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5 Star Reviews

Living your dream - The Lady in Red by Kelly Bowen

Dangers and Epicness Get Cranked up to 11 in The Expanseverse - Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

Might be one of my favorites of the year - Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast by Marc Maron, Brendan McDonald, John Oliver

A very cute retelling - Geekerella by Ashley Poston

They way this one ended, the next is going to be one hell of a show - Super Powereds: Year 3 by Drew Hayes

It’s time to step up the game - Super Powereds: Year 2 by Drew Hayes

The start of a favorite series by a favorite author - Super Powereds: Year 1 by Drew Hayes

Wait, what do you mean I have to wait for the next one?!? - Going Rogue by Drew Hayes

The review I forgot to write - Split the Party by Drew Hayes

This one was my gateway drug - NPCs by Drew Hayes

Lovely gifts from the awesome melanir - The Honey Month; Sea of Poppies by Amal El-Mohtar; Amitav Ghosh

Cannonball Gift Exchange. Thank you so much ElCicco - The Radium Girls, The Keeper of Lost Things, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Kate Moore, Ruth Hogan, Sherman Alexie

Accio Cannonball - Harry Potter Books 1-7 by JK Rowling

How flattering, I said, meaning the opposite - Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

I don’t know how I let things get so out of control, but I do - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever. - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Gifts! - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

As If Acne and Puberty Weren’t Enough – Confessions of a Teenage Dragon - The Guardian of Gildain, Book 1: Snow Dragon by M.L. Miller

One to Bind Them All - Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

I’m Nuts About Corgis too, Hunter - Mockingbird: I Can Explain & My Feminist Agenda (Volumes 1 & 2) by Chelsea Cain (writer), Kate Niemczyk, Joelle Jones, Rachelle Rosenberg, Ibrahim Moustafa

Min Kamp part II: Where the picture of the smoking author embarrasses me at school. - My Struggle: Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard

It’s a Cannonball, Bitch! - Bitch Planet Book 2: President Bitch by Kelly Sue DeConnick

We All Hunger - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

I wish to subscribe to the Lindy West newsletter. - Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West

There’s a reason my “permission to DNF” system exists. - Why Can't I Be You by Allie Larkin

Why aren’t we all talking about this book?! - We Are Legion by Dennis E Taylor

Adorable Book is Adorable - Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

More Pink, Please - The Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown

Squirrel Girl, Squirrel Girl, powers of squirrel and also girl! DOUBLE CANNONBALL (finally)! - The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, vol 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North and Erica Henderson

The Power of Story - My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman

This book is my everything. - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

“Sometimes Bad Guys are the only Good Guys you get.” - Artemis: A Novel by Andy Weir

Savoring this series - Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey

At the End, It All Comes Down to Choice. Final Thoughts on Harry Potter - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, Jim Dale (narrator)

“This kind of feels like a first date. I have that same feeling you get five minutes before you meet the other person, when you’re giddy about where things might go.” - We're Going to Need More Wine: stories by Gabrielle Union

“People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing.” - The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Necessary Trouble - March: Books Two and Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin (co-writer), and Nate Powell (artist)

Sisters torn apart by a horrible event - The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

Now the third one is out, you can read all three in a row! - The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3) by N.K. Jemisin

A Chronicle Of 10 Short Lives - Another Day In The Death Of America by Gary Younge

This return to childhood never disappoints (a slightly feminist review) - The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Min Kamp, min kamp, my lovely lady romp - My Struggle 1: A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard

destruction, decimation, desolation, devastation….. Annihilation. - Annihilation - Book One of the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer

The Room Where It Happens - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao

Here am I sitting in a tin can - The Martian by Andy Weir

Avenge me, but more importantly, keep my comics safe - Fire Boy; Earth Boy (Djinn-son Duology) by Sami Shah

Love Always, Charlie - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

An Earworm of an Anthology - When You're Strange by Sarah Vestal and Danne Boyd, Editors

Defenestrated Dingoes! - Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse) by Jim C. Hines

A Classic and a Classic and a Classic - The Picture of Dorian Gray; Masters of Atlantis; First Snow on Fuji by Oscar Wilde; Charles Portis; Yasunari Kawabata

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