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5 Star Reviews

I’m finally reading The Handmaid’s Tale - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A book that I purchased solely based on judging it’s cover. - Beartown by Fredrik Backman

This is Dedicated To The #!&&@$ That Was Down From Day One - Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1 by Ed Piskor

We need a new category for Mystery-Love Story-Religious Thrillers - The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

“My sport- the special skill I’ve developed my whole life- is surviving, and that doesn’t leave much room for following Cinderella dreams…” - Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

First the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire. - Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

Freedom, like everything else, is relative. - The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

What a Bastard - The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald

Racism Isn’t Unique to the U.S. - Why I'm No Longer To Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Completely fine. 100% fine. a thousand percent fine. - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

On The Backbone of the World, Beneath the Large Sky, You Will Find Your Name - Fools Crow by James Welch

Epic (by the actual definition of the word) Sweeping Tale of Mythical Proportions - East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Dance Like No One is Watching - The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

That’s about it: I knew what I was doing-it’s really what being a professional means. - A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I’ve got a big stick. - Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

So. Much. Ugly. Crying. - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

This is what KA demands. - The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King

I was worried when I found this in the Little Free Library - The Pre-History of the Far Side by Gary Larson

Why we vaccinate our damn kids now - Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret

I’ll read a Sacks book about the psychology of marshmallows. - On the Move by Oliver Sacks

Down the Yellow-Brick Road - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum

I think she’s part of another story. - Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

To live for or to die for? That is the question. - The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. “ - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Anosche. - A Conjuring of Light (A Darker Shade of Magic 3) by V.E. Schwab

The Best of the Dini/Timm Batverse - Batman: Mad Love and Other Stories by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm

Ending the Anne books, and it’s bittersweet. - Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

One of my favorite times in life–and Anne’s. - Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

A return to a beloved childhood favorite - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

A masterful short story collection by the master of the short story - The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

A beautiful novel about a woman’s writing life - Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Golden Child - The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis Huber

Who is the kind worth killing? - The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

Together, We are Typing on the Keyboards of Time (or Immigrants, We Get the Job Done) - The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang

Murder, British History, and Unreliable Narrators - An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

1, 2, 3, 4, I Declare an Actual War - Deadpool Vol. 3, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by Gerry Duggan, Brian Posehn, Scott Koblish, Declan Shalvey

Sorry. Wrong door. I thought it was the desert. - The Waste Lands by Stephen King

I’ll be fine,” said Bayliss. “I just need to dinosaur Jell-O escalator.” - The Wrong Dead Guy by Richard Kadrey

I am, in short, a man on the edge of everything. - The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

We’ll always be troubled by how things are—that’s how it stands with the difficult gift of consciousness. - Nutshell by Ian McEwan

Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation. - Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

Emotions, Loss, Growth, Resistance - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale

I won’t die. Of that I am all but certain. - Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin

Tramps like us/ Baby we were… - Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

“Kate Daniels in Space” - Fortune's Pawn, Honor's Knight, Heaven's Queen (The Paradox Trilogy) by Rachel Bach

Leia Organa, Huttslayer - Bloodline by Claudia Gray

Quests for chivalry and loyalty in Westeros - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, The Mystery Knight) by George R R Martin

Agatha Christie, in the Library, with a Revolver - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

“And how many times have I prayed, that I would get lost along the way.” - The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Excellent book, God-awful cover. Seriously, Avon Marketing Department, WTF? - White Hot by Ilona Andrews

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