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5 Star Reviews

Re-reading Mistborn, Part Five - Shadows of Self (Mistborn, #5) by Brandon Sanderson

To Love and Be Loved. Out Loud. - D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins

“Faith is about what you do. It’s about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It’s about making sacrifices for the good of others– even when there’s not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.” - Changes by Jim Butcher

“What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world’s expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves. What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.” - Untamed by Glennon Doyle

How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This - A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving (1989) - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Biography of Remus J. Lupin - All the Young Dudes by MsKingBean89

Let’s spend a little of your hard-earned Christmas book buying budget on some books we wished we could have read as children. - What if, Pig? by Lizzie Hunter; Dad & The Dinosaur by Gennifer Choldenko; Captain Starfish by Davinia Bell; You've Got Dragons by Kathryn Cave; When You Are Brave by Pat Zietlow Miller

Fuck The Patriarchy - The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy

“Old people, young people. Everybody needed a cup of tea sometimes. Just an hour or two to sit and do something nice, and then they could get back to whatever it was.” - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A tense, haunting, and beautifully written thriller - Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta

Mother, Come Home - Mother, Come Home by Paul Hornschemeier

The Girl Who is Spring - Feelings: A Story in Seasons by Manjit Thapp

“Don’t look at me like that’s my fault. I’m just telling you shit I know.” - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

An intimate story of friendship and its many forms, wrapped in a sci fi setting! - A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

So so happy that this group pushed me to finally finish this series! - The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

Hail Mary, full of Grace - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

I love this series so much. - The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman

A funny and thoughtful view of life from a wheelchair - Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig

“The Present Is Made Entirely of the Past” - Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn

Meet the Wildlife - Surviving the Wild: Star the Elephant by Remy Lai; Surviving the Wild: Rainbow the Koala by Remy Lai

No ifs ands or butts about it, I like to toot my own horn and say I like these science books! - Battle of the Butts: The Science Behind Animal Behinds by Jocelyn Rish; Does It Fart? A Kid's Guide to the Gas Animals Pass by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti

“What is grief, if not love persevering?” - The Art of Reassembly: A Memoir of Early Mother Loss and Aftergrief by Peg Conway

Deliverance – James Dickey (1970) - Deliverance by James Dickey

East Versus West - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

Neil Gaiman is My Chesterson - The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman

A five star trilogy. - Fool's Fate (The Tawny Man, #3) by Robin Hobb

It’s history, it’s the Little Mermaid, it’s fantastic! - Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen

“A tender, lovingly crafted book about growth, longing, grief, and renewal that I want to read over and over again” (quote from Carey Pietsch) - The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O'Neill

Revisting the the Biting Off More than One Can Chew Trilogy (duology) - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss; Wide Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

The Great War and Modern Memory – Paul Fussell (1975) - The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell

Mayor From the Machine - Ex Machina, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, et al.

Esteban and Tristan went into this nightmare and came out with more than they bargained for - The Nightmare Brigade #1: The Case of the Girl from Deja Vu by Frank Thillez

Ride ’em cowgirl… or whatever you say to someone who rides English style - Horse Trouble by Kristin Varner

The best thriller I’ve read this year - They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

“This sort of thing happens more and more as I age out of ‘attractive and unattached’ territory and into ‘destined to die a spinster’ territory.“ - The Life Revamp by Kris Ripper

A talking cat that only says ‘Treats.’ - The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

“I could never afford to look past survival, especially not for anything as insanely expensive as happiness, and I don’t believe in it anyway.” - The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2) by Naomi Novik

Nixonland – Rick Perlstein (2008) - Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

Life in Africa, But Probably Not at All What You Are Thinking Of - A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Did not expect to love a book about economics and baseball but here we are - Moneyball by Michael Lewis

New York City in the 70s man. You just had to be there - Just Kids by Patti Smith

Perfect armchair traveling - Literary Places by Sarah Baxter

The devil went down to Moscow - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

My Entrypoint for Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga - The Mountains of Mourning by Vorkosigan Saga

“There isn’t much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.” - The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4; Wax and Wayne, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

If you thought they couldn’t reboot a book, you were wrong! - Super Powereds: Year One by Drew Hayes

What if you could blame everything bad on someone else? - Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

The book I recommend to everyone, especially teachers - Real by Carol Cujec and Peyton Goddard

Just a wholesome good time. And chickens. - Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake

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