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5 Star Reviews

More Ms. Marvel fun - Ms. Marvel, Volume 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona

The joys of Ms. Marvel - Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona

Forgetting history means we are doomed to repeat it. As we are now. - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Look, ten thousand hours is a lot of hours. A lot. - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool

“I am going to be furiously happy, out of sheer spite.” - Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

A Modern Spin on the Underground Railroad - Underground Airlines by Ben Winters

The sun comes up, just your bones remain - Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire

The Book of Three: the best of old-fashioned YA fantasy - The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

Love as thou wilt, and I love this book - Kushiel's Dart (Phedre's Trilogy #1, Kushiel's Legacy #1) by Jacqueline Carey

“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.” - Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

More than This - More than This by Patrick Ness

Quick, and Fun, Like Riding a Bike (Not a Bronco) - Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

Fantastic Read to Kick Off to CBR9! - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

You Will Enjoy This Book Whether You’re Drunk or Not - You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein

Dream the impossible, make it possible - The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield, Kate Fillion illustrated by The Fan Brothers

“I knew a dreamer, a long time ago.” - The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

Happy Birthday, Zora Neale Hurston! - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

It Pandered to the Audience and I Willing Went Along With It - The Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan

The Headquarters of the Special Snowflakes - The Circle by Dave Eggers

Exploding my to-read list - Among Others by Jo Walton

Practically Practical Magic - Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

Magic Ex Libris - Revisionary: Magic Ex Libris Book Four by Jim C. Hines

Wicked Tales - Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales by Margaret Atwood

The Sun is a Glorious Young Adult Novel - The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Life in the Wild - Big Bear Hug by Nicholas Oldland

“I’m exactly where I need to be” - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

Great Collection of Short Stories for the Most Part - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The Confluence of Conflicting Ideas - Stories of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang

“Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.” - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Everything You Want in an Urban Romance - One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews

Rae Carson is one of the best YA authors out there - The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson

Tentacles, and wings, and Eldritch Horror! Oh my! - HP Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers by R J Ivankovic

Attractively Repulsive - An Exchange of Hostages by Susan R. Matthews

This book is the reason I love science fiction. - The Andalite Chronicles (Animorphs Chronicles, #1; Animorphs, #12.5) by K.A. Applegate

Ringing in the new year with Brandon Sanderson short fiction Cosmere nerdery. - Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection by Brandon Sanderson

“I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.” - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

Just you wait… wait for it. - Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

Remember This Scrappy Little Nobody? - Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

It doesn’t get better than this - Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Let’s take a moment to fangirl over Tana French - The Trespasser by Tana French

Thieves in Love - Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews

CANNNNOOOONNNNBALLLLL!!!! (Oh and neurosurgery!) - When the Air Hits Your Brain by Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD

Seriously good historical fiction that all y’all should read. - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

I think I love this series. - The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) by Stephen King

This was honestly terrifying. - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Things get darker - The Grey King by Susan Cooper

Jane gets to do something - Greenwitch by Susan Cooper

Humanized & Immortalized - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

You can almost taste it… - Dandelion Wine (Green Town #1) by Ray Bradbury

Finishing CBR on a triple cannonball and a great graphic novel. - Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat! Volume 1: Hooked on a Feline by Kate Leth, Brittney Williams, and Natasha Allegri

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