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5 Star Reviews

Everybody’s got their limits, nobody’s found mine - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Mayhem in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Yes, an artist - Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir by Elizabeth Montague

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

History of the Ancient World - History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer

Life of Pi - Life of Pi by Yann Martell

To Sir, with Love - To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne

What Moves the Dead - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

READ. THIS. BOOK. - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

“Dear Sir, May I humbly suggest being less of an idiot and doing whatever it takes…” - The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

Nostalgic Earworms Ahead! - Skinnamarink by Sharon, Lois & Bram w/Randi Hampson; Ill by Qin Leng

Love, Ghosts and Werewolves - Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham

This was exactly what I needed - Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book by W. Kamau Bell, Kate Schatz

Behind every name there is a story - Honeybee by Craig Silvey

“Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator” - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe; Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

“An Indian Affairs agent said, ‘The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?” - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Meet the friends of, and Planet, you are standing on - Ocean! Waves for All? by Stacey McAnulty; Our Planet! There’s No Place Like Earth? by Stacey McAnulty; Earth! My First 4.54 billion Years by Stacey McAnulty; Sun! One in a Billion? by Stacey McAnulty; Mars! Earthlings Welcome by Stacey McAnulty

Relatable Messy Friendship and Romance YA - Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda

“Let it be a story about stories and the power they have to sway mortal hearts.” - The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

An entertaining and eye opening tour through Dave Grohl’s extraordinary life (so far) - The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. - Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Aussie Comedian Memoir Double Feature - Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby

An Old Favorite - Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones

I hide and the book finds me - SmileRise: A very short poem by Bachar Samawi

One of the Girls - One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke

What is space to you? - To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

“But a novel always ends, the lies come to the surface, and the deaths are explained. Maybe one of the bad characters gets away with something—that’s fashionable right now—but you are still left with a sense that things are balanced, that dark things come to light, and that the bad person will, at least, most likely be miserable.” - The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

Bella and Edward are kaiju now <3 - The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

Just keep swimming - Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by William McRaven

Beautiful MG that Spoke to my Inner Angry Child - The Science of Being Angry by Nicole Melleby

Let us all shout - Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

I can’t do this book justice, so just read it and ignore my review - The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to Save Carnegie Hall by Megan Hoyt

Hungry or thirsty? Read a book. - Brains! Not Just a Zombie Snack by Stacy McAnulty; Blood! Not Just a Vampire Drink by Stacy McAnulty

Against the Day - Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

A Severed Head - A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

“At some point it is no longer a question of whether we can learn this history but whether we have the collective will to reckon with it.” - How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

I feel like there’s a Tracy Chapman song in there somewhere - Wildseed Witch by Marti Dumas

Read Until You Understand - Read until You Understand by Farah Jasmine Griffin

Speak, Memory - Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Old School Hollywood with Demon Deals - Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

A quietly thrilling side-quel to The Glass Hotel in the key of Cloud Atlas - Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

The Near Perfect Read Does Exist - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Ramble On . . . - The Open Road by Jean Giono

From 3.5 stars to 5 stars on re-read. Congratulations to me on hypothesizing correctly. - Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) by James S.A. Corey

Turtles are cute, turtles are fun. And when you read about Yoshi, you’ll want one! - Yoshi and the Ocean: A Sea Turtle’s Incredible Journey Home by Lindsay Moore

Helping you to understand the mystery/horror genius - Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaption by Gareth Hinds

Management Matters - Becoming a Better Boss by Julian Birkinshaw

Oldies But Goodies - Futures to Infinity by Sam Moskowitz, Editor

A Goby fishy tells you a story about their home - Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean by Maris Wicks

MASTERPIECE. - Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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