The Childhood We All Wish We Had - Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Bird families and our own - A Bird Will Soar by Alison Green Myers
Do yell fire in a crowded theatre - The House Is on Fire by Rachel Beanland
It’s magic, you know, never believe it’s not so! - Spell Bound by F. T. Lukens
“The Chicken Basket,” Peter announced. “The sheep bucket,” Caleb declared promptly. “What game is this?” - Peter Cabot Gets Lost (The Cabots, #2) by Cat Sebastian
A Russia I Never Knew - The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Cannonballing with an excellent but very intense mystery/thriller. - All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend - Dead Man Dancing by John Galligan
Oh, the foreboding! - The Marriage Portrait: A Novel by Maggie O’Farrell
You don’t have to be what they want you to be. - Translation State by Ann Leckie
Breuckelen - Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
An elegiac paean that didn’t convey what it’s author wanted - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
More than a story about chimps - The Chimpanzee Whisperer by Stany Nyandwi with David Blissett
Much Tragic. So Drama. - The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story? - Trust by Hernan Diaz
“We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement” - Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
A veritable coffle of bums - The Day My Bum Went Psycho by Andy Griffiths
Flamingos of Long Island Run Wild? Hmmm. - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
An emotional YA in verse - Forever is Now by Mariama J. Lockington
I can’t think of a reason not to give this five stars. - Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
Yell if I can help dig some graves once you’re finished. - The Sorceress Transcendent by Casey Blair
Wild, Inventive, Fascinating Mystery - Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
Looking to the Mountains - Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima
Mothers, sisters, and daughters - The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls: A Novel by Anissa Gray
‘To their dismay, he replied that he may as well do a course on Roman dogs.’ - A Rome of One's Own by Emma Southon
“Life isn’t that messy if you stay away from mess.” - I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Spank Me Daddy, I’ve Been a Bad Girl! - Highest Bidder by Sara Cate
A brief history of the Soviet Union and an homage to Casablanca - A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
“He’s a grief-stricken madman.” “He’s just like us.” - Witch King by Martha Wells
A Subject With Many Facets - The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
An Emotional, Vital Story - Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
Intense, Infuriating, and Brilliant - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
An Immersive World - The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope
All the Rage - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
The End of An Empire - The Final Empire - Mistborn Era 1 by Brandon Sanderson
Wombats are weird, wild and wicked funny - Wombats Are Pretty Weird: A (Not So) Serious Guide by Abi Cushman
And she lived stinky ever after - Ra Pu Zel and the Stinky Tofu by Yin Chang Compestine
“Was it possible that the best bit of him was shining forth, and surfacing?” - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
An extremely thought provoking read, with an excellent audiobook. - Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri
“every death is significant, even when every life appears not to be” - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
A Chorus of Dragons, Series Review - The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons; The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons; The Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons; The House of Always by Jenn Lyons; The Discord of Gods by Jenn Lyons
Lazy Hazy Days - A Nest of Gentlefolk and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
A Fantastic YA Centering Queer History & Adventure - Lion’s Legacy by LC Rosen
Power Down - The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
The Whirling Desert Queen of Rajasthan - Desert Queen by Jyoti Rajan Gopal
The first two books in what I hope is a longer series! - Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo; Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2) by Leigh Bardugo
Truth and Memoir - Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
And the Ocean Breeze in Her Hair - The Voyage of the Morning Light by Marina Endicott
“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.” - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Two Books, One Author: An Eleanor Catton Review - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton; Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton