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4 Star Reviews

Falling in Love with Love, Simon - Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

A Good Road Trip Love Story - The Escape (The Survivors' Club #3) by Mary Balogh

Still relevant - The Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild and Anne Machung

Well worth the re-read - World's End (Age of Misrule, Book 1) by Mark Chadbourn

It’s complicated; romance, family, politics, whether one is dead or not, all of it is complicated - The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

“One never knows when one is behaving like a creep; probably even that astronaut lady who drove for two days to beat up her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend didn’t think twice when she bought those adult diapers. It just felt right.” - Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs by Dave Holmes

Luvvie, I feel you so hard - I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi

You really should read this one! - Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

“You can’t just go around hurting and killing people like that.” “Why not?” asks Tupra. - Your Face Tomorrow vol 2 and vol 3 by Javier Marias

Bee biology re-imagined through the language of human dystopia - The Bees by Laline Paull

Ghost Boys through history - Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

A Slow-building Gut Punching Novel - Brewster by Mark Slouka

How To Start Unpacking The Baggage We Carry In Life - Traveling Light by Max Lucado

What Happens When You Lose Grasp of Reality - Arena by Holly Jennings

Everything is Just So…Overheated - Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman

In Which I Think the Movie is Better Than the Book - Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

The Audiobook is Amazing! - One More Thing by B.J. Novak

What Happens When We Finally Colonize Mars - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

A Great Selection of Lewis’ Writings - Preparing for Easter by C. S. Lewis

Don’t try to make me grow up before my time - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

How to Create Lasting Personal and Social Transformation - Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change by Adam Kahane

This book is a lot. #CBRBingo - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

A new chapter for a brilliant piece of crime journalism - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

Just as good as the first, maybe better? - The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2) by John Scalzi

#CBR10Bingo: Two Heads Are Better Than One – introducing my husband (Blackout AND double Cannonball!) - Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O'Shea

Animals make us human - Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters - My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite

“You are the one fixed point in a changing age.” - His Last Bow: Some Later Reminisces of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #8) by Arthur Conan Doyle

“To Yelena, our newest food taster. May you last longer than your predecessor.” - Poison Study (Study, #1) by Maria V. Snyder

No. - Saga, Vol. 9 (Saga, #9) by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

All of this has happened before. - So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica by Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.” - The Truth (Discworld, #25) by Terry Pratchett

I don’t want to go into those Dark Places either - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

I’m not crying, you’re crying. - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Murderbot is the depressed and anxious android you’ve always needed. (CBR10 Bingo 10 & 11) - All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Somehow this series still works. - A Letter of Mary (Mary Russell, #3) by Laurie R. King

A nice little Dresden Files snack. - Brief Cases (The Dresden Files, #15.1) by Jim Butcher

“The thing is, I suppose that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.” - The Witch Elm by Tana French

Swashbuckling ladies who are scientists go on an adventure. - The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2) by Mackenzi Lee

Eleanor and Park Redux #CBRBingo - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Eating in the light of the moon - Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling by Anita Johnston

It’s right there in the title - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Transformers meet Voltron - Mech Cadet Yu by Greg Pak, Takeshi Miyazawa and Triona Farrell

Decline and Fall of the Targaryen Empire - Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin

I Made a Mistake Reading This Right Under the Cold Vent in my Room, I Tell You That - The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

Paris is Burning - The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Carassa

I was drugged up when I wrote this. - Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4) by Robert Galbraith

You can change your mind, that’s a what a mind is for. - At Last (Patrick Melrose, #5) by Edward St. Aubyn

Painfully True - Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola

I’m still hoping he hears that cell door slamming behind him, and I’m hoping she somehow does too… - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

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