BOOM and BUST in Dublin - The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
I have as many emotions inside me as there are genres in this book. - Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) by Tamsyn Muir
“You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn’t, he sent men to come and take it away.” - Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Don’t Judge THIS Book by the Cover (seriously) - Beach Read by Emily Henry
Open Your Eyes and Then Open Them Again - The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
What intelligence means to a human, spider and octopus - Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
We’re the aliens, man - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Kindred – Octavia Butler (1979) - Kindred by Octavia Butler
Family, War and Making a Better Life for Your Kid - Saga book 3 by Brian K. Vaughan Fiona Staples
Be my friend, Rachel Bloom! Please! - I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
Animal Farm – George Orwell (1945) - Animal Farm by George Orwell
An Inside Look at the Nuremberg Trials - Nuremberg Diary by G.M. Gilbert
500 words on how I have nothing to say - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reacquainting myself with Armand Gamache – #16 - All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny
“…I hunt monsters. And I got a sword that sings.” - Ring Shout or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times by P. Djeli Clark
Fixing space with any available tool - The Unorthodox Engineers by Colin Kapp
What to do when your life’s philosophy fails you? - The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher R. Beha
The bow is the final straw. - Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S Choi
“With a return ticket, courage becomes an intellectual exercise.” - The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Sumptuously grotesque - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Mosquito Coast – Paul Theroux (1981) - The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.” - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors – Susan Sontag (1989) - Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag; AIDS and Its Metaphor by Susan Sontag
what happens to the torch-bearers, the candle holders, the vigil keepers? - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
A Little Birdie For The Soul - Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Practical Guidance for Novel Writers - Rock Your Writing by Cathy Yardley
Black Feminism Expressed - Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Harry Potter punches Loki in the face - On Punching Gods and Absentee Dads by Enigmaris
“you can play as a dog, a boot, or a trebuchet” - Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
My new obsession - The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
One of those books I kept taking breaks from because I didn’t want it to end - Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey
What’s the plural of apocalypse? - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Kidnappings and stock car racing and Miss Julia, oh my! - Miss Julia Takes Over by Ann B. Ross
“The whole place had the look of a picked-at-body. But damn! What a beautiful corpse.” - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Cuisine des Mémoires and other stories - How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
“I, Claudia Kincaid, want to be different when I go back. Like being a heroine is being different.” - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Koningsburg
God is Change - Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Sure: we’ll say they’re ‘kids’ books…. - a kids book about Disabilities by Kristine Napper; a kids book about Body Image by Rebecca Alexander; a kids book about Anxiety by Ross Szabo; a kids book about Racism by Jelani Memory; a kids book about Depression by Kileah McIlvain
Holy s***,” I breathed, “heckhounds.” - Grave Peril (Dresden Files #3) by Jim Butcher
How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past? - The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
Bondage - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander
I’ve run out of adjectives - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
What it means to be king - How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1) by Alyssa Cole
Everything you wanted to know about a Reno divorce in 1938 but were afraid to ask - Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson
Political intrigue is extra intriguing when everyone’s a necromancer - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Don’t check into room 712 at the Bellweather Hotel! - Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
They boldly went where no one had gone before - Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 by Paula M. Block, Terry J. Erdmann,
If You’re Sick of Reading About Our Current Disaster, Try This One. - Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
“By the smallest of actions one can restore some order in the world.” - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Don’t Stop the Music - Step It up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music by David Menconi