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4 Star Reviews

Ta-Nehisi Coates brings a comic book figure to life - Black Panther, Volume 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze

Zadie Smith’s new novel is well worth the read. - Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Another CBR gift that turned out to be a great pick - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Writing in life and life in writing - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Shirley Jackson is the divine goddess of the bizarre and horrifying. - The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

That time A.J. Jacobs grew out his earlocks for his book. - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

The book that ate November (The Count of Monte Cristo) - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

“You’re going to fuck up, but most of the time, that’s all right” - Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson

Ending the L’Engle fantasy adventure - Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle

No mourners, no funerals - Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

The deal is the deal - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Too Many Languages, Too Little Time! - Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner

Do Better. - I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi

Half Cannonball: Complete! With a bit of French fiction. - The List of My Desires by Gregoire Delacourt

A Good Kind of Vicious - Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A truly lovely story - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Feel the fear and GTFO - The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence by Gavin de Becker

I should let my kid pick more often – Review #3 - Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

One Sees Clearly Only with the Heart - Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

Petitio Principii (or “The Circular Argument”) - The Nix by Nathan Hill

A good, warm Poirot to listen to on a cold, wintery day. - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Just as good as the first one, except for this one thing I hated. - Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

Guys, have any of you ever had an arepa? Please tell me about it in the comments if so. Thank you in advance. - An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #8) by Diana Gabaldon

What a weird, dark little book. - The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) by Stephen King

Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Northanger Abbey - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Early Days of the Planet Tralfamadore - The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

What would you do, if you could do it all over again? - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

Double Cannonball! - The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

“Life is a series of decisions and reactions. It is the things you do and the things that are done to you. And then it’s over.” - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

The Girl on the Train: got off one stop too early - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

How many romances have you read this year featuring glow in the dark sharks? - Hold Me by Courtney Milan

Then we shall plumb the very heart of this mountain and eat it. - Library of Souls: The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and just wish you’d stayed in bed? - Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such grave responsibilities. - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

I kept expecting a wizard, but all I got was Richard Nixon. - Camelot's Court by Robert Dallek

The Japanese Ghost-busters go to War - Yamada Monogatari: The War God’s Son by Richard Parks

I’ve spent an enjoyable 900 years with this book. - Courtroom 302 by Steve Bogira

There had better be follow through here - Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard : The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan

Chess, Blades, and Now I wait - Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley

Let the Wookie Win - Chewbacca by Gerry Duggen and Phil Noto

Expose Complexities, Display the Messy - Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums by Franklin Vagnone and Deborah Ryan

“Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification: XXXXX Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes” - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Hogwarts Library) by J.K. Rowling, Newt Scamander, Albus Dumbledore (Foreword)

I’m not actually sure O’Malley did much chess research - The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

Everybody Sucks But Me - Hawkeye Volume 3: L.A. Woman by Matt Fraction, Annie Wu

A book so sweet you’ll get cavities - Nightbird by Alice Hoffman

“the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce” - The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart by Alice Walker

An emotional but worthwhile journey - The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett

Where there is milk, there is hope - Fortunately, the Milk... by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell

“A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.” - The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon

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