I identified with this one so much I wrote the author a thank you letter! - Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil
A Warm Blanket of a YA Rom-Com. You’ve Got Mail 3000 - Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
As the Prophets Say, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Maman died today. - The Stranger by Albert Camus
Patsy sat by herself at the beginning of the evening, eating a Hershey bar. - Moving On by Larry McMurtry
I for one, welcome our new fungus overlords - Cold Storage by David Koepp
Tacoma calls, it’s waiting there to get rid of us all, when the big one comes better hope the car don’t stall. - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Where it faced the highway, the Sunburst was just another motel, but behind the main building sat a cluster of a half-dozen concrete cottages with with tiny rock garden. - The Color of Money by Walter Tevis
“What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.” - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Ms. Tartt, you did well with the latitude you were given. - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Fallout - Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich
“And, Really, I Was Fine, Fine, Fine.” - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Trees are the Best - The Overstory by Richard Powers
Anxiety and prejudice in Space - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kawal; The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kawal
An Updated Country House Mystery - The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
In the weeks before the English Department at Oberlin College was about to decide whether or not I would be granted tenure, I was haunted by dreams of running away–of disappearing–yes, even on dying. - Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
More than five letter words in the English language - The Keeper of Wild Words by Brooke Smith
“The truth can be seen. Directly. The question is, are you willing to accept what it tells you?” - The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel by The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel
Amen for the Good Book - The Vagina Bible by Dr. Jen Gunter
“Live fast. Die young. Bad girls do it well.” - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
“I don’t know what’s so scary about zombies. … ” said the author in her hit graphic novel - The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by Noelle Stevenson
The Sun Down Motel is a rollercoaster ride of nail-biting terror - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
A place to belong - A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
When my mother was angry with me, which was often, she said, “The Devil led us to the wrong crib.” - Why be Happy when you could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
“‘It’ll heal ugly.’ But most things do.” - Sadie by Courtney Summers
The past is not dead, the past is not even past. - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Gimme gimmie gimmie - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Another book-club-recommended-rip-your-heart-out read - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Slowly my two suitcases glided around on the carousel in the arrivals hall. - My Struggle Vol 4 by Karl Ove Knausgard
In an alternate world, chalk is the first line of defense against evil - The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
Never doubt Brandon Sanderson - The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
But I’m one of the good guys. - Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
“And yet he had learned to submerge that sense of horror, to disregard the outward appearance of it, to regard all life as brother life, to meet all things as people.” - Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
A Different Focus for WWII - Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
On one hand, this messiah gig is a b****. - The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
Like a bag of nacho cheese corn chips….. I’m sad when it ends. - Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
The early November street was dark though night had ended, but the wind, to the grocer’s surprise, already clawed. - The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
Re-read review of the first two books, and also more people still need to read this series so I can have someone to talk about it with!! - Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) by Ada Palmer; Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota, #2) by Ada Palmer
The most beautiful book about the end of the world you’ll ever read - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
“If you’re ever feeling poorly about yourself, about your lack of achievement, your utter inconsequentiality, your ridiculous little life lived in the shadows—take a moment and write some Internet reviews of other people’s work.” - A Load of Hooey by Bob Odenkirk
How fitting that I’m experiencing reviewing this book again… - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The dam’d blood burst, first through his nostrils, then pounded through the veins in his neck… - Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
You’re on the porch with the broom sweeping the same spot, getting the same sound–dry straw against dry leaf caught in the loose-dirt crevice of cement tiles. - Those Bones are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
A good and deserving sequel - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Are we sure this isn’t Breakers backstory? - The Institute by Stephen King
Humanizing a Goddess - Circe by Madeline Miller
“A sound can move anything if it’s strong enough.” - Song For a Whale by Lynne Kelly
“You did not see me — you did not look at me, and see me.” - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
I feel about as prepared as this 12-year-old - Disaster Days by Rebecca Behrens