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4 Star Reviews

A historical romance with antiques appraisals - Lady Be Good by Meredith Duran

Romance Despite Expectations - The Proposal by Mary Balogh

Batsheba Everdene. Pretty decent farmer, dreadful judgement in matters of men - Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The Only Thing Constant In Life Is Change - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Romantic suspense that came recommended and which I now, too, recommend - Against the Dark by Carolyn Crane

until next time, sister! - The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz

I think it might be quite emotionally exhausting to be a twin - I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Cannonball: a Family Affair - Bastards: a Memoir by Mary Anna King

Dragons! - Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

Revisiting a favorite from when I was 10. - Lizard Music by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

A really good read, but I don’t get all the fuss. - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Hey, boy. Who’s dreaming YOU? - The Sandman Vol.6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman, et al

In which I endorse a recent NPR romance recommendation - Topaz by Beverly Jenkins

Dusting Fools Left And Right - Promise of Blood & The Girl of Hrusch Avenue by Brian McClellan

I Fall To Pieces - The Heart Does Not Grow Back by Fred Venturini

Hollywood Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Killing Pretty by Richard Kadrey

A romance that hit me right in the feelings - The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan

You Can Take the Captain Out of the Enterprise But… - Star Trek Mirror Universe – Rise Like Lions by David Mack

Frank Herbert – Master of Extreme Worlds - The Lazarus Effect by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom

The silence is unbearable - Outrage by Arnaldur Indridason

“They never realized they were puppets…made to dance and love and die and suffer…just like me…” - Deadpool Killogy: Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, Deadpool Killustrated, and Deadpool Kills Deadpool by Cullen Bunn

The Life Worth Living - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

A lovely little treat for any book lover. - 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

More Historical Romances, Ones I Really Like - What Happens in London and Blame in on Bath by Caroline Linden

The Lion’s Courtship - The Lion's Courtship (Anna Kronberg Thrillers) by Annelie Wendeberg

Star Wars Rebels Origin Story: Yes, I watch cartoons. - An New Dawn: Star Wars by John Jackson Miller

In search of lost souls - Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason

An Interesting Romance Told Well - The Year We Fell Down (The Ivy Years #1) by Sarina Bowen

“It’s fear that makes us lose our conscience. It’s also what transforms us into cowards.” - The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (translated by Mattias Ripa, Blake Ferris, Anjali Singh)

Some destructive force - Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason

A Charming New Romance - When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare

The game is always afoot! - The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

What if PG Wodehouse had written Wuthering Heights? - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Why Don’t We Wear More Kilts? - American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventure of an Unlikely Patriot by Craig Ferguson

Worth it for the pictures alone - Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin

I can’t really review this with the detail it deserves. But trust me, it was really good. - An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Louder than Orange - Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh

Renaissance Betty Friedan - Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

All hail the Queen! - You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day

Let the Bodies Hit the Floor - Antigone by Sophocles

Medical Mysteries FTW - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” - The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

To Hell By Compass - The Martian by Andy Weir

This Book is Not Duggar Approved - Graceling by Kristin Cashore

You’ll Never Look at Clouds the Same Way Again - Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley

Airplane Crashes and Bobby Socks - In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

Sinister’s Little Sister Gets Her Man - The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

The Nightingale - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Sort of My Kind of Girl? - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Lena Dunham

And the story picks up 300 years later . . . - Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3) by Dan Simmons

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