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5 Star Reviews

Greatest Hits of Teaching… - Beowulf by Unknown (Translated: Seamus Heaney)

Excellent Surprise - If Our bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body by James Hamblin

Wildly different from the first book and yet still so good - A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2) by Becky Chambers

Gus the Fisherman - The River Why by David James Duncan

One step sideways from reality - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

“We’re all wired into a survival trip now.” - Transmetropolitin Vol 1: Back on the Street by Warren Ellis

You’ll Never Be Able to Look Away Again - The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

How to Write a Knitting Pattern That Looks Professional - The Beginners Guide to Writing Knitting Patterns by Kate Atherley

Jane Austen is the best palate cleanser out there. - Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders by Josephine Ross and Henrietta Webb

There will be no June 27th this year. . . - The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Sex Object: A ( ball bustingly honest ) Memoir - Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti

Student Reads: March - March 1-3 by John Lewis

Teenage Vel Veeters would be proud - Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

The Best Version of Batman - Batman Adventures Vol. 1 by Kelley Puckett

Understanding Comics - Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Our bodies, our selves. - Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

All these women with their dreams shattered - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

I’m Holding Out for that Teenage Feeling - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Believe women. - Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

“If you take nothing else away from this book, I hope it’s that sick people are not villains. They are unwell. It’s impossible to say this enough.” - Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright

I think I like the stories a lot more than the novels. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It took 4 years for this book to come out — I can’t wait til the next one!! - Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley

Back to ZOMBIES! Yay!! - Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy Book 1) by Mira Grant

“Of course it’s Loki, it’s always Loki” - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

A historical romance with a murder investigation and lots of angst - Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase

You want something different in a romance? Here you go! - The Young Blood (No Better Angels #4) by Erin Satie

… and Then the Murders Began. - It by Stephen King

The First Book After Baby WOULD Be The Nest - The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

“We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.” - Kushiel's Avatar (Kushiel's Legacy #3) by Jacqueline Carey

This book is now at the top of my “books to give to friends” list - The Unseen World by Liz Moore

Clouds of Witness - Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers

Even Idiots Occasionally Speak the Truth Accidentally. - Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

Y’all are going to love this one - Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright

“I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.” - Wonder (Wonder #1) by R.J. Palacio

Too long, an unrequited love of freedom - Twelve Years A Slave by Solomon Northup

“If you stop running, you fall.” - Jackdaw by KJ Charles

I’m not crying, you’re crying - A monster calls by Patrick Ness

This book is better than you can even imagine. No joke. - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

An old favorite is still great on another read through - Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long

And you’re stuck to this corner like a streetlight… - The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Yer Getting 75% More Plot in the Book than the Movie - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

If a Pajiban was to write Serenity fan fiction (and get it published.) - Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Jones, Victoria Jones - They Came To Baghdad by Agatha Christie

“It sounds like I’m the Defense Minister of Ghosts and Goblins, but as long as the job is “all fairly self-explanatory…” - The Rook (The Checquy Files #1) by Daniel O'Malley

Heartfelt and painful romance - Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran

Making a Complicated Topic Easier to Understand - Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis

Thank You Cannonballers! - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

“The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.” - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rolwing, Jim Dale (narrator)

“We’re of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.” - The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase

A stunning debut about police brutality and teenagers. - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
  • Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
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