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4 Star Reviews

What is it that you seek? - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Whole Bunch of Tolstoy - Collected Shorter Fiction vol I by Leo Tolstoy

It’s no Beautiful Bastard, and that’s a good thing - Dating You / Hating You by Christina Lauren

Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful - Pretty Face by Lucy Parker

Fucking Humans - The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways - Why I Loathe Sterling Lane by Ingrid Paulson

What happens in Europe, stays in Europe? - Follow My Lead by Kate Noble

Life - Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi

Sometimes We Know the Closest to Us the Least - Mothers and Other Strangers by Gina Sorell

My heart beat hard and furious against my ribs like a fist wanting to hurt - The Sign of the Beast by Joyce Carol Oates

Class-war evil supernatural black fungus - Rivers of London Vol. 3: Black Mould by Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel

She survived a gruesome attack, but now she’s in danger again - Disturbed by Jennifer Jaynes

“I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul.” - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Another book my home state has managed to ban - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

A good sort of series ender. - A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3) by V.E. Schwab

Visiting the Land of Stories - The Wishing Spell: The Land of Stories vol. 1 by Chris Colfer

What made, and still makes, America great. - The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan

Pan-dimensional Pandemonium - American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett

When Speculative Fiction Speculates All Too Well - Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

Delightful if unsurprising - Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman

…Yep, that’s about how far my heart sank - Nine inches by Tom perotta

Searching for highwaymen in the Lake District - The Summer of You by Kate Noble

The Beauty and the Civil Service Clerk - Revealed by Kate Noble

I had expected it to be bigger, and cleaner, and more colorful. But still, it is a jewel. - How to talk to girls at parties by Neil Gaiman, Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon

Another Solid Piece of this (so far) Sprawling Epic - Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

Lots of useful advice when gestating a tiny human - Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know by Emily Oster

Lunella! No! - Secret Warriors Vol. 1: Secret Empire by Matthew Rosenberg, Javier Garron

Adventures of an Ethical Criminal - Artemis by Andy Weir

Is Poison Ivy a Good Guy or a Bad Guy? Yes. - Batman: Poison Ivy by John Francis Moore

Those Rebel Scum Never Learn - Star Wars: Darth Vader Vader Down, The Shu-Torun War by Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen

Sure, let’s add murder to flying in an airplane and make it even worse. - Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12) by Agatha Christie

I’mma Buy You a Drank - A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

Let Me Explain, This Grown Little Man is Pretty Funny - I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons by Kevin Hart

“Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.” - My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Shades of Magic - Shades of Magic Trilogy by V.E. Schwab

Still just a book in this series. - White Night (The Dresden Files, #9) by Jim Butcher

This series continues to be fun but not perfect. - A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2) by V.E. Schwab

Don’t read the summary (it’s weird), just read the book. You can’t summarize the wackiness that is this book. - My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows

Gimme the next one now, please! - Pretty Face (London Celebrities, #2) by Lucy Parker

A genetic multiple and an artificial intelligence encased in a manufactured body walk into a bar . . . - A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2) by Becky Chambers

Death on a train - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Embattled, Entrenched, or Enslaved….I dunno. - Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

Grumpy Love - Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins

Sgt. Bobbie Draper Ain’t No Fortunate Son in The Expanse (Book Two)! - Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey

I wish the alphabet had more letters. - Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton

Some Odes - Odes to Opposites by Pablo Neruda, Kenneth Krabbenhoft (translator), Ferris Cook (illustrator)

My favourite big red lizard gets his own modern Marvel comic - Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, vol 1: BFF by Amy Reeder, Brandon Montclare and Natascha Busos

Fave play is fave - Much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare

Making of a Saint (spoilers ahoy!) - Saint Camber by Katherine Kurtz

Christianity and Magic? It’s An Interesting Combination - Camber of Culdi by Katherine Kurtz

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