“Oh Lord, give us the strength to survive the weariness of our lives.” - Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
I was going to send all the spider pictures to my sister, but she’d unalive me…. - The Spider Lady: Nan Songer and Her Arachnid World War II Army by Penny Parker Klostermann
Enemy Friends - The Why Is Everything: A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution by Michael Silver
“To peel back the carpeting of the world and tumble into the stars.” - Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Luck Be a Lady by Meredith Duran - Luck Be a Lady by Meredith Duran
A Revenge Puck is a fun as it sounds - Revenge Puck by L. A. Hart
“You can’t add to the list!” I’m aghast. “It’s laminated.” - Promise Me Sunshine by Cara Bastone
Jello-Coated Updo - Barely Floating by Lilliam Rivera
When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary - When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman
You were always so intensely yourself. You made me want to be the person I hid from others. - I Think They Love You by Julian Winters
How To Be A Groovy Witch - Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
An Odyssey Through Horror and Sanctuary - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Sing Me Sweet Nothings! Or, Don’t. - Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
The Wedding People by Alison Espach - The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Not All That Mathy! Trust Me! - The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell
I Only Understood a Third of this Book but I Still Liked It - The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
From Canada to Hong Kong, with Love - Uprooted by Ruth Chan
The Art of the Meal - Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen
Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover? - Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
“Don’t look at me like that’s my fault. I’m just telling you shit I know.” - Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries #6) by Martha Wells
What if…? Aussie edition. - Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
“Listen, direct action—direct action is the third best feeling in the world.” “What’s the second?” “Peeling off a wet swimsuit.” - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Ghost in the Machine - Rubicon by J. S. Dewes
A Detailed Account of the Palestinian Struggle - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Anyway, here’s Wonderwall - The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman; The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman; The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
Cate C Wells is doing something here - The Wild Wolf’s Rejected Mate by Cate C. Wells
Thank you so much, Rochelle! -
Starting 2025 Off with a Quick but Sad Read - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Are you not entertained? - Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman; Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman; The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
Cannonball in the nick of time! - Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
Old favorite, still great - Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
7 stars (out of 5) - Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
“…the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.” - Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
You’ll Be Examining More Than Just the Chicken and the Egg Here - From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves and the Meanings of Life by David Haig
“But perhaps that’s the point: the trials and tribulations of life weigh heavily upon us, but we find people to help lighten the load.” - Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2) by TJ Klune
“I’m not interested in burning myself [out] by whole-assing stuff that will be fine if I half- or quarter-ass it. Being able to achieve maximum economy of ass is an important adult skill.” - Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman
“If you have any sort of personality, someone will eventually want to kill you.” - We Solve Murders (#1) by Richard Osman
A different kind of Tingle - Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
All you need is faith? - Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher; Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
cannonball complete on my other favorite book of the year - The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
one of my favorite books of the year - The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
Love Among the Feral Set - The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
The Hindu-Buddhist Empire You’ve Never Heard Of. - Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire by Herald van der Linde
It’s not too late to be in the year’s best - The Women by Kristin Hannah
A Novel About Grief, Writing, and Love. - Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Magical found families are my cat nip - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
A gripping Southern noir - All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
The best fantasy has dragons - The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond; The Bloodless Princes by Charlotte Bond
Even More Hillbilly Fantasy! - Fae Lords of Oklahoma by Ferrett Steinmetz
These complete strangers just have NO respect for the fact that they might be your boyfriend in your head these days, sheesh. - Grow Something by Christina C. Jones