A monk and a robot go camping with a tea cart in search of crickets - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
How to balance social justice, politics, lost love, and maybe more - Soulstar by C. L. Polk
“Caring about someone isn’t complicated. It isn’t easy. But it isn’t complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.” - Small Favor (Dresden Files #10) by Jim Butcher
Very sweet for something that has so much to do with, er, milking - Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta
Theme: Groovy books - The World Below the Brine by Walt Whitman; Kick Push by Frank Morrison; Dolls and Trucks Are for Everyone by Robb Pearlman; We Are Better Together by Bill McKibben
Hitting you in the feels - The Wishing Balloons by Jonathan D. Voss; Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home by Zahra Marwan
Time for picture book reviewing again! - Tomatoes for Neela by Padma Lakshmi; Tilda Tries Again by Tom Percival; Pout-Pout Fish: Passover Treasure by Deborah Diesen
Let me tell you about a secret - Nasreen’s Secrete School by Jeanette Winter
Quietude - I Go Quiet by David Ouimet
I borrowed the cat for the photo - Championess by Tarun Shanker
Current events, old story - Borders by Thomas King
A special book with a Special message - Beautifully Me by Nabela Noor
Don’t even need to have pants to read this - Amah Faraway by Margaret Chiu Greanias
I’ve “stumbled into a mystic portal where everything was weirder and more interesting and infinitely better” - Witch Please by Ann Aguirre
Our Town, Crosby, Maine - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
“What broke your heart so completely that its splinters found their way through generations?” - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
Walter Does His Best, and so do the rest of us - Walter Does His Best by Eva Pilgrim
“If it’s attention (deciding what to pay attention to) that makes our reality, regaining control of it can also mean the discovery of new worlds and new ways of moving through them.” - How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Sundiver – David Brin (1980) - Sundiver by David Brin
“I was going to be the best fake girlfriend Cameran ever had.” - Sips of Her by Karmen Lee
“Love. Family. To be who you are. The things we don’t always get in this life.” - Unwritten Rules by KD Casey
Brutal Indeed - The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
“Even metal melts if you get it hot enough.” - Uncharted by Adriana Anders
So not written for me, but that’s maybe the point - Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
Dune Messiah – a worthy successor to Dune - Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
“I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.” - The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) by Brandon Sanderson
“Of all the myriad races of thinking creatures in the world, the two that most delight in telling stories are the flesh-and-blood humans and the long-lived, fiery jinn.” - The Hidden Palace (The Golem & The Jinni, #2) by Helene Wecker
“And once it had seemed like enough, like such a precious thing, just for April to exist, for April to be allowed to exist.” - For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes
Unearthing History - In the Memory of the Forest: A Novel by Charles T. Powers
Does she? - Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
“I have picked up the old stories and I have shaken them until the hidden women appear in plain sight. I have celebrated them in song because they have waited long enough.” - A Thousand Suns by Natalie Haynes
A girl called Tove – plus, my first (half) cannonball! - The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
Even the sophomore slump is a great read - Tris's Book by Tamora Pierce
If only fighting fascism involved the best possible combination of spices, they’d have long since conquered it already - Pretty Little Lion by Suleikha Snyder
The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak. - Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Gender-bent re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty with a dash of Indiana Jones - The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder
The Devil’s Details - Hit Man by Lawrence Block
All We Need of Hell – Harry Crews (1988) - All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews
I’m still not sure I’m ok after this one… - The Winters by Lisa Gabriele
A Meaningful Life – LJ Davis (1971) - A Meaningful Life by LJ Davis
Dirty War - Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
There’s a Lot More to it Than the Title Implies - They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
“I did not know that there are miles between running out of things to say, and running out of the strength to say them.” - Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
Priouette - The Turnout by Megan Abbott
A book that feeds the soul…literally and figuratively. - A Scone of Contention by Lucy Burdette
Founding Brothers – Joseph Ellis (2000) - Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
There’s a lot to learn and the clock is ticking - Rabbits by Terry Miles
Ghost Lights – Lydia Millet (2011) - Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet
Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch – Rivka Galchen (2021) and 1919 by Eve Ewing (2019) - Everyone Knows your Mother is a Waitch by Rivka Galchen; 1919 by Eve Ewing
I’m always down for a twist on the Hades/Persephone story… - Hot As Hades by Alisha Rai