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5 Star Reviews

Emmalita was right – this is great! - What is Love? by Jen Comfort

To Read This Book, if Fortunate - To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers

To Take Pride - The Stonewall Reader by ed. The New York Public Library

Marvel Comics has Nothing On This - The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

A quest for fulfilment - Piglet by Lottie Hazell

“If we have money, we shall have friends.” – Menander - The Wealth of Shadows by Graham Moore

Who knew a book with “bleak” in the title could be so much fun? (with helpful charts!) - Bleak House by Charles Dickens

An Illustrated True Crime Book for Grown-ups - The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women by Lisa Perrin

SO Glad I Continued the Series – This Was Perfect - Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Dipping My Toe Into Sanderson’s Oeuvre - Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Beep Boop - Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

My new favorite Emily Henry book. - Funny Story by Emily Henry

“She would build herself a life of plenty. She would force her world to bloom as she’d made the pomegranate tree grow, and Santángel would help her do it. Even if blood watered the soil.” - The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

“As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.” - All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells

Cast of *Checks Notes* 300? All Right, Carry On! - The Hive by Camilo Jose Cela

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” - Animal Farm by George Orwell

An Impressive Heroine, All the More So Seeing As She Is Still in Middle School - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

The Further Adventures of Eilis Lacey - Long Island by Colm Toibin

Meryl Streep could have been a movie star - Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

The Worst Party Crashers Ever - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Fairy Tales: a genre by and for “we the people” - Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book by Angela Carter

“Let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate” - The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

Because misogyny has a thousand words for “unhinged bitch” but not a single one for “multiple female orgasm” - If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury by Geraldine DeRuiter

Ask yourself, “what do I want to do with my one wild and precious life?” - Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer

Never Trust Oil Guys. Just Sayin’ - The Case of the Half-Wakened Wife by Erle Stanley Gardner

“Everyone is naked under everything.” - The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

“It hits her full force that her mother is a mystery to her. She could have anything folded away inside her silence.” - The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

Sometimes You Just Need a Good Time - The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle by Jennifer Ryan

“How many Reenas are there in this goddamn world?” - Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk by Rebecca Godfrey

Amazing Blackfeet Thriller! - Looking for Smoke by K. A. Cobell

Life with (and without) Bunty - Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

A Well-Mixed Potion - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

A World You Want To Wear Like a Blanket - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

Murder, Mystery and Mycology - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

“From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes / I waited ages to see you there” - Cassandra at the Wedding (1962) by Dorothy Baker

This deserves to be a classic - Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

“Maybe all I need is a purpose.” - Singing With Elephants by Margarita Engle

Let Me Drift Away… - The Child and the River by Henri Bosco

It is A Truth Universally Acknowledged That a Mantis Shrimp Must Be in Want of Something to Punch - An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

Radicalize your reading through fairy tales - The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Hermynia Zur Mühlen, Jack Zipes; Smack-Bam, or The Art of Governing Men: Political Fairy Tales of Édouard Laboulaye by Édouard Laboulaye, Jack Zipes; The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales by Juwen Zhang

The Intersection of Love and the Law - You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love by Marcia A. Zug

Dodger This - The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness by Andy McCullough

Fantastic witchy YA! - How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

Joy, fusion bbq, music, and love jump off the page - A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins

Chilling. - Snow by John Banville

A Blast from the Past - The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft

The WOW factor 2 - In My Dreams by Effie Lada

The WOW factor - The Crane Girl by Curtis Manley

There’s a Girl in a Tower, But This Isn’t Her Story - Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

Dietrich in Harlem - Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance by Reggie L. Williams

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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...
  • Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
  • 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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