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5 Star Reviews

Beautiful and interesting and a great gift for hard to buy for people - Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori

How many legs do I have? - Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) by Tamsyn Muir

Quadruple Cannonballing with the coziest fantasy of the year. - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

“Yes, you’re afraid of me because I’m better than you are. And if you give one talented woman the power she deserves, another will follow. Then another. And together they’ll show that their way is better. Then your whole fake fucking world will come tumbling down.” - The Change by Kirsten Miller

Just Like Home - Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

Bury Me Deep - Bury Me Deep by Christopher Pike

Many Waters - Many Waters by Madeline L'Engle

N.K. Jemisin is the queen of exposition and world building - The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

The Importance of Moving Along on Foot - Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit

One of my top books of the year: a nuanced, thoughtful graphic novel portrayal of Joseph Smith’s life - Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver

“Only once,” he warned. “Only once,” she lied. - Midnight Duet by Jen Comfort

BookExchange Rules! -

“Only problem is, he also has a terrible case of…the frets.” - Stuntboy, In the Meantime by Jason Reynolds

Raintree County - Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr

*slaps roof* This Thing Can Fit So Much Gay Sex In It - Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

The HEA for Trans Kids folks put together another great bundle of books. All donations go to Trans Lifeline - Winter Wonderland bundle by HEA for Trans Kids

Two for One Weddings - After the Wedding by Courtney Milan

“This is how an idea becomes real.” - Saga: Volume One by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist); Saga: Volume Two by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist); Saga: Volume Three by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist)

Greek Myths: A Retelling - Greek Myths: A Retelling by Charlotte Higgins

The Haunting of Alejandra - The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

Amazing and emotional - We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

You’re just gonna assume they’re a she? - Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman; Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman; Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman; Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman

I decide I ought to find out everything in life she wants to say yes to, so I can hear it over and over again - Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

I Mean … Yikes - The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

Meandering but fascinatingly so - Red Nile by Robert Twigger

All That She Carried – a powerful and important book - All That She Carried by Tiya Miles

It made Felix feel good to know the man who so tirelessly championed their past apparently had people in his present, too. - Felix Navidad by ‘Nathan Burgoine

“I’d follow a clown into a storm drain if he had a baby goat in pajamas.” - Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town - A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

“But she didn’t want the moment to end, either. Any of the moments with these people in this place. Even though eventually they had to. No, not even though. Because. Because eventually they had to. Nothing lasted forever. Not peace. Not war. Nothing.” - Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6) by James S.A. Corey

Life: it’s not nothing - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: A Novel by Shehan Karunatilaka

Maximizing the Fun while Minimizing the Waits - Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2023 by Seth Kubersky

Good Advice for Surviving Theme Parks, especially in the Summer - The Unofficial Guide to Universal Orlando 2022 by Seth Kubersky

Ghosts of Every Flavor - Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season by ed. Tanya Kirk

Glory Road - Glory Road by Bruce Catton

The Rise and Fall of Total Football - Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer by David Winner

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

“When my life was new, I understood in my bones how little it mattered what anybody else was doing, or what they thought about what I was doing. I believed my bones then.” - Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

“Very few things are so important you would risk your life for them, but all sorts of things are important enough to risk somebody else’s life.” - The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) by Richard Osman

Foiling spies and spying foils - The Ministry of Unladylike Activity (2022) by Robin Stevens

“You must be patient with me, dear Cae, as I learn to inhabit myself.” #CBRBINGO – Bodies - A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

The Rising Tide - The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves

“Everyone’s oil sands are different, and these were mine:” A Masterful Graphic Memoir - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

This is my reminder to read local authors and poets - The Raven, The Bayou, and The Willow by Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman

Arthurian Legend, Feminist Perspective - Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian

“There’s a Lid for Every Pot” - The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman

This Series Is Growing On Me - The Private Patient by P. D. James

WTF cliffhanger. #CBRBINGO – Heart - Fool's Assassin (Fitz and the Fool, #1) by Robin Hobb

Bleak House - Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Get in Babes, We’re Overcoming Shared Trauma - Let us Dwell in Fair Ithilien and There Make a Garden by materialism, sparklyslug

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