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4 Star Reviews

A Return to Form - A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

Between the Hate and the Love - Honour by Elif Shafak

I realised how much more he cared for me than I had supposed or he had ever shown. - Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar? - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

There is literally no place in American history that’ll be awesome for me. - Kindred by Octavia Butler

A Small Blue Whale finds a Friend or two or three…. - A Small Blue Whale by Betty Ferry

In which a favorite from my childhood stands up to an adult re-read. - The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs, Edward Gorey

How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read? - How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read? by Jane Yolen

Find Yourself in Architecture and other places! - Brick: Who Found Herself in Architecture by Joshua David Stien

Have a Night In with Night Out - Night Out by Daniel Miyares

“Kindness is an act of bravery. I think, just as hatred is an act of fear. “ - Ghostly Echoes (Jackaby #3) by William Ritter

Children Can Experience Racism at Any Age, So There Isn’t Really Such Thing as Being “Too Young” to Learn About It - Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

This book wasn’t written for me, and I feel fine - Dreadnought by April Daniels

Somebody Should Have Told The Hawk That Dragons Breath Fire - Jupiter Storm by Marti Dumas

Becky Albertalli is three for three. - Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

The Real, Unedited Story of Jane Eyre - My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

When the Eldest Son Lets Loose - Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase

Much More Of Everything Than I Was Expecting - For Real by Alexis Hall

There were so many things Rosanna could have been besides a farm wife, she thought. But it was not a source of regret—it was a source of pride - Some Luck; Early Warning; Golden Age by Jane Smiley

The Grains of Imagination - Grains of Sand by Sibylle Delacroix

Aren’t we all? - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Yes, this memoir is as good as everyone says. - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

The first half of this book is excellent, the second half a little less so. - The Outsider by Stephen King

Somehow charming instead of creepy - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

I’m only feeling *slightly* weird for fancying a cat… - Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire

Misters Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford and Me - Five Presidents: My extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford by Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin

“She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.” - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

How not to run a police department - On The Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women by Stevie Cameron

A gender-swapped Pretty Woman featuring a South Asian neuro-atypical heroine who works in STEM. Also – Cannonball! - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

I love you, Murderbot. But I would never actually tell you that, because of the intense awkwardness that would cause you - All Systems Red by Martha Wells

“Lady, did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?” - Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Same old Sedaris, now with added feels - Calypso by David Sedaris

Killer Whale fae? Yes please! - One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire

Cats, cats and more cats (Did I mention cats?) - The Wish Fairy #1 Too Many Cats! by Lisa Ann Scott

Dancing Among the Stars - Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmend

We’re a hockey town - Beartown by Fredrik Backman

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young. - Memento Mori; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

Trying to review a series without spoilers - Murder in the Mystery Suite; Murder in the Paperback Parlor; Murder in the Secret Garden; Murder in the Locked Library by Ellery Adams

I was not embarrassed to read these on the train - The Paper Magician; The Glass Magician; The Master Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

A gift that keeps on giving - The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

A story I was meaning to read anyway - I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousfzai, Patricia McCormick

Awesome, but not my favorite Drew Hayes - Forging Hephaestus by Drew Hayes

Do Not Lick This Book!!! - Do Not Lick This Book by Idan Ben-Barak

It is Christmastime! - The Broken Ornament by Tony Diterlizzi

If I told you her real name, I’d have to kill you… - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

I Am Loved - I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni

Another take on Malala - Free as a Bird by Lina Maslo

I am the narrator: a discreet and self-effacing narrator. This book is not about me. I knew, though not in most cases at all well, a number of the dramatis personae and I lived (and live) in the town where the events hereinafter recounted took place. For purposes of convenience, for instance so that my ‘characters’ may be able (very occasionally) to refer to me or address me, I shall call myself ‘N’. - The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch

Monstrously creepy and I loved it - The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days. - The Vagabond; My Mother's House; Sido by Colette

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