book to read so beware. - My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

The System Is So Different Here, But It’s Still Broken - The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken by Anonymous

Little Bao’s Big Adventure takes some messy turns - Boxers & Saints #01 by Gene Luen Yang

A Love Letter to the Women Forgotten After Deemed No Longer Useful, Tucked Inside a Love-Hate Letter to a Hometown - The Melting Queen by Bruce Cinnamon

A pretty good second book; I hope she has an easier time with #3! - 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

If you’re not following this gal on Twitter do so now! - Dandy by Ame Dyckman

Where Brooklyn At. - Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

We are small but mighty and that’s alrighty! - The Little Guys by Vera Brosgol

When the days call for a story about a family of mice - Brambly Hedge The Secret Staircase by Jill Barklem

Raven’s Family Tree - Squirrel’s Family Tree by Beth Ferry

Almost finished - A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

The triumphant return of the Constant Reader - The Outsider by Stephen King

“In my humble opinion, pride is a fairly common sin, because everyone thinks very highly of themselves.” - Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

“I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.” - The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

Paul Tremblay is a weird dude but I’m here for it! - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

Sometimes YA seems so grown up - After Zero by Christina Collins

A book within a book! - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

How do I become a math hero? - Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang

The Nobel committee doesn’t always get it right. - Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean

Paging Dr. Spencer Reed….. Your book isn’t so hot…but guess what? - Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belong, and Being Yourself by Matthew Gray Gubler

Betcha on land, they understand that they don’t reprimand their daughters - Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige

Read It Here First - Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

It’s because of you that I know what it feels like to be loved and accepted - The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves

Good Smolder and Original Urban Fantasy - Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

The best in the series so far. This is more like it, Ms. Kleypas - Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas

A lovely book with a beautiful cover - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

Excellent indeed - Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

KatSings has introduced me to a wonderful fantasy series - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

“The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.” - Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray

Innocence vs. experience and everything in between - Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier; Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake

Swedish Gump - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Red Harvest - The Fools In Town Are On Our Side by Ross Thomas

“I learn that I am a tiny piece of a miraculous world.” - We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

The station agent often tried a little teasing with women, especially the plain ones who seemed to appreciate it. - Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage by Alice Munro

If A Book Falls out of a Cliche Tree, Is It Still Good? - Bloody January by Alan Parks

“You are only a prisoner when you surrender.” ― Tad Williams, Shadowplay - Letters to a Prisoner by Jacques Goldstyn

Look up….all the way up….. and the stars will tell you a story about a curious boy - Look Up with Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars by Jenifer Berne

“But she turned her floodlight eyes on me and demanded a confession” - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Half the world’s work’s done by hopeless neurotics - Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

“All the things that make you different make you perfect.” - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

The results of raiding the library where I now work - Bedtime is Canceled by Cece Meng; Help! We Need a Title! by Hervé Tullet

Cheating shmeating! In the mid-19th century, Harvard really knew how to rock a scandal. - Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins

Time travel + Jane Austen Historical Fiction + Romance & Spycraft = This book. - The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn

“Maybe I still haven’t become me. I don’t know how you tell for sure when you finally have.” - The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

It Feels Good to Be Yourself: says it all - It Feels Good to Be Yourself by Theresa Thorn

“When you hear of my homegoing…don’t worry about me” - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Down the rabbit hole - White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig

IOU - I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella

Yelling at Terrible Men - Mrs. Martin’s Incomperable Adventure by Courtney Milan

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  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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