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5 Star Reviews

“I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.” - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To Make a Thing as Simple as an Apple Pie, You have to Create the Whole, Wide World - The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Child Power! - Jacob Two-Two Meets The Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler illustrated by Fritz Wegner

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jo-leeene - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

Being seen, being acknowledged: Worth its weight in gold. - How To Party With An Infant by Kaui Hart Hemmings

“Look at this progressive-ass devil. Literally.” - The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel

A treatise on the state of women in STEM fields. Plus Romance. - Hold Me by Courtney Milan

CBR8 book exchange- thanks sister coyote - First Women and White Trash by Kate Andersen Brower and Nancy Isenberg

No time to read the book? Well then this is the review for you! - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Mon cher Poirot - Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

Never forget your humanity, or that of other people. - Kindred by Octavia Butler

A Christmas Miracle - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Back on a true crime kick - The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi

“Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.” - Nicole Krauss by The History of Love

“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.” - Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

I’ve been looking forward to this one, and it did not disappoint - Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

I was *really* tempted to toss this one in the freezer - Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Being in one’s body - Dust Bath Revival by Marianne Kirby

Breaking Bryan - A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston

Yours, Mine & Ours: Confronting American Racism - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

These are my Fu*k Off shoes. - Hold Me by Courtney Milan

“The Good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it.” - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

Hamilton wrote THE OTHER FIFTY ONE! - Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

This book. You should read this book. - Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why by Sady Doyle

Guess I shouldn’t judge a book by its corny title. - The Year of Learning Dangerously by Quinn Cummings

What the heck are baggywrinkles? - Baggywrinkles: A Lubber's Guide to Life at Sea by Lucy Bellwood

“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? You were sleeping the big sleep.” - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Crime doesn’t pay. - This Is Not My Hat and I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

What the world needs now is the Super Happy Magic Forest. - Super Happy Magic Forest by Matty Long

“Life was so unfair. You couldn’t both destroy everything around you and live like a king…” - Calamity by Brandon Sanderson

“And they burned waxily ever after…” - Wax by Gina Damico

Best Kissing Book of the Year and a Cannonball?! - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Weirdos in Love, or What I Read While my Country was Shooting Itself in the Heart - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

A Palate Cleanser - Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Merricat is just the coolest nickname ever - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

I laid in bed and finished this book so I didn’t have to watch the election results - Good As Gone by Amy Gentry

Sin and Redemption - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tana French can do no wrong - The Trespasser (Dublin Murder Squad #6) by Tana French

“I developed a constitution that could only ever be described as able and hardy.” - Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew

“You see it in all animals – the female of the species is more deadly than the male.” - The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

We’re all building our world, right now, in real time. Let’s build it better. - Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

This book is book crack. - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

For your Pajiba 10 Consideration: Hunky Hairy Feminist - Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage by Rob Delaney

One of my favorite romances this year. - A Woman Entangled (Blackshear Family #3) by Cecilia Grant

Don’t make it weird. - Toddlers are A**holes: It's Not Your Fault by Bunmim Laditan

The Hidden Chamber - Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

Once Upon a Time. . . - Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

Great Start to a Fantasy Series with Neat Magic Logic - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Come on down and meet your maker. Come on down and make the stand. - The Stand by Stephen King

The Book of Three and Revisiting Old Friends - The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

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  • Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
  • 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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  • Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.
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