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4 Star Reviews

We are who we must be. - The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg

I want a bladed fan, now please. - Waistcoats & Weaponry (Finishing School Book the Third) by Gail Carriger

The Fables series finale begins - Fables Vol. 20: Camelot by Bill Willingham (Writer), Mark Buckingham (Illustrator)

Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain. - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

And suddenly I’m sixteen again. - Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command (The Thrawn Trilogy, #1-3) by Timothy Zahn

Reading Under the New Moon - The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

Gillian Flynn: Lite edition - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Not a cologne, not a songwriter - Cool Water by Dianne Warren

Avoiding a single story through many stories - The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I’ve read my horror book for the year - The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

Breaking in to a new hobby - Ultralight Backpackin' Tips by Mike Clelland!

She’s a lounge singer. He’s a linguistics professor (and a spy). Together they hunt bad guys - Off the Edge by Carolyn Crane

Secrets and Lies OR Unhappy Families Make Great Novels - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

An archaeological dig into suburban life, teenage angst, and death - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

AVENGULATORS! Mount Up! - The Shotgun Arcana by R.S. Belcher

The hero’s a tight-end, and you’d better believe there are jokes about that - The Friend Zone by Kristen Callihan

I neither know nor care about American football, but this book was entertaining - The Hook Up by Kristen Callihan

Magic wallpaper & a ghost in the yard - The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen

Riveting story of love gone oh so wrong - Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe

Twisted Soulmates - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe … - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

A Flock of Facts - Crows: Encounters With The Wise Guys by Candace Savage

GA/GL, Part Deux - Green Lantern/Green Arrow Collection-Volume 2 by Dennis O'Neil

A book about the American character and the ties that bind - The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson

There’s a Fork in her Stomach - Three Wishes by Liane Moriarity

Stephen King is Not Your Bitch - Finders Keepers by Stephen King

A re-read of Dragons. - A Dance With Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) by George R.R. Martin

Darcy & Lizzie – Not a Pride & Prejudice Fanfic - Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld

How to Enjoy Tea and Custard While Loosing Ones Bloomers - Prudence (The Custard Protocol: Book One) by Gail Carriger

What happens when you combine medieval poetry and guns? - The Invention of Fire by Bruce Holsinger

Even Mary Roach can make floating turds and liquid food enticing - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach

Maybe Everything Isn’t Hopeless Bullshit - Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

“Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something.” - The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida

Sh*t don’t mean sh*t - Finders Keepers by Stephen King

Well, this one will be a movie soon, I bet - The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

SCTV, SNL, Broadway & Hollywood - I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short

How To Fake Adulthood - Grace's Guide to The Art of Pretending to be a Grown-Up by Grace Helbig

Hanging on the Telephone - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Courtney Milan romances are the best kind of romances - Trade Me by Courtney Milan

The endearing, unpublished works of Barbara Pym - Civil to Strangers and Other Writings by Barbara Pym

Magic as Science. And a way to get the ladies. - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

More Historical Romances and Lovely Ones at That - The Proposal and Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh

A Duke, An Earl, A Comte, and a Laird are trapped in a castle… - The Lady Most Willing by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Connie Brockway

I Did a Bad, Bad, Thing - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

I Think 25-Year-Old Lollygagger Would Approve - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

Nellie Oleson and the girl who played her - Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim

No One Is Safe - Texts From Jane Eyre and Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters by Mallory Ortberg

“Running, I soon realized, was the best way to stay ahead of fear.” - The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey

Books, Books, and More Books - 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London - Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

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  • Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
  • 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.
  • Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
  • Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
  • Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.
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