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4 Star Reviews

“I’ll never be a footnote in someone else’s story. Everyone I meet is destined to be a footnote in my story.” - Dava Shastri’s Last Day: A Novel by Kirthana Ramisetti

Local Man Jumps to Conclusions, Thinks He Loves A Traitor - The Meddler by Kate Archer

Don’t know much about baseball, but I know a good romance when I see it! - Switch-Hitter by E.M. Lindsey

That rare unicorn: an actual rom-com that’s charming and sweet! - In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer

Anthologies in Fantasy should be everywhere - Graceling by Kristin Cashore; Fire by Kristin Cashore; Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore; Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

Whoopsie - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson; Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson; As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

Comfy Tropes Galore, But Not Particularly Trope-y - First Comes Baby... by Christine Rimmer

“The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.” - In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1) by Tana French

Gentrification Meets Get Out in Brooklyn - When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

“In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.” – Gustave Le Bon - The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie

Fourteen Hundred Years of History; Still Uncovering the Women whose Achievements were Hidden. - The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak

“Strivers grasped for something better – maybe it existed, maybe it didn’t – and crooks schemed…” - Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

The most poetic tribute to trees since Joyce Kilmer - Tree, A Life Story by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady, with illustrations by Robert Bateman

first up for Tessa Dare, but wasn’t the last! - Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare

and now, for something completely different - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

some out of season books courtesy procrastination - Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

Starting CB14 off belatedly but well - Secret History by Brandon Sanderson

Connection is Made - The Verifiers by Jane Pek

“This could be the most mentally ill family in America.” - Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

Jailbird - Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut

War and Hell - The Last by Hanna Jameson

Short story that needs a novel - Hush by Mary Anne Mohanraj

Last Evenings on Earth - Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

“Stranger things have happened,” I say. “Most of them in the last month.” - The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa

Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - Son of the Morning Star by Evan S Connell

Worth and Expectations - Her Favorite Rebound (Cider Bar Sisters #4) by Jackie Lau; A Very Beery New Year (Cider Bar Sisters #3.5) by Jackie Lau

Space Oddity - The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

Ozark Noir - Saving Grace by Debbie Babitt

The Next Chapter - Run Book One by John Lewis

What kind of poem would a bird carry in its pocket? - If This Bird Had Pockets by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

“Burn it down, Charlie. Burn it all down.” - Firestarter by Stephen King

A tale as old as time - The Women of Troy: A Novel by Pat Barker

Clay’s Ark - Clay's Ark by Octavia Butler

What we talk about when we talk about shame - A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself by Peter Ho Davies

Turning in my Feminist Card - Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real about Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America by Amy Reed

“Archer…dressed in the evening because he thought it cleaner and more comfortable to do so” - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Jubilee - Jubilee by Margaret Walker

Ferrante Never Misses - The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante

The Sugar Queen and the Mixer King - Sweethand by N.G. Peltier

“Life was far from harried here. But neither was it still.” - Still Life by Louise Penny

I Am Somewhat Less in Awe, But Still In It - House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J Maas

How to live a longer, healthier life with 9 strategies - The blue zones: lessons for living longer from the people who've lived the longest by Dan Buettner

Stripped - Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski

“There is more than one kind of freedom. . . . Freedom to and freedom from.” - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Comics and exercising: the perfect combination - The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

“As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.” - All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Jake Tong didn’t believe in love at first sight, not until it happened to him. - Her Favorite Rebound by Jackie Lau

New Ideas for Old Tropes - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone - Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin

Liked it! Wish it was longer. - She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women by Jennifer Wright

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