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5 Star Reviews

Genocide as Told Through Poems - An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo

Deeper Themes of a Classic Author - A Jane Austen Devotional by Steffany Woolsey

Pumpkins, Fall, Growing up, and Young Love or Why Fall is a Great Metaphor for Senior Year - Pumpkin Heads by Ranbow Rowell

Native American Science Fiction - The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Murder Mystery as a Family Study - The Lost Man by Jane Harper

The Start of Another Great Trilogy - The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy #1) by Rick Atkinson

One of my faves this year - Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News by Clint Watts

Even Very Good Things are Better IN SPAAACE! - Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Trilogy) by Tamsyn Muir

Should he climb such a thing? - Stories of your Life by Ted Chiang

Absolutely, Positively Not YA - Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga #4) by Pierce Brown; Dark Age (Red Rising Saga #5) by Pierce Brown

Trying desperately to get enough reviews for my double Cannonball - Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews; White Hot by Ilona Andrews; Wildfire by Ilona Andrews; Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews

Just how little were these women? - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Some Steinbeck Non-Fiction - Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck

“Even the wind…scattering you, because you are a girl, and because you are ash.” - She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey; Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom; Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

Coming of Age with Hurricanes and Ghosts and Jessie’s Girl - Joyland (Hard Case Crime) by Stephen King

You Can’t Hate Yourself Into Health - The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner

I’d Watch This - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg #1-3) by George R.R. Martin

Delicious Palestinian Recipes - Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan

Still the Best Reveal… - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Broken Harbor - Broken Harbor by Tana French

The rent eats first. - Evicted by Matthew Desmond

It’s Jolabokaflod! Thank you ellesfena and tiny_bookbot! -

Damn you, write faster! - Recursion by Blake Crouch

“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” - Brainstorm by Suzanne O'Sullivan

Merry Christmas, here’s a book about cancer. - Daughter of Family G by Ami McKay

Sometimes your mom does know best - The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

“From a purely physical standpoint she didn’t have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.” - The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium, #2) by Stieg Larsson

“If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.” - Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) by Ann Leckie

If I Never Met You - If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane

Everyone Needs Their Own Group of Corgis - Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

In which I non-review a favorite book. - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson

One of my favorite books I read in 2019. - Think of England by K.J. Charles

The contemporary voice worked for me - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

This is not a happy story, but hey- neither is The Little Mermaid.  - The Seas by Samantha Hunt

“Make no mistake. This is a planet of microbes. We are here at their pleasure. They don’t need us at all.” - The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

Christmas Cannonball!!! - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

For the cynics and realists… - Inspired by Rachel Held Evans

Marley was dead. - A Christmas Carol by Jim Dale

At the intersection of spirituality and creativity… - Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson

The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media,” I said, meaninglessly. - Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

L’Engle, I just wanna hug you. THANK. YOU. - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

“Fight because you know that in this life, you deserve safety, joy, and freedom. Fight because it is your life.” - Know My Name by Chanel Miller

A city whose fate can change as suddenly as the monsoon rain - Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

The Monsters are the Heroes - Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung by Nina MacLaughlin

In the end, the courage of women can’t be stamped out - Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

A world where only cats tell the truth! - Saga Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples; Saga Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples; Saga Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

The Importance Of Hearing an Author Read His Own Words - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

I Didn’t Know Jane Austen Was So Religious - The Prayers of Jane Austen by Jane Austen

“i’m pretty sure you have s t a r d u s t running through those v e i n s. – women are some kind of magic.” - The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace

How are We Not Talking More About This? - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

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