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5 Star Reviews

all about love - all about love by bell hooks

The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories… - The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories... by Agatha Christie

“Some days are just survival days, and that’s OK” - How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help by KC Davis

There is beauty to be found in the melting snow and McDonalds wrappers - Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek

A Wonderful Exploration of an Unlikely City - Boom Town by Sam Anderson

“The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.” - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

So You’ve Decided to Try - How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur

“This is weird, Madison. You want me to raise your husband’s fire children.” - Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

“Don’t offend the gays and don’t inflame the homophobes.” - And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

The Thirteen Problems - The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie

Damnit, Disney. - Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

The House of Government - The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine

“I’m a bounty hunter. I hunt criminals and murderers; I don’t work for them.” - Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik

Soft Queer Love – Ethical Non-Monogamy Edition - Shake Things Up by Skye Kilaen

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

“Everything complicated is only complicated because someone is bad at explaining it.” - Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer

Her words are sharp enough to leave you with your own wounds - Home Body by Rupi Kaur

A Sugar-Coated World I’d Like to Live In - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Let Them Eat Pills - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Fiction or no? Doesn’t matter, SO good! - Storm by George R. Stewart

Lincoln at Gettysburg - Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills

A Childhood Favorite Becomes a Complicated Re-Read As An Adult. - Tintin Volumes 3-23 by Hergé

‘Western Australia had missed roll-call, but would be able to attend class in 1901 if John Forrest signed it’s permission slip’ - Girt Nation by David Hunt

Goose Girl Redux - Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

A.A. Milne’s Worthy Spiritual Successor - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

When the sun leaves, they bow their heads in mourning - The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

The Man Without a Face - The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen

Sometimes, food is love - Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

A return to the old kingdom - Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix

The pandemic perfectly realized as prose - Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

Network Effect- I’m on a Murderbot Kick - Network Effect by Martha Wells

Introducing your new favorite crime solving duo - Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

My first five star read of 2022. I did not expect this! - Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

Even better the second time around - Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

America is in the Heart - America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan

Slavery by Another Name - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas Blackmon

“This dreadful silence we called peace.” - A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer

Perhaps the best book I’ve ever read on Feminism - Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it…that’s the most important part. - A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

Chestnut Street - Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy

Dusty’s Winter - Dusty's Winter by Maeve Binchy

The Library - The Library by Bella Osborne

Raven Black - Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

Fighting the Spirit Robot Patriarchy - Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

The Big Sea - The Big Sea by Langston Hughes

The Half has Never Been Told - The Half has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist

The Road to Unfreedom - The Road to Unfreedom by Tim Snyder

A Heartwarming Story of Mutual Administrative Assistance - Network Effect: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

“It’s good for what ails you.” - rez dogs by Joseph Bruchac

What’s Hecuba to him? or to her? - The Women of Troy by Pat Barker

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