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5 Star Reviews

Why Teachers Drink - Best in Class by Tim Clancy

“It was as if Boeing built one plane and, without doing a single flight test, told airline passengers, ‘Hop aboard.’” - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

Consider my Pot, Boiled - A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark; The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.” - A Heart in a Body in the World by Caletti, Deb

This Book Made Me Cry on the Bus - Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller

What Stands in a Storm - What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley by Kim Cross

The Son - The Son by Jo Nesbø

He gathered up his spoils and took them to the checkout. - Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

Power to Unruly Bodies - Hunger by Roxane Gay

Gonna ride til I can’t no more - The Lost Man by Jane Harper

Beloved by Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and America Ferrera - Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities. - Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

The truth is, men make terrible pigs - Circe by Madeline Miller

Inspiring a case of the midnight giggles - Calypso by David Sedaris

Feminism is the New F Word - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Freaking stellar debut novel - Tinfoil Crowns by Erin Jones

Once Upon a Time in Silesia - The Swedish Cavalier by Leo Perutz

My Best Friend’s Exorcism – A nostalgic and wild ride - My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

This series just keeps getting better - Tiamat's Wrath by James S. A. Corey

Coming to Realize that I Really Do Love Sports Stories - Fence, volume 1 by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad; Fence, volume 2 by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,” - Normal People by Sally Rooney

A long sigh - Normal People by Sally Rooney

A Fur Person must be adopted by catly humans, tactful, delicate, respectful, indulgent; these are fairly rare, though not as rare as might be supposed. - The Fur Person by May Sarton

“There could be love.” - The Giver (Graphic Novel) by Lowry, Lois; Russell, P. Craig

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Oh, how I sometimes yearn for the easy swing of a well-oiled novel! - The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov

“A small creature swallowed whole by a monster…” - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Next time you say you can’t, think of the hummingbird - Hummingbird by Nicola Davies

Lethal White (Cormoran Strike #4) - Lethal White (Cormoran Strike #4) by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling

I don’t even bother making resolutions any more.. - New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep (A Vintage Short Original) by Samantha Irby

Tim Kaine would totally wear white Rockports - Tim Kaine Is Your Nice Dad: a work of dad fiction by Sara Benincasa

Abnormally Good - Normal People by Sally Rooney

You would not call me a marrying man, Watson? - The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!” - Ophelia by Charlotte Gingras

Thanks, Book Club! - Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. - A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

Eat Your Vegetables! Also, Relax! - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan

Badass lesbian detectives ftw - The Dime by Kathleen Kent

The Elements of Style: The Sequel - On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser

Justice served with a side of pineapple. That’s what I’m here for. - Sunbolt by Intisar Khanani

Whew - 2666 by Roberto Bolano

In Dubious Battle - In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck

“Staying alive, as it turns out, is mostly common sense.” - Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek MD

Get out your drapes and rumba - Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots by Margarita Engle

At least that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. - The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis; The Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis; Prince Caspian by CS Lewis; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis; The Silver Chair by CS Lewis; The Last Battle by CS Lewis

Shades of grey in Afghanistan, where the truth is elusive - No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal

Get Out of My Head, Guy! - My Life as a Goddess, a memoir through (un)popular culture by Guy Branum

Sometimes I just feel the need to reread the story of Stanley - Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson

“A kid born in Flint will live fifteen years less than a kid born in a neighboring suburb. Imagine what fifteen years of life means.” - What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha

I Will Be Suprised If This Trilogy Does Not Become an Award Magnet - The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy Book 1) by Katherine Arden; The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy Book 2) by Katherine Arden; The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy Book 3) by Katherine Arden

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