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5 Star Reviews

yes, yes, I should have read this already - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

what a gem of a book, for those with memories of Jane Eyre - Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste

- The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin

“Sometimes Paris felt his whole life was in slow motion with ominous music playing over it.” - Paris Daillencourt is About to Crumble (Winner Bakes All, #2) by Alexis Hall

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

A triumph of love, loss and redemption - Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin

A late-night romance adventure in Vegas - Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai

The time-travel queer romance that stole my heart. - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Not a wasted panel, and every bit as good as I’d hoped it would be - Saga (Vol. 1) by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Review Dump 2: My Favorites of the Year. CBR14 Reviews 5-8. - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin; This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub; Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel; The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

Tiffy and Leon’s Christmas Letters (The Flatshare, #1.5) - Tiffy and Leon's Christmas Letters (The Flatshare, #1.5) by Beth O'Leary

The Heart Principle grabbed mine and didn’t let go - The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

Everyone deserves rest, and you don’t have to earn it - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A glimpse into poverty, homelessness, and the foster care system and what we can do to change it. - A Place Called Home by David Ambroz

Finishing up The Brown Sisters’ Trilogy - Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert; Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

I would have written myself into his skin if only I could, like a prisoner marking the walls of his cell, just to prove I was still alive and that I did not drift, untouching and untouched, through a universe of empty spaces and fading stars. - Glitterland by Alexis Hall

When an Entire Book is a Spoiler - Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

“The first thing I hate is called a Russian doll. It holds a smaller version of itself inside it, and another inside that and so on. How awful. They are prisoners. I imagine them all screaming in the dark, unable to move or speak. The doll’s face is broad and blankly smiling. It looks so happy to be holding its children captive.” - The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

“They were supposed to grow up with their hands in each other’s pockets, compensating for one another’s weaknesses, encouraging one another’s strengths.” - Middlegame (Alchemical Journeys, #1) by Seanan McGuire

If you hit me with your cane again, you’re gone - a good myth is hard to kill by MajorGodComplex

“All stories end the same way, don’t they.” - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Cherry Covered Apron - Behind the Scenes by Karelia Stetz-Waters

A wonderful SF/F anthology for young adults (and really anyone!) - Firebirds by Edited by Sharyn November

Still Holds Up (Now with Less Racism) - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Days Slip Into Days - Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev

“Sometimes, death is a blessing, even if we don’t realize it right away.” - Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

I need to go back there - The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko

Whimsey in the Face of the Mundane - The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune

Birds are amazing! - The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman

Running Joyfully Amok at the Plaza Hotel - Eloise by Kay Thompson

“At one point he brushed my hand and there was electricity, but I think that was the combination of the deep carpet outside the restaurant and my new cardigan.” - The Bullet That Missed (The Thursday Murder Club, #3) by Richard Osman

The Gold Bug Variations - The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers

“We’re all alients to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time.” - Saga (Volume 6) by Brian K Vaughan

A Stillness at Appomattox - A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

The five purposes of prayer were taught to be service, supplication, gratitude, divination, and atonement, and it was gratitude Penric chose now. - Knot of Shadows by Lois McMaster Bujold

“Committing it to ink makes it truer.” - The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

I prayed this was not the doctor. “I’m the doctor!” he said, waving to the children. - Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

That beautiful moment when you wake up feeling safe for the first time in years - the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you by greatunironic

Thank you Bonnie! -

“You’ll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.” - Saga: Volume Four by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist); Saga: Volume Five by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist); Saga: Volume Six by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist)

Three more reasons you should be reading Katrina Jackson - Sabbatical by Katrina Jackson ; Layover by Katrina Jackson ; Back in the Day by Katrina Jackson

Full Cannonball, Total Banger - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Love is both a constant and a variable - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

“Because I know that no matter what, I’m wonderful.” - A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1) by Becky Chambers

It was like a form of meditation and therapy. Squeezing the limes and cleaning the shrimp – that is the memory of food. - Recipe for Disaster: 40 Superstar Stories of Sustenance and Survival by Alison Riley

Finally visiting the World of the 5 Gods - Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold; Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold; Penric’s Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold

We’re all the same to them - The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Why Have I Waited So Long to Read This? - Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes Volume I by Neil Gaiman

A real sense of place - The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman

Our Mothers, Ourselves? - The Push by Ashley Audrain

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