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5 Star Reviews

We’re Wolves - Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Any mom who misses a chance to dress her kid up like a hotdog sounds like a psychopath to me. - Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

90s Pop Culture Drama FTW - Hits, Flops and Other Illusions by Ed Zwick

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher - What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher

Read This Book Before It’s Banned - Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News by Alec Karakatsanis

What have we learned in the past 80 years? (from publisher description) - Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen

Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood; The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Storm by Rachel Hawkins - The Storm by Rachel Hawkins

The Girl I Was by Jeneva Rose - The Girl I Was by Jeneva Rose

You’ve heard of Queen for a Day? This is Duchess for a Month. - The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff

A Giant of Scientific Thought and Deep Humanity - The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

Dear Faerie: We Need to Chat About How to Put a Fair Maternity Leave Plan in Place. - Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire

What? He Quit? - The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron

Books about books are the best kinds of books - 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

“Let’s stop all the fight (Now)” - War Is Over by Sean Ono Lennon, Dave Mullins, Brad Booker, Max Narciso

“That is horrifying and I want to go home,” I said, although I pronounced it, “Ah, I see.” - What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier #3) by T. Kingfisher

A Rollicking Tale of Revenge, and a Reckoning with Grief & Regrets - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

“Now, it sounded almost like coming home. What a difference a few years can make.” - Silver and Lead: An October Daye Novel (#19) by Seanan McGuire

“God is a Troubadour!” - The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz

“When they ban a book, they’re really just trying to cover up something they don’t want you to know.” -

Carrie-ish - The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

Confronting the Past - How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

“I’m looking for something different in a partner by my side” - Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack, Stevie Lewis

Returning Fairytales to Their Roots – Stories that are NOT for Kids - F*cked Up Fairy Tales by Liz Gotauco

The Word ‘Turbulent’ Is Bearing a Lot of Weight Here - Bomb Season in Jakarta: A personal account of a turbulent period in Australian diplomacy by Grant Dooley

I Knew I’d Seen This Movie Before! - The Skin of Dreams by Raymond Queneau

Once Upon a Time in Holy Wood - Eric by Terry Pratchett; Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

“Fellas, let’s go” Well, not exactly the St. Crispin’s Day speech, was it? - Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones

“You make family where you can, and you make the best of a bad hand every time. That’s all you can do.” - By the Horns by Ruby Dixon

The Tenant by Fredia McFadden - The Tenant by Fredia McFadden

Cracking Open the Universe - The Egg and other stories by Andy Weir

The Bloody Chamber - The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

A Whole New World – At Least to Me - A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

Believe the hype - James: A Novel by Percival Everett

Town of Big Shoulders Indeed - The Third Rail by Michael Harvey

This one is wonderful. - A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre

Creating a language is no joke. Or, maybe it is, because I laughed a lot reading this book. - In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent

“That’s just what translation is…. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases…” - Babel or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution (A Novel) by R.F. Kuang

Major Tom? Can You Hear Me? - Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Sapphic golem fantasy debut - The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez

My first introduction to OnlyFans - Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Not Exactly Mexican Gothic, But Close Enough - The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

That which we call a rose - The Names by Florence Knapp

A story of reinvention — willing or not - The Persians: A Novel by Sanam Mahloudji

Beautiful and Hard to Grasp - Jazz by Toni Morrison

One For The Culture - The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry

Short and sweet, with great illustrations - The Dragon of Og by Rumer Godden

I liked this book, but can’t do it justice and F- Cancer! - Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir by Kimiko Tobimatsu

Not All Serial Killer Novels are the Same - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Casseroles, Jello Salads, and Few Funny Names - 1982 United Methodist Recipes Albion NE by Albion United Methodist Church

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