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4 Star Reviews

Hilarious, quirky science fiction fun - Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez

“I am afraid for your priorities, son” - Jackalope Wives and other Stories by T. Kingfisher

This is book eight; time to stop wanting this series to be something it’s not. - Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8) by Alan Bradley

Circles within Circles - Redbreast by Jo Nesbo

Short and Sweet - Alien Dimensions #9 by Neil A. Hogan

Proud Little Pawns/No Quiet Way - Velvet, Vol 1: Before the Living End, Velvet, Vol 2: The Secret Lives of Dead Men by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting

Nothing. I must be solid as an oak. Except when I cry. - Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

Beautiful prose, sexy twenties parties and all that jazz. - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes when a famous author - Five Women by Robert Musil

The Love of Money - The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

I hate myself a bit for getting sucked into this one…. - The Likeness - Dublin Murder Squad #2 by Tana French

What the Victorians Didn’t Want You to Know - Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners. Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset by Therese Oneill, Leigh Summers

Pardon the Nekkid Cover - After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie by Jean Rhys

The Walled City - The Walled City by Ryan Graudin

I liked this better than the other one - Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Hoping to see you soon. And my landlord has complained about her too. - voyage in the dark by Jean Rhys

Drama is catching. - Quartet by Jean Rhys

A Hidden Gem - The Complete Writings: Celestian Selago, Spleen, Fugue, The Apple is Bitten Again by Olive Moore

Pride and Prejudice with dragons - Heartstone by Elle Katharine White

“…Mom says if you don’t come down for dinner, the world will end…” “Is it that kind of book?” I whisper… - Literally by Lucy Keating

I’ve Not Read Poetry Since High School - Life On Mars by Tracy K. Smith

I have seen 5 bears in Shenandoah. Suck it Bill Bryson! - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

An Update to “We Should all be Feminists” - Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Adichie

Some Advice We All Can Probably Use - There Is No Good Card For This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell

The Living turns out to be not so easy - The Living is Easy by Dorothy West

Books are not written about proper children. - Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, Emily's Quest by L. M. Montgomery

The Darkness that Serves the Light - Batman: Knightfall by Dennis O'Neil

Fly, you fools! - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Oh baby - Bridget Jones's baby: the diaries by Helen Fielding

So much more than that girl standing on the subway grate - Unfinished: A Graphic Novel of Marilyn Monroe by Elizabeth Periale

I can get behind a literacy cheerleading effort - When Books went to War by Molly Guptill Manning

Reflections in a Carnival Mirror - The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller

Stop Waiting and Do Something - Redshirts, a Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi, Wil Wheaton

Just because your clients are dead, that’s no reason not to try to save their lives - Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing #1) by Vivian Shaw

Book Club part 2: Ubikonicity - Ubik by Philip K Dick

Deep wells of loneliness - Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

Meta Mystery! - The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

The Best of and the other of Connie Willis - The Best of Connie Willis by Connie Willis

Man this book is funny - Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

Calling All Sellouts - The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

You can never go home again - Faithful Place by Tana French

“Come ride with me through the veins of history.” - The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

“Up North” vs “The M & M s” A Review of The Politics of Resentment, Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker - The Politics of Resentment, Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker by Kathrine J. Cramer

In which I try to start getting caught up on all my long overdue reviews… yikes… - A Gathering of Shadows & A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

Periodic Update on a common Theme - A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

Puzzle Box Structure Means You Can Read in Any Order - Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can Explain by Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk, Joelle Jones, Ibrahim Moustafa

Come for the Science; Stay for the End Notes - The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean

Helping Us Figure Out Why Buildings Cause Such Visceral Reactions - The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton

An Image of an Image. - Unfinished by Elizabeth Periale

Xoxoxoe’s Wonderful Graphic Novel - Unfinished: A Graphic Novel of Marilyn Monroe by Elizabeth Periale

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