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4 Star Reviews

In the Future, Humans Are Still A-Holes - Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

The Aurora Flu - Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King, Owen King

No Explanatory Commas (and That’s A Good Thing) - The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Everything in Australia wants to kill me, but I’m dying to visit anyway - In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

Excellent use of research to enhance a story - The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness by Jennifer Latson

Pick Your Poison! - Pick Your Poison - A Short Story Anthology by Emma Nelson and Hannah Smith, Editors

What do you do when books have the exact same plot? - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

I’m a leaf on the wind! - Leaves on the wind by Zack Whedon and Georges Jeanty

Why do we write? - Devotion by Patti Smith

“This is true love. You think this happens every day?” - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes, Joe Layden, Rob Reiner

Sideshow Babies - Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine by Claire Prentice

Spoiler Alerts Don’t Always Emotionally Prepare You - Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words by Michael Ausiello

“Post- truth is Pre- Fascism” - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

Just Made That Way - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Finishing my The Hollows re-read - Black Magic Sanction, Pale Demon, Ever After, The Undead Pool and The Witch with No Name by Kim Harrison

Dreamy Murder on the Orient Express - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Amnesia again, but handled so much better! - A Lady's Code of Misconduct by Meredith Duran

Featuring a Pet Lamb Named Dinner - A Night to Surrender (Spindle Cove #1) by Tessa Dare

An Ideal Set in Motion is a Dangerous Thing - Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Rose Lerner, Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole

Big Issues Beautifully Packaged - Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

Dildo cannons and silicone butts - What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror by David Wong

KORRA IS BACK AND I AM ALL CAPS EXCITED ABOUT IT. - The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part One (Turf Wars, #1) by Michael Dante DiMartino & Irene Koh

I want to assign my students some of these, but they might be toooooo murdery. - The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann

How to Fight Loneliness - Digging to America by Anne Tyler

Another breezy contemporary romance from the south of France - A Kiss in Lavender by Laura Florand

The Underground Girls of Kabul - The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg

Tongue in Cheek Medical Info for Your Needs - If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body by James Hamblin

A Price More Than Apple Cakes - Thorn by Intisar Khanani

Men explain things to me. . . - Men explain things to me and other essays by Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes really like Murakami and sometimes stop reading before I get too far. - Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

My only love sprung from my only hate - Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai

You can’t choose your parents… - The Brightest Fell, Of Things Unknown by Seanan McGuire

“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness.” - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It started with death at the dinner party - Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn

“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.” - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

More Gorgeous Prose - The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

Dreamland - Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Crisis by Sam Quinones

If you can handle the multiple animals in peril, it’s a good read - Killer Weekend (Walt Fleming #1) by Ridley Pearson

Cause we’re going to the chapel and we’re gonna get married… - The Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts

Where you lead, I will follow - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

The Birchbark House - The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich

More more more - A View of the Harbour; Innocents and Others; Enemy Women by Elizabeth Taylor; Dana Spiotta; Paulette Jiles

Too Dangerous For Adults - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Is a Western fantasy set in a Middle Eastern environment an Eastern? - Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

It’s Grim Up North… - Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son by Gordon Burn

Man Falls and Wildness Takes Over Again - Sweet Tooth, Book #1 by Jeff Lemire

Humans Are Monsters - The Power by Naomi Alderman

Pearls of wisdom - Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner

Bon Appétit! - The Opposite of You by Rachel Higginson

Are people really like this? Really? In real life? - The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

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