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5 Star Reviews

If you think things are bad now… try living 2000 years ago - Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas

“The tricky thing about giving opinions is that sometimes they cost you more than you wanted to spend.” - The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

Don’t Nix this one from your to read pile. #obviouspun - The Nix by Nathan Hill

Baby’s First Romance Novel! - Dreaming of You (The Gamblers of Craven's, #2) by Lisa Kleypas

Maybe save this one for 2021. - Pandemic by Sonia Shah

Another five star review for this wonderful graphic memoir. - Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Reducing to poverty people born for better things - Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling

Station Eleven - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

YA “Remixed” Pride and Prejudice - Pride by Ibi Zoboi

An excellent adaptation of a classic novel - Kindred by Octavia Butler

My father has sent a telegram to the War Office. - The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend; The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole by Sue Townsend

Housing Is a Human Right - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Scenes From a Memory - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Leaving it all on the field - The Terrorists by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

“The lights will come back on someday…and then we’ll all finally get to go home.” - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Two years into a twenty-three year prison-sentence, on a day pushing 100 degrees, Ronnie Jones had his first visitor. - Dopesick by Beth Macy

Get Your Notebook Out for This One - High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard

The Gift of The Gifts of Imperfection - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

Mesmerizing, magical, terrifying - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Dark and quirky fairytales - What is not yours is not yours by Helen Oyeyemi

An American Treasure - Becoming by Michelle Obama

Ain’t No Love In the Heart of the City - Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley

Because language has suffered enough… - Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson

These two people just genuinely like each other so much. - Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1) by Talia Hibbert

Great writing makes this live up to the hype - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Time for some magitech - False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

You can find her in the group of beautiful thugs and too fast girls congregating on the corner and humming the latest rag… - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Sadaiya Hartman

Fred’s Big Feelings and how they shaped us - Fred's Big Feelings: The Life and Legacy of Mister Rogers by Laura Renauld

Slow Burn - Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

Thursday January 1st Bank Holiday in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend

Who Can Truly Know Her When There Are No Others Of Her Kind? - The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathon Snipes

A Story I Should Have Learned In History - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

They danced by the light of the moon - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

Cows On Strike - Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin (Illustrator)

If you liked Tiger King… - The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

Just because it’s good doesn’t mean I’m keeping it. - The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

A Quick Thought about Tomie dePaola -

Delicious Froth - The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer

When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

What It Is to Be Human - Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

Round the Seasons we go - Sing a Season Song by Jane Yolen

May the world know her name - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Other American Dream - American (And the art of getting over it) by Luke Healy

An ode to punctuation, or erotica for grammar geeks - Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston

“This disease has magnified all our mistakes.” - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

We Love You…Well, Some of Us Do - We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge

In the Dark grabbed me and never let go - In the Dark by Loreth Anne White

I need this band to be real now - Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Maybe a Perfect Book? - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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