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5 Star Reviews

Prepare to shift allegiances…and take a look in the mirror. - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

“The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)” - Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Please don’t be prophetic - The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver

Janet Murray predicted Netflix - Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet Murray

I can’t stay quiet about The Silent Patient - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaeledes

I do not now have the slightest understanding of the events which got us out of one big white house which we rented into another, bigger white house which we own, at least in part. - Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

Half agony, half hope, all swoon - Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev

Clothing Westeros - Game of Thrones: Costumes - The Official Book Seasons 1 - 8 by Michele Clapton

A foreigner, but not from another country. - Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

Want Chocolate? Get a Monkey. - No Monkeys, No Chocolate by Melissa Stewart

“I’m just wondering what the point is.” “Well, that’s the real question, isn’t it?” - I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

Magic and mystery at Yale University with a healthy sprinkling of ghosts - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

The broken images of Robert Graves - Selected Poems by Robert Graves

A book so good I may soon need an intervention if I’m ever to stop re-reading it - Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

It’s a sad and beautiful world - No Happy Endings by Nora McInerney

Pre-order a copy today, get your copy in March 2020 - Nesting by Henry Cole

When adventures are actually hard stuff and the characters are made all the better for it - European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss

Women Who Sing - Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis

Perry Mason fans out there? C’mon, I know you’re out there. Da da daaa, da DONT. - The Case of thr Buried Clock by Erlr Stanley Gardner

Education is more than just books. (But books sure help.) - Educated by Tara Westover

The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering. - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

American Ghost Stories - Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins

A memoir that will send shivers up your spine and possibly make you cry. - Out of the Forest by Gregory P. Smith

“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can’t carry on at all.” - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell; Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

The Beatles of Behavioral Economics - The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins; Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

First big find of 2020! - Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire

I think I loved it even more on a re-read - Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

The Trouble is This: I Will Not Sell My Loyalty or My Friendship - Thorn by Intisar Khanani

How do you know it will be any different? Because it has to be. - Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Beautiful prose and a beautiful take on an ancient tale - Circe by Madeline Miller

A Hundred Words for all the Ways a Black Boy Can Lie Awake at Night - How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones

Amid every adventure is also drudgery, lady adventures have a specific kind - The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

The incredible ending to one of the greatest modern speculative fiction stories - Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“So fine, if you insist. This is a witch hunt. We’re witches, and we’re hunting you.” - The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West

Grit - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

That Turkey Is Not Pining for the Fjords - Goya by Robert Hughes

The Most Comprehensive Writing Guide - Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway

Katie O’Neill continues to write charming, inclusive, all ages books - The Tea Dragon Festival by Katie O'Neill

There Are Always Two Sides to Every Story - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

You Deserve a Strawberry Garnish - A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day by Jackie Lau

Inspiring Powerful Women make a Great Read! - The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer by Caitlin Murray

Rejoice and Be Glad, Because Great is Your Reward in Heaven - Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Celeste Ng, I Stand Corrected - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

We built BrisVegas on rock and roll - Pig City by Andrew Stafford

A Modern Day Epic - Love Warrior: A Memoir by Glennon Doyle

Hyperion – a modern classic - Hyperion by Dan Simmons

“Rooting around in the presidential innards” - Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

“A shadow came over 42nd and Eighth Avenue. It completely covered the street for a split second.” - The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Garrett M. Graff

Vanished from the edge of the world - Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

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  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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