“In my experience, those who have the greatest respect for the rules also take the most enjoyment in breaking them.” - The Guest List by Lucy Foley
I kept imagining Father Brown’s bicycle just around the corner. - Welcome to Murder Week by Karen Dukess
A Little Past Its Due Date - The Snapper (Barrytown #2) by Roddy Doyle
Review of the Alibis Collection - Death Row by Freida McFadden; The Ex-Wives Club by Sally Hepworth; False Note by David Lagercrantz; The Skydivers by Chris Bohjailian; Good Neighbors by Chad Zunker; Small Things by Wanda M. Morris
People are strange, when you’re a stranger - Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
It’s hard to resist a book described as “The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula” - Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
“Politics is like dice: the better the player, the worse the man” - Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
Talking Cats are Still Cats - The Olympian Affair by Jim Butcher
A Wordless Comic Means No Fun Quote Review Title - A Sea of Love by Wilfred Lupano, Gregory Panaccione (illustrator)
Soft red petals using white sharp teeth - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
A Sheep Detective Story! - Three Bags Full: A Novel by Leonie Swann
“I’m such a loser in the game of life.” - Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady
Despite her past experiences with murders, she had not yet learned that the most inescapable force in the world is irony. - The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray
“But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.” - Home by Marilynne Robinson
“Remember what you must do when they undervalue you, when they think your softness is your weakness, when they treat your kindness like it is their advantage. You awaken every dragon, every wolf, every monster that sleeps inside of you and you remind them what hell looks like when it wears the skin of a gentle human.” - wild embers: poems of rebellion, fire, and beauty by Nikita Gill
“The right way isn’t the only way.” - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.” - Revelation by C.J. Sansom
Reliving the Past Doesn’t Always Work Out - Blitz by Daniel O'Malley
Four Kids and a Comic Club - The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud
A friend recommended - One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe by Dara Horn
The Wheat Whisper or Father of the Green Revolution, - Hero for the Hungry : The Life and Work of Work of Norman Borlaug by Peggy Thomas
The grandfather, the boy, the guitar and the song - The One About the Blackbird by Melanie Florence
Dusty town It’s a busy village Every day Like the one before Little town Full of little people Wanting to say, WHERE THE F IS SUNDAY? - The Lost Sunday by Iléana Surducan
“Regrets are more fun when the choices they derive from are made intentionally.” - How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis; Last Chance to Save the World by Beth Revis
Guilty as Charged - We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls #1) by Karin Slaughter
Midsomer Murders-Y - The Word is Murder (Hawthorne and Horowitz #1) by Anthony Horowitz
In the Early 1980s Fujiwara Maki began a picture diary - My Picture Diary by Maki Fujiwara
“…it is sad, of course, to forget. But it is a lonely thing to be forgotten.” - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
She has a secret - Ellie Has a Secret by Amelia Bothe
She got the picture - Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham by Elizabeth Partridge
But what kind of cheese? - When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
When I probe the gallimaufry of blurred memories from that night I can still feel the potency of the ungovernable impulse that demanded I place my palms on her bony shoulders - The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older
Sinners - The White Road by John Connolly
If a Gay Man Hands You His Phone . . . - The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Expanse keeps expanding! - Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey
Nightshade by Michael Connelly - Nightshade by Michael Connelly
“There are so many ways to tell it, and all of them are important. But each way paints a very different picture and leads down a different road.” - Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton
“The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?” - A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire
Gotta catch ’em all - The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1880s romance and human rights - Renegade Girls by Nora Neus and Julie Robine
Friends since the 1940s - Are You a Friend of Dorothy?: The True Story of an Imaginary Woman and the Real People She Helped by Kyle Lukoff
The only focaccia recipe that’s easier involves buying focaccia from a store - 3 Doughs 60 Recipes by Lacey Ostermann
One for Pride, both for romance - Amy's Big Brother by BonHyung Jeong; Carousel Summer by Kathleen Gros
Politically topical and relevant but did it stray from what the first novel set up? - A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
Is this sapphic spy romance fun but frustrating, or frustrating but fun? - If I Told You I'd Have to Kiss You by Mae Marvel
Gettin’ some lovin’ - Young Men in Love: New Romance by Various
Misanthrope - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Return by Rachel Harrison - The Return by Rachel Harrison
“Faith opened her book in good earnest and the full tide of death flowed everywhere around us.” - The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly