A different kind of time travel? - Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
“One of Harold Nicolson’s many endearing traits was to invent occasions brought about by some preposterous and improbable action on his part.” - Harold Nicolson: A Biography (Volume I: 1886-1929) by James Lees-Milne
I should have loved this but I didn’t…? - The Scar (New Crobuzon #2) by China Miéville
Things Are Really Beginning to Take Shape - The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima
Twisted Tales to Tell in the Night - Twisted Tales to Tell in the Night by Stephanie Rose
Silent—and Silenced—Stories - The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
Baby’s first Proust - Swann in Love by Marcel Proust
GBBO Romantasy Meringue - A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner
hot take scifi short stories are the highest art form, even if not every one lands 100% - Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
They Have Been Through It - Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything by Alyson Stoner
FaeFae - Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
I guess I’m rooting for the serial killer - Murder for the Modern Girl by Kendall Kulper
I think he liked to dance - Willi Ninja: Vogue Legend by Joy Michael Ellison
Native artists give insight - Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale
This book is like reading an entertaining action movie - The Blonde Who Came in from the Cold by Ally Carter
If Jane Austen had taught Naomi Moreno anything, it was to watch out for the George Wickhams of the World. - The Wedding Con by Janine Amesta
The woods will trick you. - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
“Heroism is often the seemingly spontaneous result of a lifetime of preparation.” - Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
A Good Sequel With a Great Cliffhanger - The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima
Romance Focused on Overcoming Fear - The Wedding Con by Janine Amesta
hot take yes this is an info dump but also I will mainline more cosmere - Isles of the Emberdark by Brandon Sanderson
Sad books that help make it better - The Fabric of Us by Aditi Anand; Where Are You, Eddie? A Companion to Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen and Gill Smith
A More Complete Version of Huck Finn - James by Percival Everett
“Time remembered does not flow smoothly at all” - The Truants by Kate Weinberg
There was joy for having arrived, and sorrow for having left, and no way to even pretend this was home. - The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
A TV Tie-in that Works - The Rise of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee; The Shadow of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee
“I am proud to be part machine.” - Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
Scary Librarian - The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hogdson
Family: can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em - Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
A king, a princess, the masters of wizardry, and a dragon walk into a grove - The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
Did a chick? Dud a chum? - The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
Shifters, fairies, bake offs, oh myyyy - The Alpha and the Baker by Roxie Ray
This sounds like something I would say, and I’m slightly concerned that the person I relate to most at this table is the one who added protein powder to his wine - Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun
Framed in Death by J.D. Robb - Framed in Death by J.D. Robb
”He still doesn’t know who he’s most scared of: the hooligans with tattoos or the hooligans with ties and suits.” - Us Against You: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
“I was fifteen when I decided to go to America and make a name for myself,” Allen Say - The Inker's Shadow by Allen Say
She ain’t no Pretty Pink Pretty princess - Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince
1 review plus 3 books equals one awesome series - Gina and the Last City on Earth (Hilo #9) by Judd Winick; Rise of the Cat (Hilo #10) by Judd Winick; The Great Space Iguana (Hilo #11) by Judd Winick
When your duet partner chirps - Beatrice and the Nightingale by Patricia Newman and Isabelle Follath
A Monster-Hunting Take on the KKK - Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark
“Did you see stars?” “The whole Milky Way.” - Right Next Door by Sophie Andrews
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman - Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
You are all Dead Spirits - Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix; Craig Cormick
Who has the right to history? - The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint - Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
“She writes that she will walk across the ocean to be with her lover. He sees this, not as a declaration of love, but as a statement of a single-mindedness so total that a kind of grandeur creeps into it.” - In Pursuit of Love: A Journey in the Footsteps of Obsession by Mark Bostridge
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor - Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Wherever You Go, There You Are - The Killer Question by Janice Hallett; Kiss Her Goodbye by Lisa Gardner
Putting the Ire in Ireland - The Drowned by John Banville
“I know you’re tough. But also, you don’t have to be that way with me if you don’t want to.” - Love at First Flight by Janine Amesta