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4 Star Reviews

WTF Indeed - The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker

I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame. - Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin

A beautiful, melancholy story from my Book Exchange buddy - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Under Construction - I Know What I’m Doing by Jen Kirkman

“If you can’t win the game, you have to cheat.” - The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Lee, Mackenzi

What does the world need to become perfect? - The Quest for Christa T by Christa Wolf

Rennie can see what she is now: she’s an object of negotiation. - Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood

the last of God’s children in a godless world - New Jerusalem by Paul Ham

This is all very annoying, you know; nothing disorganizes an army so much as a war. - The Generals' Tea Party by Boris Vian

What also pleased him was the stone of this countryside - The Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

Perhaps You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks - The Complete Soccer Goalkeeper: Techniques & Tactics for Stopping Every Shot by Tim Mulqueen

We Need Ross Thomas For These Times - Out on the Rim by Ross Thomas

Perhaps nothing is certain in this world, but at least we can believe in something. - Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami; Elevation by Stephen King

In Rural Idaho, No One Can Hear You Scream - Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Life is Way Too Short to Spend Another Day at War With Yourself - 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad

“Alexa looked down into her coffee again, gazing into the dark brown liquid like it was Dumbledore’s Pensieve” - The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

Lyndsay Faye is the best. - The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Lyndsay Faye

We Don’t Ever Leave the Old World Behind. We Just Create a New One. - Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

Things That Go Bump in the Night (in German) - You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlman

Not just a mystery, but an educational mystery - The Ghost Wore Gray by Bruce Coville

A promising start for a new author - The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

Dare to be different and true to yourself - The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

“We’re meant to go. We’re not meant to stay forever.” - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Don’t let this one fly right by you. - Don't Be Afraid, Little Pip by Karma Wilson

Magically Disturbed - Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman

The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died. - The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

Triumphant may be an understatement - The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom

I’m Trying To – Let’s See If This Helps - Calm the F**k Down by Sarah Knight

He looked like heroism and hedonism’s beautiful bastard. - Tikka Chance on Me by Suleikha Snyder

Muskets and magic, and females in disguise, oh my! - The Thousand Names by Django Wexler

Toxic Family Secrets - August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

I have now conquered the complete Sherlock Holmes. - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9) by Arthur Conan Doyle

This series is just so atmospheric. - The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2) by Katherine Arden

I liked this better than her first book. - The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

When you’re punished, you get bumped to the late show - by

Spaceship pilot/dragon rider. - Skyward (Skyward, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

Humans out for witch blood - A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

A supernatural murder mystery - Iron & Velvet (Kate Kane Paranormal Investigator #1) by Alexis Hall

Get more Nell Scovells! - Just the Funny Parts by Nell scovell

Think if fantasy world Romeo and Juliet had better or absent parents - City of Lies by Sam Hawke

“Life is more complicated than that, there are endless shades of gray that comprise a human being.” - Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown

“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.” - Circe by Madeline Miller

“We eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.” - Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi

We had no image of our own future - The Feminist Mystique by Betty Friedan

Love: a perpetual state of semideranged partiality - For Real by Alexis Hall

This time I also say Yes - Say Yes to the Marquess by Tessa Dare

More Gideon and Sirius - Gideon's Rescue (A Gideon and Sirius Novel Book 4) by Alan Russell

Turning Silver Into Gold - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Poetic feels - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

An Alluring Series - Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett

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