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4 Star Reviews

Modern Arthurian Knights - Kingfisher by Patricia McKillip

“I do not want to be anyone’s model for becoming a better person.” - Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston

“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.” - The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

Three Sisters, One Island, Three Great Books - Three Sisters Island Trilogy by Nora Roberts

“I hope these essays have been comforting to someone reading it if for no other reason than to watch me openly admit I have no idea what I’m doing.” - Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song by Sara Bareilles

“A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.” - Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews

“The question is, how can the rest of the country live knowing that so many of us have to live like this?” - Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado

Old Story, New Voices - The Hobbit: BBC Full Cast Radio Drama by J.R.R. Tolkien

One Way to Stand Up and Fight Back - Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual (For A Sexist Workplace) by Jessica Bennett

The book I needed post election - Arabella of Mars by David D. Levin

The Fishermen: a faint nipple on the debut book horizon - The fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

“I am become a blade” - Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Art is an incitement to look at our world through another’s eyes - How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

The Foulest Fowl - Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

“Like Digby himself said: The truth is almost always disappointing…” - Trouble Is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromley

“Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.” - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

“People always say I’m going to look back on these days and laugh — why put it off?” - The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke by Angela Nissel

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

1940s Hollywood Noir for $6 - The Fade Out: Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips

The Not-so Stereotypical Cheerleading Drama - Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston

It Sucks She Has To Explain This, But She Does It So Well - You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson

“The law cannot do it for us. We must do it for ourselves. Women in this country must become revolutionaries.” - Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace by Jessica Bennett

“He uses invisible radiation to turn himself into an asshole.” - Hold Me (Cyclone #2) by Courtney Milan

Spiritualism and the Great War - Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal

“BUT ENOUGH SPIRITUALITY. BACK TO TITS AND BAD DECISIONS.” - Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O'Brien

Cute, but not my fave. - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Only two books left? Wow that went fast. - Vision in Silver (The Others, #3) by Anne Bishop

why is nk jemisin so good at words? - The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) by N.K. Jemisin

Not as good as the first book, but I still liked it. - Tower Lord (Raven's Shadow, #2) by Anthony Ryan

My favorite of these yet, but I can see the story starting to creak . . . - The Shadow Rising (Wheel of Time, #4) by Robert Jordan

Catherine Morland Seeks Her Own Gothic Novel - Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (Marvel Adaptations) by Nancy Butler, Janet Lee (illustrator)

Of course, no religion can prove that it is “true.” - Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

But who in hell was the joke really on? - Way Past Cool by Jess Mowry

Star Wormwood blazes and each one of you that steps out that door will be torn apart! - The Mist by Stephen King

There is some strange alchemy associated with gratitude. - Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol by Ann Dowsett Johnston

“Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars…” - Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

“[An] asshole in the old fashioned sense of asshole” - The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing by Gavin Edwards

Serious Dedication - When Nobody Was Watching by Carli Lloyd and Wayne Coffey

The Variants are evolving, breeding, speaking, kidnapping…… not good - Extinction End (Extinction Cycle Book 5) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Keeping up with the Kennedys … or what happens when you can’t - Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Sister by Kate Clifford Larson

You Will End Up Reading this in Sue’s Voice - Spectacles by Sue Perkins

A great book for a VERY niche audience (of which I am not technically a part). - The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning by Simcha Fisher

How much of you can fall off before something important is lost? - I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

I blame everybody on this website for my nightmare after I finished this book. - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Haters gonna hate - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

The war’s over (for now) - The Human Division, The End of All Things (Old Man's War #5,6) by John Scalzi

College baseball, without Linklater, with the White Whale - The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Is it just me, or it the title never mentioned in the book? - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Anna Should Be So Lucky - The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher

A Worthy Tribute - Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller (Editor), Mort Castle (Editor), Margaret Atwood , Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman , Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman , Kelly Link, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Audrey Niffenegger , Ray Bradbury, Jay Bonansinga , David Morrell ,Thomas F. Monteleone , Lee Martin, Dan Chaon, John McNally , Joe Meno , Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, John Maclay, Gary A. Braunbeck, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Charles Yu, Julia Keller, Bayo Ojikutu

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