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4 Star Reviews

“Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets, I could save the world.” - Scandal in Spring (Wallflowers #4) by Lisa Kleypas

A sitcom “full of minute observations and despicable characters” - Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Splash! - Housebroken: Admissions of an Untidy Life by Laurie Notaro

An Institution with an Amazing History - Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky

“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably” - The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson

A must-read for everyone. - Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit

New fiction about the 2008 recession - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

It’s Jonathan Safran Foer, so YMMV, obviously (I liked it). - Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer

And back to Madeleine L’Engle - The Young Unicorns by Madeleine L'Engle

Looking at Christianity in unflinching, honest terms - Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions by Rachel Held Evans

Getting back into reviews with Jason Reynolds - As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds

Time Travel and DINOSAURS - Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

Turns out, we all do need a little romance in our lives - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Third Trip to Gilead - Lila by Marilynne Robinson

A Simple Love Story - Twice Tempted by a Rogue by Tessa Dare, narrated by Rosalyn Landor

The Persistence of Not Being a Canibal Llama - The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley

Went downhill, but I don’t regret finishing - The Study Series #1-3 by Maria V. Snyder

He really is, though… - Tim Kaine is Your Nice Dad by Sara Benincasa

A great series addition and a filler novel - Broken Homes & Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

“It’s hard out there for a fuzzy little introvert.” - The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

“Dear Y.A., don’t let the bastards get you down! Your friend, Chick Lit” - Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing by Jennifer Weiner

“I lost a Tony award to Broadway legend Audra McDonald when I was twelve so I’ve been a bitter bitch since before my first period.” - Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of Texas! - Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans by T.R. Fehrenbach

A true look at the damages of alcohol, alcoholism, and women - Drink by Ann Dowsett Johnston

Waking the Dead (It’s Not As Zombie-Related As It Might Appear) - Waking the Dead by John Eldredge

In which I project my hypocritical political ire… - Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

Now Put Your Hands Up - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

It’s Finally Time to Say Goodbye, Dear Count - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Better than the first one; still not as good as Hitchhiker - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

Impressive and ambitious - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

A 200 year old forgotten war that inspired more thought than I’d expected. - Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror 1801-1815 by Joseph Wheelan

Yet another thing Bryan Cranston can do superbly! - A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston

Never trust a big nurse and a smile. - Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Femal Serial Killer by Harold Schechter

Inside the mind of a girl who names things - The slow regard of silent things by Patrick Rothfuss

Book 3 of a trilogy that I don’t think I finished book 2 of? - Off With Their Heads: The Prequel to Alice in Deadland (Alice in Deadland #3) by Mainak Dhar

A Monster to Heal - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Plucky Heroine is Plucky - The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

Save humanity and destroy humans - Dawn by Octavia Butler

What’s old is new again. - Michaelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King

As Expected – In a Very Good Way - Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

Fantastic Historical Fiction - The Secret of Abdu El Yezadi by Mark Hodder

I’ll live in the modern mundane world, thanks - Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman

Cerebral and unapologetically feminist. - The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt

I guess I’m into kidnapping (stories) too? - The One that Got Away by Simon Wood

“Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.” - Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

Coyote, the trickster god, is not someone you want in your life - Christopher Moore by Coyote Blue

How *does* the aubergine fit inside the peach? - Do You Want to Start a Scandal (Spindle Cove, #5; Castles Ever After, #4) by Tessa Dare

Ax brings the alien POV. - The Alien (Animorphs, #8) by K.A. Applegate

Harry, stop objectifying the Queen of Air and Darkness. She will END YOU. - Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) by Jim Butcher

Street Kid James Bond - Kingsman: The Secret Service (#1-6) by Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons (illustrator)

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