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5 Star Reviews

This is factual, not just farting (but who doesn’t enjoy a good fart?) - Jop and Blip Wanna Know V01: Can You Hear a Penguin Fart on Mars? And Other Excellent Questions by Jim Benton

What Do I Have in Common With a Neurosurgeon? - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The People Don’t Get Their Way - A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Proof that prequels can absolutely work if you have the right story. - Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0) by Angie Thomas

The Voices of the Ignored - The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History, Immigrants, women, & African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle by Margaret S. Creighton

Straight Man – Richard Russo (1997) - Straight Man by Richard Russo

Hold on to your butts (and your obelisks) - The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth #2) by N.K. Jemisin

Stop thinking and start creating! - Making Comics by Lynda Barry

Run, don’t walk, to read this trilogy! - The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, 1) by N.K. Jemisin

I Would Pay Money For a Book About the Family Ruffin - You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

Tom Robbins re-reads #1: Skinny Legs and All - Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins

The Chosen Ones- OMG yes read it - The Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

The One- Soon to be on Netflix (per the overly excited front page of the book) - The One by John Marrs

“Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things.” - Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

A small book about big ideas. - How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

More than just a pandemic novel - The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

We All Live in a Broken Submarine - The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket

Let’s Talk About Sex - Bonk by Mary Roach

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.” - Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

A labyrinth…. an ocean…. references to Narnia…. everything I’ve ever wanted - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Memory and trauma and loss and family - Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey

Skippy Dies – Paul Murray (2010) - Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

Why We Can’t Wait – Martin Luther King Jr (1964) - Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr

We Were Eight Years in Power – Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017) - We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fanning the Spark - The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

The Perfect Book for a Book Lover - Bibliophile by Jane Mount

Anything Worth Doing is Worth Doing Partially - How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help by KC Davis

Feminism is for everybody. Like, literally. - Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

Troy Story - Troy: The Siege of Troy Retold by Stephen Fry

“Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation/warfare.” - Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

I’m sorry, I can review fanfiction? Sign me up for a triple cannonball… - Owl Was Well by fencer_x

A Place That Had No Memories, Nothing - The Decay Of The Angel (The Sea of Fertility Book 4) by Yukio Mishima

If you have a chronic illness, you’ll see yourself in this story. If you don’t, you need to read it anyway. - Unseen by Jacinta Parsons

Dodger Blues - Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum

I laughed, I cried, I will re-read. - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen (2001) - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Just another New York boarding school. In the woods. Helps to be an artistic Wiccan. - Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman

One Dreamboat coming up! - My Creepy Valentine by Arthur Howard

I know it is 298 days until Halloween but this is a year-round Treat! - The Ghosts Went Floating by Kim Norman

Don’t Judge Books by their Covers and Don’t Miss these! - Snow Birds by Kirsten Hall; The Snow Fox by Rosemary Shojaie

So much fun. So fucked up. Can I say that? - The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette

The perfect book for a new year - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Fairyland is calling - Letters from Fairyland by Charles van Sandwyk

“There is nothing quite like the anger of someone very powerful who has been thwarted by someone who was supposed to be weak.” - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Precious guidance for parenting our precious boys - From Boys to Men by Maggie Dent

Our pets’ HEADS are falling off! - Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

Reading this Series is a Slippery Slope of Delight - The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket

“What if you have a child, and that child wishes with every bone in her body that she’d never been born?” - Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami

On the bonnie banks of the Charles River - Writers & Lovers by Lily King

What a way to start 2021 - My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

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