White Rabbit Candies get an automatic 4 stars from me - Messy Roots by Laura Gao
Fruit of a Rotted Tree - Sovereign by CJ Sansom
A very cozy book - The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
A somber book, it’s worth a read - Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
The Red Woman returns, you insect-humping wretches! - Red Sonja: Consumed by Gail Simone
Another Wild Robot book! - The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown
Who says you can’t learn something new? - The Fishwife Cookbook by Becca Millstein & Vilda Gonzalez
Women Will Do What They Need to Survive - The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
A complex fantasy with many stories woven together - Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Xuan Qin
Like Good Luck Chuck, But Not Dumb - Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Minnesota Mean - The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
If someone makes fun of your outfit, fart in their face - The League of Super Feminists by Mirion Malle; Feminism: A Graphic Guide by Cathia Jenainati
Based on truth, lies, myths, and rumors - Al Capone by Swann Meralli
Stranger Than Fiction, Sort Of - The Woman Who Lied by Claire Douglas
“This killer was just herself turned inside out. Her fatal inversion.” - Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney
A heartwarming book I adore - The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
From Child to Political Prisoner - The Boy from Clearwater Book One by Yu Pei-Yun
“I just pretended to be someone else…. And I won an Oscar!” Audrey Hepburn - Audrey Hepburn by Michele Botton
It’s Brutal Out Here (Or “Saw for rich people”) - Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson
A farm? What the hell was I supposed to do with a farm? - Love in Bloom by Lucy Eden
Elves, Santas & Mayhem - All by My Elf by Olivia Dade; Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur; Only Santas in the Building by Alexis Daria
Funny, Charming, and Bittersweet - Nimona by ND Stevenson
Ultimately Comforting and Hopeful - All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny
“You won’t necessarily win against fate, but you should at least put up a fight.” - Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Weird and Sweet - Cat Lady by Dawn O'Porter
“He is a person, complicated and confused. Just like you.” - Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
Gripping mystery, easy read - Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf
“Some of us exist just a little too loudly for the comfort of those who would prefer we did not exist at all” - The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Did we really need this? - One of Us is Next by Karen M. McManus
Just one more chapter… and then its been 2 hours - One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Rage against the dying of the light - Men Have Called Her Crazy (2024) by Anna Marie Tendler
“I shrugged. “There’s a war on.” “Yes,” she said, “and you’re winning it.” - The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
A Dystopian Alternate History of WW2 - Widowland: A Novel by C.J. Carey
Great, other than one of the main charachters - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Good as long as no essay is required - Animal Farm by George Orwell
Mother-daughter dueling reviews - Trell: Nothing But The Truth by Dick Lehr
“Everything’s a game. Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in life is if we play to win.” - The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
“Sometimes it didn’t matter if you broke. You kept going. You weren’t given a choice.” (Bingo) - When a Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
The sibling bond - The Firelight Apprentice by Bree Paulsen
“Actually though, uh…. I do need to use the bathroom after all.” - Orchard of the Tame by Marlo Meekins
I read (almost) everything Barack Obama tells me to - This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Murderbot is back again - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Keep thinking that I’m just a silly old woman. It will make it easier for me to do whatever I’m going to do to stop you - A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Sweet Memoir With A Touch of Self-Help - I Haven't Been Entirely Honest With You by Miranda Hart
Scandalous handbag scheme - Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
“Your silence on the issue of people trying to kill you is deeply disturbing.” - The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Extra, Extra Innings - Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry
La Brea Tar Pits: The Undercover investigation - Stuck! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits by Joyce Uglow
I’d Rather Be an Other Bird - Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
“I don’t know what to say,” she said, after a pause. “I don’t want to tell you a lie, and I don’t know the truth.” - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley