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The Philosopher’s (Rosetta) Stone - Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts by David Baggett and Shawn E. Klein

When Superheroes Use Tinder for Good! - The Batgirl of Burnside by Cameron Stewart, Brendon Fletcher, Babs Tarr

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream Like a Little Girl - the Martian by Andy Weir

You’re a trickster singular, Rachel Morgan - The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison

And yet, as we are human, and our species’ greatest achievement is speech, we are never speechless for long - The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates

Pondering the Choices That Brought Us to Now - It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario

Creepy Pictures of Old Timey Children Are Creepy - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Why can’t we be friends? (You’re welcome for the earworm.) - The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John Grey, #3) by Diana Gabaldon

Are you happy, Malin? I finally read this! (Also, thank you for my book.) - Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1) by Jacqueline Carey

The Walking Drenched - Rivers by Michael Farris Smith

on the whole I prefer hatred to indifference - Maigret and the Wine Merchant by Georges Simenon

Whale Watching for Lovers - Silver Bay by Jojo Moyes

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Seriously, Araña is a way better name than Spider-Girl. - Avengers Assemble, Vol. 4: The Forgeries of Jealousy by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Warren Ellis

Scalzi strikes again. - The End of All Things (Old Man's War, #6) by John Scalzi

Lincoln was late to his own assassination. - Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

What am I going to do when Sue Grafton gets to Z? - X by Sue Grafton

…like the time when our dog stabbed me with a chicken in the finger - Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson

Normal is Overrated - Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

All Aboard the Noah!…and then Someone Dies - The Forever Watch by David Ramirez

Internal Conflict at It’s Best - Saga Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

A very satisfying conclusion to a fun series - Of Silk and Steam by Bec McMaster

Water for Nessie - At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen

A royal romance - The Royal We by Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan

If Anne Shirley was a Teenager in 2015 - Ana of California by Andi Teran

If Suppiluliuma were here, I wonder what he’d make of the Arab Spring. - 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline

What a peculiar path I’ve had to take in order to reach you - So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano

Silly Merricat. - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

On a Higher Note - Deadly Spells by Jaye Wells

An Unending Feedback Loop - Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage by Daria Roithmayr

On My Own Cranky, Beautiful Path to Faith - Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Oh crap! Live ones!! - B.P.R.D. Vol.1 Hollow Earth and Other Stories by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski et al

More from my Cannonball boyfriend. He can do no wrong, really. - Passenger by Andrew Smith

The story of the Coughlin family begun in The Given Day continues … - Live By Night by Dennis Lehane

A Romance with a Puppy Cannon - The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

A Better Piper - Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman

Four years in four days - The Ivy Years #1-4 by Sarina Bowen

Steampunk serial killers are seriously messed up - The Curious Case of the Clockwork Menace and Forged by Desire by Bec McMaster

Revolutionaries and murder and mayhem in Steampunk London - My Lady Quicksilver by Bec McMaster

He’d tried to court girls by bringing them meat and shiny things. It turns out he’d scared them. - Archangel's Enigma by Nalini Singh

Yes, you! - Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling

Tales from the mortuary - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Money, Sex, Power: Lazarus #1-19 - Lazarus, #1-19 by Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

Good story, terrible audio production - Shadow of the Hegemon (Ender's Shadow #2) by Orson Scott Card

Encryption and immortality - Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Coming of Age: Finding Direction in Lucy Knisley’s “An Age of License” - An Age of License by Lucy Knisley

If Dead Zombie Presidents Don’t Tickle Your Fancy Then You Might be Dead Inside - Deadpool: Volume 1 by Gerry Duggan, Brian Posehn, Tony Moore, Scott Koblish, Mike Hawthorne

Begging to be on the BBC - Murder Fantastical by Patricia Moyes

- Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

That Cover Artist is Getting Lazy - Johnny Under Ground by Patricia Moyes

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