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4 Star Reviews

Human Fallibility, Fathers and Sons, Love and Medieval Politics - Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman

A Portrait with Surprising Depths - Still Life by Louise Penny

Burn it! Burn it. This is where the poems are - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Permanently Marked by the Past - Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

Julián Is a Mermaid - Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

I don’t remember the first time I heard a racist joke at a punk rock show. Rather, I don’t remember the first time I was grabbed into a sweaty half-hug by one of the laughing white members of my Midwest punk scene and told don’t worry about it. We don’t think of you that way. - They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Life, school, hockey and baking pies - Check, Please!: Book #1 Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu

Good, Clean Comic Fun! - Super Sons Vol. 1: When I Grow Up by Peter J. Tomasi, Jorge Jimenez

Breaking the first rule of Fight Club - Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin (Author), Nina Vakueva (Illustrator)

You kill them with your success - The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Black women and feminism - Ain't I a Woman by Bell Hooks

“Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.” - A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions by Katharine Hayhoe, Andrew Farley

“Look me in the face, hold my gaze. And call me by your name.” - Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

YA Historical Fiction with a Lot to Dissect - Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

“Everything feels yes.” - Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

A fantastical coming of age tale in space - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Might frustrate you, but only temporarily - The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

A showgirl’s life - All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J. Church

Mommy’s Khimar is Lovely - Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Summertiiiiiiiime and the living is drearyyyyyy (for women) - Summer by Edith Wharton

Nutcrackers are like Sherlock, snowy owls are like Bedouin herders, and fairy wrens have more sense than most world leaders - The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal about Being Human by Noah Strycker

“There are one or two things that I do not fancy the looks of in this torture-chamber.” - Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell

A man grows what he can, and tends it. - Pet Semetary by Stephen King

“I want to be the hero in my story.” - Rebound by Kwame Alexander

Not the direction I expected the sequel to take but fantastic regardless - The Reluctant Queen: Book Two of the Queens of Renthia by Sarah Beth Durst

Anyone who says you can lose their love isn’t really family, no matter what blood says. - Tricks for Free by Seanan McGuire

There’s just always so much to digest - Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey

Two Good Coming Out YA Novels - Ask the Passengers and It's Not Like It's a Secret by A.S. King and Misa Sugiura

There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. - The Dispossessed by Ursula K Leguin

“Sometimes there just aren’t enough words to fill the crack in your heart.” - Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway

The Cannonballist - the Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

“Let’s be clear, a lot of people met because of cocaine.” - Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman

One of the women greeted me. I love you, she said. She didn’t Know me, but I believed her - Wade in the Water by Tracy K Smith

There is nothing more. And yet… - In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki

Mostly Satisfying Resolution - Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

“Open the door. Show us your face. Walk into the light.” - I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara

I Learned in School That Blood Has a Memory - The Wild Inside by Jamey Bradbury

“I teach you to be warriors in the garden so you will never be gardeners of war” - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

I feel a little lost here, but I still like it - World of Wakanda: Issues 1-6 by Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yona Harvey

Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they’d be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they’re clumsy and maladjusted. - The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza

Though I Look Right at Home I Still Feel Like an Exile - How To Stop Time by Matt Haig

Something Like Jojo Moyes - Something Like Happy by Eva Woods

Teen Angst Kills - One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

A non-binary Regency romance. - Unmasked by the Marquess (Regency Imposters, #1) by Cat Sebastian

This review is completely fine - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

A truly lovely story of family that overwhelms the central romance - Someone to Wed by Mary Balogh

China Rich Girlfriend - Mixing It Up A Little by Kevin Kwan

Your Pinky Swear Sits on a Throne Of Lies - Head On: A Novel Of the Near Future by John Scalzi

Apply directly to the forehead - Head On by John Scalzi

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