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4 Star Reviews

Enjoyable af - Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

Rich People Problems – Neat wrap-up for the trilogy - Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

The right butter. The wrong butter. The tea of allegiance. The tea of betrayal. - Milkman by Anna Burns

The Importance of Dairy - Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman

It Could Work If We Are Open To It - Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionize Our Lives by Annie Lowrey

Lions, and Soldiers, and Pies…oh my - The Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers by Sara Ackerman

“Master of puppets I’m pulling your strings” - The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley

A Fun Read for Beer Enthusiasts (aka Humanity) - The Comic Book Story of Beer: The World's Favorite Beverage from 7000 BC to Today's Craft Brewing Revolution by Jonathan Hennessey, Mike Smith

Love Story Between Two Sisters - How to Walk Away by Katherine Center

The Fall of the House of Deschain - Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead by Robin Furth

Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley

This makes me want to write essays - Everything's Trash But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson

What a wild and crazy guy - Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

Some Early Steinbeck - The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck

“Perhaps it’s just the way the light hits, but everything looks like a target to me” - Deadly Class Volume 1: Reagan Youth by Rick Remender

“Beware the woods and the dark, dank, deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep.” - Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Hogs and kisses! - Piney the Goat Nanny: A Truce Story of a Little Pig with a Big Heart by Leanne Lauricella

Watch out for pesky sisters running away and open graves to the underworld - Graveyard Shakes by Laura Terry

Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy. - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

When Chickens Come Home to Roost - A Legacy of Spies by John LeCarre

“A barbarian who cannot write a sentence of grammar and can hardly spell his own name.” (John Quincy Adams) - Andrew Jackson: The Making of America by Teri Kanefield

Who doesn’t like a sci-fi romp? - Head On by John Scalzi

NOT a user’s manual… - How to be Human by Paula Cocozza

Probably a less than 10% chance I’ll take up running after this - Running Like a Girl: Notes on Learning to Run by Alexandra Heminsley

Everyone’s a little bit garbage sometimes. - Grist Mill Road by Christopher Yates

She had no idea what life was, or death. - Katalin Street by Magda Szabo

But What Goes on With Everyone Else While the Chosen Ones Deal With all the Villain Stuff? - The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Damn, she’s good - The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North

Thank You For Both The Best and Worst Date I’ve Ever Been On. - Clean Breaks by Ruby Lang

“You’ve got to pick up every stitch” - Practical Magic for Beginners by Brandy Williams

SUPER Quick Read - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Entitled White Rich Kid Thinks He Can Do What He Wants…Or Maybe It Wasn’t Him? - All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin

One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling. - All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

Timing is everything in ‘The Cabin at the End of the World’ - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

“I’ve Been Expelled From Heaven, I Think I was In Heaven” - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Asked and answered - Ask A Manager by Alison Green

Small but Mighty - The LIttle Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by HIldegarde H. Swift, Lynd Ward (illustrator)

Another Haverston Family novel, another decapitated cover model… - Practically Wicked by Alissa Johnson

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Do you suppose Nearly a Lady refers to the fact that they’ve cut off the top of her head on the cover art? - Nearly a Lady by Alissa Johnson

Planet hopping and robots and sex, oh my! - Barbarella by Jean-Claude Forest

“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

“Success often lies not in what happens but in what you prevent from happening” - Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth

You Never Needed to Redeem Yourself - Hard Knocks by Ruby Lang

“I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity.” - Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

What we have to do now, then, Sir, is to lay your request before the daughters of educated men and to ask them to help you to prevent war - Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme - Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt

Super Powered Siblings and Family Issues Going Hand-In-Hand - Umbrella Academy 1: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá; Umbrella Academy 2: Dallas by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

I’ll be watching you… - Kentukis by Samanta Schweblin

Triplet sisters running amok in Australia - Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty

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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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