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5 Star Reviews

Stan Lee and Raymond Carver Walk Into a Bar . . . - The Heart Does Not Grow Back by Fred Venturini

It’s Gonna Be Legen–Wait For It - Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris

Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the wood… - Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on… - Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

De-mythologizing a President - Truman by David McCullough

Talk to me…….. - Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming

Some places are still fighting the Civil War - Confederates In The Attic by Tony Horwitz

Start Here, Commit to Three More - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A story of incredibly passionate love and vengeance. - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Castaway Story for the Cosmos Age, LOVE - The Martian by Andy Weir

A thoroughly enjoyable disturbing novel! - The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

Liv, Forever - Liv, Forever by Amy Talkington

Welcome to Locaville, it’s due to the Heat - Del Amor y Otros Demonios by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Color of Water and Deep Waters at That - The Color of Water by James McBride

Mary Robinette Kowal makes a terrific CBR6 finale. - Valour and Vanity by Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal is a heroine - Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal

Beautiful and one of the saddest books I’ve read this year - Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Absolutely Stunning - Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Prepare to eat way too many pastries - The Art of Baking Blind by Sarah Vaughan

A thoughtful and kinetic deconstruction of superhero motifs, filtered through the touching story of a veteran’s attempt to be a father. - Tigerman by Nick Harkaway

A hilarious and surreal glimpse into the world of the Man Booker prize, as seen through the eyes of a drunken fantasist. - Francis Plug - How To Be A Public Author by Paul Ewen

A wonderfully entertaining graphic novel that reads like a strange and heady blend of Romeo & Juliet and Star Wars. - Saga Book One (Issues 1-18) by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

Not your typical boarding school brats - The Secret Place by Tana French

Hauntingly Beautiful! - The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Not Your Typical Airplane Read - Flight by Sherman Alexie

There Are Some Children Here - We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

Tasty memories - Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

Life is far from dull… (cannonball) - The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer

Laugh-out-loud-while-reading-on-public-transit funny - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Honeymoon Trouble - My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon by P. N. Elrod

Drama and lessons from the school of life. - Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

A thank you turned into an essay - n/a by n/a

The anarchist’s wet dream! - Tank Girl Vol 1 by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin

A pleasant surprise of a book! - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My Favourite Lianne Moriarty book. - The Hypnotist's Love Story by Lianne Moriarty

Unbroken - Unbroken: a world war II story of survival, resilience, and redemption by Lauren Hillenbrand

Where has everybody gone? - Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Some Books Can’t Be Read Too Many Times  - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Fair Dinkum Mate… - Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

The most beautiful post-apocalyptic novel I’ve ever read. - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

A child’s view of the Holocaust - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Kid, I’m Gonna Make You a Star! - Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

Big Little Lies – much better than the Huband’s Secret - Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty

Gun Machine - Warren Ellis by Gun Machine

Landline – Rowell in top form as always - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Black Swan Green - Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

American Gods By Neil Gaiman - American Gods by Neil Gaiman

More delicious Jane Austen-style fantasy - Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal

CBR Book Exchange - The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett

Unique World Building. - Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence) by Max Gladstone

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