Like Don Hertzfeldt abstracted even further - Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge
Okay, you’re almost all villains. No ‘if’. - If We Were Villains by M L Rio
We’re all idiots - Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
A Stunning Queer Romance Debut - Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
Roll Call - Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
Better Use of Space - Feminist City by Leslie Kern
one last re-read of a book from 2021, which is a great sign - Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
“Learn what your city has forgotten. What men of power have forgotten time and time again, throughout history – that there is always, always something mightier.” - Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett
A Book that Deserves Much More Buzz than it Received - A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti
Harry Potter and Who Thought Up These Challenges for Kids? - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and I Want to Take These Classes - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
One of the true highlights of my reading life, and now I can share it with my son! - Bone by Jeff Smith
The History of Flies and Mosquitos: Final Book of the Year - Historia de las moscas y de los mosquitos: y su influencia en el devenir de la humanidad by Xavier Sistach
“Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it’s actually worth a lot of discomfort.” - So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
A review mostly in quotes because I *cannot* ever adequately review a Terry Pratchett. - Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31) by Terry Pratchett
Two KJ Charles books I loved - Subtle Blood by KJ Charles ; The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles
Finally an HEA (sort of) for Rachel Morgan - The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison
“One human female, slightly rumpled and creased from a long time in storage. Expert pilot, trash at basically everything else.” - Cytonic (Skyward, #3) by Brandon Sanderson
In six weeks alone, Supercollider was responsible for 468 lifeyears lost. - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Suicide mission- drama and heroics - Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher; The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher
Another Ilona Andrews series has stolen my heart - Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews; White Hot by Ilona Andrews; Wildfire by Ilona Andrews; Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews
A white whale that’s worth reading, years later - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Magical love in a small town - Witch Please (Fix It Witches #1) by Ann Aguirre
Adventures in ghost hunting - Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega
I would like to join the Tea Dragon Society - The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O'Neill
Old friends - Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett; Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett; Jingo by Terry Pratchett
Worth the hype! - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
I’m a slacker (once again), but esmemoria was not! -
Rosenberg, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom….Brando, “The King and I” and “The Catcher in the Rye” - Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the USS Pueblo by Jack Cheevers
Wait for it, wait for it. . . - Good Behavior by Molly Keane
A Sugar Spun Fantasy - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Hating Game, in three reviews - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
The Mend is Nigh - Severance by Ling Ma
I’m finally done with the Wheel of Time….. - A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
The Downside of Genius - The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Pierce absolutely sticks the landing - Shatterglass by Tamora Pierce
“we all got thick skin, but we still gotta let people in.” - Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Gain – Richard Powers (1998) - Gain by Richard Powers
Columbine - Columbine by Dave Cullen
Before Harry Potter, There was Diana Wynne Jones - The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Vol. I Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones ; The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Vol I The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
A little bowl, a big message - A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story by Caren Stelson
Oh wait, have you heard this one before? - The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye
“Love and Fear. The most destructive forces on Earth.” - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Bodily Harm - A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
My Struggle Part five (Some Rain Must Fall) – Karl Ove Knausgard (2010) - My Struggle Part Five by Karl Ove Knausgard
“Thanks to their neural plasticity, their ability to shift and change their connections with other cells, you and I walk the earth with the ability to be flexible in our thinking, adaptable to our environment, and capable of choosing who and how we want to be in the world. Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday.” - My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
Paranoia! Paranoia! Everybody’s Coming to Get Me! - Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America by William Jacobson
“Mum spent a lot of time in my formative years gently reminding me that people don’t think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they’re all busy worrying what people are thinking about them.” - A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik; The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
The East German Harry Potter for goth kids - Krabat by Otfried Preußler
Soothe Yourself - Dubliners by James Joyce