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4 Star Reviews

“If you loved…” works better in a bookstore - Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Another Easy Summer Read - The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan

This Lady Seems Crazy But I Like Her - Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton

Millennial Malaise in San Francisco - Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte

Not to be confused with that other, other Girl - The Other Harlow Girl by Lynn Messina

I find your lack of Lying Cat disturbing - Saga, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Shel Silverstein with swear words - Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone by Bo Burnham, Chance Bone (Illustrator)

A Call to the Past - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

The diet revolution is here. And it’s armed. - Dietland by Sarai Walker

I’m breakin’ through, I’m bendin’ spoons, I’m keepin’ flowers in full bloom. - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

20 years late to the party. I’m surprisingly out of place. - The Giver by Lois Lowry

The easiest way is always to work through a suitable man - The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson

Fame Uber Alles - To Die For by Joyce Maynard

“Your pitiful souls mean nothing to me.” – Stephen King (probably) - Cujo by Stephen King

A castle full of odd ducks and misfits - Castle Waiting, vol 1 by Linda Medley

A Grounded Story of Faith and Doubt and…Aliens - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Order is Always One Realization Away From Disintegration - Genius, Vol. 1: Siege by Marc Bernardin, Adam Freeman, Afua Richardson (artist)

Forget the stupid rat-creatures. Stupid and annoying Phoney Bone, more like it - Bone by Jeff Smith

I Was a Countess and Now I Have to Pretend to be a Commoner - The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead

I would be non-compliant in so many different ways - Bitch Planet, Book One: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine DeLandro

I Am a Weapon of my Master’s Molding, But I Shall Do What I Please - The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J Maas

How should we live when the world is dying? - The Children of Men by P.D. James

To your union, and the hope that you provide - Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley

Cinderella with naughty bits! - An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3) by Julia Quinn

Let’s Talk about Me! - Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature by Meredith Maran

Quality YA right here, people. - Exit, Pursued By a Bear by E.K. Johnston

These girls are all my squishy muffins. - Giant Days, Vol. 2 by John Allison

He just keeps writing them, doesn’t he. - The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1) by Rick Riordan

We are waiting in the wings for you - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

I’ve seen injustice in the world and I’ve corrected it - Exit, Pursued by Bear by E.K. Johnston

Get It, Girls - Sex With The Queen by Eleanor Herman

WHAT! IS! THIS! BOOK! IT! MADE! ME! CRY! - Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

Buckle. The Fuck. Up. - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

In Russia, dragon flies you - Blood of Tyrants: A Novel of Temeraire by Naomi Novik

The Final (Sherlock Holmes) Countdown - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #9) by Arthur Conan Doyle

The penultimate Sherlock story extravaganza - His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes #8) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Paging Neil Gaiman fans! - The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

A fine finish to Jennifer Donnelly’s YA Mermaid series. - Sea Spell by Jennifer Donnelly

A delightful Austen novel made into a delightful Austen adaptation - Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid

A new Tracy Chevalier favorite. - The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier

An interesting, academic glimpse at intersex issues connected with theology. - Intersex, Theology, and the Bible: Troubling Bodies in Church, Text, and Society by Susannah Cornwall, ed.

“Bitches gots to learn.” - Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro

I’m the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you will ever meet. - Ice and Bone: Tracking an Alaskan Serial Killer by Monte Francis

Welcome to the island of misfit (or taxidermied) toys. - Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

Spindle–Not Cabot–Cove - A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare

Voltron for grown-ups? - Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

Couldn’t the whole book have been about the Monkey King? - American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Sad, but very interesting - The Light of the Fireflies by Paul Pen & Simon Bruni

The truth behind the Sexy Tudors - The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

I wish I’d read this book years ago - Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis

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  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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