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5 Star Reviews

I’m Glad Her Mom Died Too… - I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

Or is nothing missing after all? - The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein

“As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.” - All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Angst! - The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater; The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater; Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater; The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

The Remains of the Day - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

To the Lighthouse - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Race/Horse - Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

This is a perfect novel. #CBRBINGO – Scandal - The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, #2) by Cat Sebastian

Probably my Favorite Beverly Jenkins book! - To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins

The Day is Dark - The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Ashes to Dust - Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Ornery Agatha Cat Christie - Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire

Saucy and Creepy – Who Can Ask for More? - The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar

Probably one of my top ten favorite Kings? - The Dark Half by Stephen King

“When she looked at photos of her children when they were little, she sometimes thought, Did I notice how beautiful they were? Was I actually there? Did I just skim the surface of my entire damned life?” - Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

The urgent truth of our history is all around us if we choose to listen. - We’ve Got to Try by Beto O’Rourke

You have a deeply strange soul, and it’s pretty incredible - Season of Love by Helena Greer

I unexpectedly fell in love with this one day. - Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

Meet Booger Lizk’t of Elberon or Tommy Tomkins to you - Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy by Jonathan Hill

A’s Midsummer’s Night’s Dream’s - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

“No one’s ever as alone as they might feel.” - Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min

Still a perfect fantasy novella. - The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson

Three five-star books in a row; what are the odds? (Nm don’t tell me the odds.) - City of Blades (The Great Cities, #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett

All right, I’ve finished this bonkers series now, so I know y’all are safe to read it. Five stars. - The Discord of Gods (A Chorus of Dragons, #5) by Jenn Lyons

“There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” - A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2) by Terry Pratchett

Heartwrenching and So Good - The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Peace like a river flows - Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer by Richard Rhodes

The Bell Jar - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Hero with a Thousand Faces - The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The Body in the Library - The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

Dignity - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

“Finding the ocean was as simple a matter as letting a river lead you in the direction it wanted to go most.” - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

A complex, beautiful fantasy sequel - The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

Legends of the Fall - October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish of 1978 by Roger Kahn

“What is a game? It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s a possibility of infinite rebirth.” - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

There is no choice for you but death in flight or death in battle. If you will not trust me, then trust this, at least. And make your choice. - The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

will definitely without question be one of the best things I’ve read all year (although there’s lots of releases in the latter half of the year) - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

new aspirational character alert: mad catlady with speedboat and collection of vintage pornography - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.” - Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.” - The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Passion - The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Othello - Othello by William Shakespeare

The Stickiest of Sticks - The Undaunted by Kate Archer

This one’s for teenage Travis - Chainsaw Man Vol. 1 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

A Childhood: Biography of a Place - A Childhood by Harry Crews

Dark Tales, wooo-ooo - Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

“Tragedy was undiscerning and totally unfair.” - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

The warmth and joy of childhood, perfectly captured in manga form - Yotsuba&! (Vols 1-15) by Kiyihiko Azuma

“How you say what you mean changes what you say.” - Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

King Lear - King Lear by William Shakespeare

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