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5 Star Reviews

This book inspired me to write some of my own poetry again - Great Gusts: Winds of the World and the Science Behind Them by Melanie Crowder and Megan Benedict

Americana Sports - Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association by Terry Pluto

How Many Warm Beverage-Centric Books Can One Woman Read in 2023? - Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

CBR 15 Bingo – Relation”ship” - Circe by Madeline Miller

Sometimes the Hype is Real - Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

“you underestimate the detective instinct of village life” - The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) by Agatha Christie

Beware the . . .What? Were-Cat? - Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints by Teffi

RideScare - Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns

Still not caught up on my reviews, but I’m working on it. - Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry; The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Never Forget - Maus A Survivor’s Tale Vol. I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman; Maus A Survivor’s Tale Vol II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

I cannot live this way. I have nowhere to go. I have nobody to turn to. I am a nonsense. - Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

It just blew me away! - The Story of the Saxophone by Lesa Cline-Ransome

“After all, the Statue of Liberty is an immigrant, too.” - Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris

The past is never past - Beauty is a Wound: A Novel by Eka Kurniawan

Imagine Glasgow, but Make It North America - Aubrey McKee by Alex Pugsley

Emily Rath writes some top-tier smut! CBR Bingo: Europe - Alcott Hall by Emily Rath

The Best Free book I have EVER read! CBR Bingo SEX - Release by Suzanne Clay

“It’s like everyone else got instructions, but we didn’t.” - Tegan and Sara: Junior High by Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, and Tillie Walden

The Only Self Help Book I’ve Ever Recommended - how to keep house while drowning by kc davis

Who would I get to be if I got to create my life from a place of dreaming and not always resistance? - All the Black Girls are Activists by EbonyJanice Moore

When the spirits ask for help - Guardian of Fukushima (Junior Library Guild) by Fabien Grolleau

Next time you call someone a butt face, you might be right - Butt or Face? by Kari Lavelle

Be the grandfather - My Grandfather's Song by Phùng Nguyên Quang,

A natural woman - Alice Guy: First Lady of Film by Jose-Louis Bocquet

The Past Is Never Through - All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby

Beauty and the Beast, Shackled - Marvelous by Molly Greeley

She’s Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage - Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

Magical Reads That I Come Back To Again and Again - The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones; Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones

Walking or Rolling As Praxis, Moving Slow for Liberation - Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour by Jonathon Stalls

The Amaryllis Family (amaryllidaceae): they can make the mightiest warriors weep and drive vampires away. - Veg-table by Nik Sharma

Iris had wanted to be independent, but instead, she’d assembled a team. - The Only Purple House in Town by Ann Aguirre

Doctors Evil - Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

I demand book two this instant. - Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett

This book was a ride. - The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

5 Stars for a Great Fantasy Adventure Graphic Novel - Dungeon Critters by Natalie Riess and Sara Goetter

“I deserve to be seen. To be noticed. To be heard. To be treated like a human.” - Starfish by Lisa Fipps

Bloody Magic Books and the Future Reread - Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs

It didn’t matter how much of her back he was seeing in the moment, progress had been made. - Play to Win by Jodie Slaughter

“I didn’t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s living room.” Ralph Fasanella - I’m Gonna Paint: Ralph Fasanella, Artist of the People by Anne Brouyles

Mind? Blown. - The Tree by Colin Tudge

Lawns are dead, man - Lawns Into Meadows: Growing a Regenerative Landscape by Owen Wormser

More Thursday Murder Club!! - The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2) by Richard Osman

Love and A** Tulips - Flowers and Their Meanings by Karen Azoulay

An Intense Horror on Grief - Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould

In Money We Trust - Trust by Hernan Diaz

I don’t want to be that guy….but Cormac McCarthy wrote a really good book. - No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

“I know why those librarians read the old stories to you. Because if it’s told well enough, for as long as the story lasts, you get to slip the trap.” - Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Shocking - The Power by Naomi Alderman

You Can Call Me Fred, If You’re Nasty - Chéri and The End of Chéri by Colette

Coming to you from across the globe - Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World by Yoshi Yoshitani

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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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