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5 Star Reviews

It would technically be fiction, but the kind of fiction that was true in all the ways that mattered. - System Collapse by Martha Wells

One of My Top Books of the Year - The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy (edited by Hugo Vickers)

One of My All-Time Favorite Works of Art - Fruits Basket Collector's Edition Vols 1-12 by Natsuki Takaya; Fruits Basket Another Vols 1-4 by Natsuki Takaya

A lovely novel taking you into the world of Old Hollywood an behind the imagined curtain of a Hollywood Starlet - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Think of ingredients like household cats – if they’re helping, you can always add more. - The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food you can make so you don't die by Zilla Novikov, Rachel A. Rosen

Musings on Comics - Runaways Vol 6: Come Away with Me by Rainbow Rowell; Runaways Vol 5: Cannonfodder by Rainbow Rowell; Runaways Vol 4: but you can't hide by Rainbow Rowell

So tell me, little sister: What are you prepared to do, for what you want? - He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

Yo Ho Ho and a Pot of Tea - A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne

CBR 15: North America – Sexy Hockey Smut - Pucking Wild by Emily Rath

CBR 15 Bingo: Politics – Mistborn Era 1 - The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson; The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

For my young reader, at least, it was a huge success - Hidden Figures: Young Readers' Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly

“It isn’t just taking a life that destroys a people. It’s taking their history.” - Thistlefoot: A Novel by GennaRose Nethercott

Flowing friendship - The Musician (Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water) by Xuefeng Liu

“An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched” - The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2012) by emily m. danforth

An unsurpassed blast from the past - 11/22/63 by Stephen King

A must read for folklore and pop culture enthusiasts - Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

How do we become human except in the face of adversity? - Happiness by Aminatta Forna

A Future I Can Believe In - The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

There is the crime and there is the silence. - The Guest Book by Sarah Blake

The Magic of Making Yourself a Home - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Around the world in 72 days – and more than that - 19th Century Female Explorers by Caroline Roope

Willpower alone won’t guarantee survival. - She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Great Book—But Still Not Pleased With The Outcome. - The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA by Jorge L. Contreras

Lest We Forget - I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams

Gird Your Loins. But It’s Worth It. - The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

“Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.” - Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Spending time in these worlds is my happy place. The problems arise when it’s time to leave…” - It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth: An auto-bio-graphic-novel by Zoe Thorogood

“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.” - Tomorow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends? - A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre

CBR 15 Bingo – Strange Worlds - The Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert

What’s in a name? - The Swifts A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

Rough but Important Middle Grade Novel - No Place Like Home by James Bird

Eyyyyy, I’m readin’ a book here! - Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics by Ed. Tim McLoughlin

CBR15 Bingo: Picture This - Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kokabe

“Before I learned civility / I used to scream ferociously” - Sawkill Girls (2018) by Claire Legrand

Gay selkies for us all! - The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

The Duelist and the Duke’s Wife - Entangled by Mary Lancaster

CBR15 Bingo – Queer Lives - That One Night by Emily Rath; Pucking Around by Emily Rath; Pucking Ever After by Emily Rath

Gilgo Beach - Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker

“Oh wretched little one—just like evildoers, the wretched don’t die easy.” - Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan

Alphabetical Adventure. - The Imaginary Alphabet by Sylvie Daigneault

An Amazing Nigerian-Inspired Fantasy - Forged By Blood by Ehigbor Okosun

A happy revisit to an old fave - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

It’s Always Those People - The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

A Romance About the Tragedy of Comedy and Second Chances Through Time Travel - New Adult by Timothy Janovsky

Bloody fairy tales - The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

“I’ll say it again, ideas are fragile things and sometimes it takes multiple people to pull a good one out of the ether. Just make sure everyone is pulling in the same direction. - Saga (Volume 10) by Brian K Vaughan

“Honor without intelligence is a disaster. Honor could lose the war.” - The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara

To Bomb Atomically - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

If Disney’s WALL-E met Noah’s Ark and narrated by all the nature hosts you know - The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker

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