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4 Star Reviews

Au Revoir les Enfants - Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

How I Learned to Accept my Hangover - A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present by Mark Forsyth

Kind of Jealous I Didn’t Apply for that Rhodes Scholarship - My Oxford Year by Julia Wheelan

Kick butts, eat nuts. - The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North & Erica Henderson

“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic” — Alex Haley - The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

An insider’s look at video game development - Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games by Walt Williams

The academic research paper of fiction - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

What a weird little book - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Sharpe I can make you a captain, but I cannot keep you a captain. - Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell

Give me a dollar or I’ll spit on you. - There's A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar

Apparently The Abyss isn’t a big deal. - Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI by Robert K. Ressler

Trot right over and find this foxy number! - Little Fox in the Snow by Jonathan London

A political system that might just make more sense then North America’s - Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

Quick Charming Read to Start the Year - Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon

A Joyous Reintroduction to My True Love - Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting. - Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Dead men don’t bite - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Under the Bridge - The Underbelly by Gary Phillips

YA + Alternative History + Zombies!! - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

an exercise in lying to liars - Transcription by Kate Atkinson

The least toxically masculine thing you will ever read. - Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1 by Ngozi Ukazu

Falling in Love with the Spirit in the Sword - Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

She left worst for last. - Oreo by Fran Ross

12th Century Boss Lady - The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick

“She did not like being a public person. She was happiest in her garden, at her country home.” - Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon

Here There Be Giant Catfish Monsters - A World Below by Wesley King

“It’s a cruel, cruel world. And the people are the worst part.” - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Dead good - Dead Funny by Robin Ince, Johnny Mains

Muderbot and I Share So Much - Artificial Condition by Martha Wells; Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells; Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

Chrono-Displaced Persons - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

I liked this?????? - A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) by Sarah J. Maas

It Happened Here - Collusion by Luke Harding

I couldn’t finish it - I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara

British crime novels with double-meaning in the titles are becoming my jam - The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

I Tikka a Chance - Tikka Chance on Me by Suleikha Snyder

A Horrifying Look at Apartheid from the Inside - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

So Many Footnotes - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard

Touchdown - The Seventh by Richard Stark

Not a Single Dick-pun in this review. Not. A. Single. One. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

“I’m sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don’t know.” - Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6) by Louise Penny

An illuminating book about the grossness of human behavior. - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Who’d a thunk a book with a train on the cover and set in the 30’s could actually be fun? - On the Blue Comet by Rosemary Wells

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes - Pájaros en la boca y otros cuentos (Mouthful of Birds: Stories) by Samanta Schweblin

Now We’ve Got Vlad Blood - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

“Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.” - Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

Crime solving in Echo Park - Echo Park by Michael Connelly

…it never did any harm to walk through a new door now and then, and see where you end up. - Bellewhether by Susanna Kearsley

I am not smart enough for this book - Feel Free by Zadie Smith

Both Complex and Accurate - Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne

“We’re more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.” - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

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