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4 Star Reviews

“Where can I start? - The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil Fiore

More Can Happen Without Mobile Phones - Writers & Lovers by Lily King

Curiosity = Happiness - Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom

Gilbert Baker and a Grand ol’ Flag - Sewing the Rainbow: A Story about Gilbert Baker by Gayle E. Pitman

And I thought my new quilt was bada$$ - Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt by Rob Sanders

My cup of books overflows - When You Look Out the Window: How Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Built a Community by Gayle E. Pitman; This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman; They're So Flamboyant by Michael Genhart

Love Island - Death in the Family by Tessa Wegert

The Dark Carnival - Hide by Kiersten White

Ex uno, multi - Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey

Joys and Sorrows of London - Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

For Harassed Mothers Everywhere - Are We Having Fun Yet? by Lucy Mangan

Save the World! - Stillwater and Koo Save the World (A Stillwater and Friends Book) by Jon J. Muth

it’s so very fun to read a book that is set in a place you know 🙂 - Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

“I never had any idea how much one’s neighbors really can change one’s life.” - Good Neighbors by Stephanie Burgis

Absorbing historical fiction - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

Move over Tiny Rex! The Big Predators are in town! - Mega-Predators of the Past by Melissa Stewart

“I guess maybe that’s how it works in families that love each other unconditionally. You can fight without fear of losing them, and be honest without consequences or repercussions.” - Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun

so far off from what I usually read, and yet it’s the first book of 2023 - The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

despair and disorientation - The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

This ain’t lesser Outlander, okay??? - Wyldwood: Book One by Tava Baird

The Randomness of Food Trends Past at the Antique Store - The Southern Junior League Cookbook by Ann Seranne

“The fifth glass is unarguably clean. Especially because Haf has been pretending to scrub at a stain that isn’t there, like a horny Lady Macbeth wanting to prolong the moment.” - Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

Charming start to CBR15 - Snowdrift and Other Stories by Georgette Heyer

It’s hard trying to look at something unfiltered by the vast acclaim of its author - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Now only the really tragic sections of the story are left - Sandman, Act III by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs

Give me all the cozy fantasy you have. - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Holiday Break Comics Reading Reviews - Why Is Everybody Yelling? by Marisabina Russo; Crumbs by Dante Stirling; Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao; Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, and Oscar O. Jupiter; Will Eisner Reader by Will Eisner; Master Keaton Vols. 2 and 3 by Naoki Urasawa, Hokusei Katsushika, and Takashi Nagasaki

Surprise magical powers and a very cute love story. - Back in a Spell (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #3) by Lana Harper

“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.” - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Can I live in Thistle Grove? - Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper

Hooked on the Alpha & Omega series - Alpha & Omega by Patricia Briggs; Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs; Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs; Fair Game by Patricia Briggs

One of my favourite book club picks of the year - Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

I learned so many Scandinavian swears! - Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3) by Olivia Dade

“He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn’t want it to be over.” - The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4) by Maggie Stiefvater

“Maybe compassion and empathy are just squishy emotions. Illusions created by our mirror neurons. But does it really matter where they come from? They make us human. They might be what make us worth saving.” - Upgrade by Blake Crouch

This is a story about the brothers Lynch - Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater

My 2022 Mercy Thompson binge - Night Broken by Patricia Briggs; Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs; Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs; Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs

The Enola Holmes (movie) book - The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes #1) by Nancy Springer

Pedal-to-the-Metal - Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six - Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger

A cozy, low stakes fantasy about an orc opening the coffee shop of her dreams - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Finishing out my quarter-Cannonball with a little Odenkirk. Review dump 4. - Comedy Comedy Drama Drama by Bob Odenkirk; Hollywood Said No! by Bob Odenkirk, David Cross; Live From New York by Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller

A solid expansion and exploration in The Stillness - The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

“Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.” - A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1) by Marie Brennan

might not be the book you think it is, but it might be the book you need - Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang

YMMV but I get a lot of these novels - Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

again, perhaps not quite as enjoyable as the first outing but things are set up very well for the finale - A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

a Project has started - The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

Fake Meat without the Butcher Shop - The Herbivorous Butcher by Aubry Walch, Kale Walch

I would read ten more of these. - The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2) by Katherine Addison

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