The Past Is a Different Country - The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Ivan Morris; American Monsters by Adam Jortner
A cautionary tale for us all - The Lion Women of Tehran: A Novel by Marjan Kamali
Crime podcasts, grandmas and small town Texas - Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
“If you think you didn’t save me too, you couldn’t be more wrong.” - Where You're Planted by Melanie Sweeney
Baby Blue your friends got you - Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson
The girl you really are - The October Girl Volume One by Matthew Dow Smith
“Saul of my pody, put you are wrang there my friend. It is your fat Englishmen that eat up our Scots cattle, puir things.” Got that? - Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott
A Slow Start to a Series but a Compelling One - The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
“So, you finally decided to come over to the cool side of the Kinsey scale. Welcome. We have flags and the best agenda ever.” - The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee
What Strangers Can Teach Us About Ourselves - The Wedding People by Alison Espach
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same - The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly
“Living my life to disappoint my father had been something to aspire to.” - The Innocent Sleep (October Daye #18) by Seanan McGuire
“You like tea. I like books, Aren’t you glad we opened a shop and forgot the world exists?” - Alchemy and a Cup of Tea (Tomes & Tea Book Four) by Rebecca Thorne
Delightful, entertaining, and informative - In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Room Mates - Make Room For Love by Darcy Liao
“If monarchs are that much against being overthrown, they shouldn’t do things that would make it seem like a good idea.” - When Sorrows Come (Toby Daye #15) by Seanan McGuire
“If I ever find a therapist who works with changelings, I’m going to send Mom the bill.” - A Killing Frost (October Daye #14) by Seanan McGuire
“When faced with true sorrow, people lose even the strength to shed tears.” - Strange Pictures: The Japaense Mystery-Horror Sensation by Uketsu; translated by Jim Rion
“We overlooked each other’s flaws and treated each other well, even when we didn’t deserve it.” - The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat: A Novel by Edward Kelsey Moore
One by One by Fredia McFadden - One by One by Freida McFadden
The Mother Sure Is a Piece of Work - To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth
Cate C. Wells can get me to read and appreciate fated mates like no other author - Ravaged Wolf by Cate C. Wells
Gilded Age Anastasia - The Gilded Heiress by Joanna Shupe
Will you still love me tomorrow - Love Languages by James Albon
Fun with haiku - A Pond, a Poet, and Three Pests by Caroline Adderson
What would you do for your sister? - A Friend for Lucy by Jen-Ai Elena Molineaux
“After 10 centuries of doing this, do you want to know what’s really exciting?” Fern nodded. “Dry socks.” - Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
Required guts, courage, and bravery… So of course she was a woman! - Lighthouse Ladies: Shining a Spotlight on Hardy Heroines by Kris Coronado
A Woman’s Work etc. - A Woman’s Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists & Single Moms who Changed the World with Food by Deepi Ahluwalia, Stef Ferrari, Jessica Olah
“I” is for “Insomniacs” - Insomniacs After School vol. 1 by Makoto Ojiro
Skeletons in the closet - The Ghostwriter: A Novel by Julie Clark
It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose. - Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge
Bleak but Creative - A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
System Collapse by Martha Wells - System Collapse by Martha Wells
A little luxurious wish fulfillment - The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
I feel like disposing of a body is a boyfriend-girlfriend activity and not something you do with a casual hookup. - Lights Out by Navessa Allen; Caught Up by Navessa Allen
“There are no squids in America!” (a la An American Tale) - The Pretender by K. A. Applegate; The Attack by K. A. Applegate; The Exposed by K. A. Applegate; The Sickness by K.A. Applegate
When You Stare into the Void, the Void Stares Back - Voidwalker by S. A. MacLean
All My Life Is Changing Every Day… - Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks
They Call It University - The It Girl by Ruth Ware
“As my squire, part of Quentin’s job is accompanying me when I do stupid stuff; it’s a learning experience. Most of what he’s learning is how to get blood out of his clothes, but hey, at least it’s educational.” - The Unkindest Tide (October Daye #13) by Seanan McGuire
I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that’s where I belong, that’s home. - An Introvert’s Guide to Life and Love by Lauren Appelbaum
“You lost a great deal of blood.” “I didn’t lose it,” I said. “I know exactly where it is.” - Night and Silence (October Daye #12) by Seanan McGuire
“It was possible she’d been too focused on her need for another cocktail to realize we were witnessing one of the portents of the apocalypse. ”The Luidaeg is singing Disney songs.” - The Brightest Fell (October Daye #11) by Seanan McGuire
“Because We’re All Smart Cookies.” - The Smart Cookie by Jory John and Pete Oswald
I exist as either a small canid with thick fur, pointed ears, and neat black feet, or a young woman. Neither are safe forms in a world run by men. - The Fox Wife by Yangtze Choo
“The perfect pass…is the simple part. The living with what it takes…is the mystery.” - American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback by Seth Wickersham
“I don’t get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say” - For Duck's Sake: A Meg Langslow Mystery (#37) by Donna Andrews
Yes, There Are No Scripts. So It Is Written in the Script - Ghost Cities by Siang Lu
Murder and murder and murder and murder and murder on the Orient Express. - Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill