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5 Star Reviews

Where’d You Go Bernadette – What took me so long?? - Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

A Mr. Darcy With Heat - Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

It’s Written in the Stars - Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke

“Everything that disappears / Disappears as if returning somewhere.” - Life on Mars: Poems by Tracy K. Smith

The Kind Worth Killing – A Thriller Worth Reading - The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

More From The “Books Exposing Violent Sexism” YA Subgenre - Sadie by Courtney Summers

Do Not Weigh Too Nicely the Perils of War - History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

“If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?” - No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling

She was my other half when I had not realized I was incomplete. - A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

I liked it, I really liked it - In Pieces by Sally Field

“She used to be the hunter, and now she was the prey.” - The Huntress by Kate Quinn

Prospero Atwood - Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart! - I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

A boy and a penguin - Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

Great Bookend for The Guns of August - Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

The not so naked truth - The Chinese Emperor’s New Clothes by Ying Chang Compestine

Five Stars, But Not a Favorite - Maybe This Time by Jill Mansell

Do Not Suffer a Witch to Live - The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

Marriage, Convent, or Freedom? - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

This review does not do this book justice. I should have written OMG THIS IS AMAZING a thousand and two times - Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson

Anger and Hate Poured Onto the Page - The Crow-Special Edition by James O'Barr

Fresh Perspective - All Systems Red: The Muderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

It really is, y’all - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman

Books about books - Otto the Book Bear by Katie Cleminson; A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston

A long time ago a man wrote music …. - Because by Mo Willems

Ugly but incredible - Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr

I hope your bacon burns. - Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Following Three Women on Their 30th, 40th, and 50th Birthdays - The Year That Everything Changed by Cathy Kelly

Full Circle - The Last Place by Laura Lippman

Maybe if I write a poem to a tree it’ll write back and give me pointers on my poetry….. - Poetree by Shauna Lavoy Reynolds

My favorite potter on reread - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Read this when you’re ready to Kondo your phone - Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

Good Omens meets NPR - Miracle Workers by Simon Rich

“Unfairness is a far more natural state in the world than fairness.” - Us Against You (Björnstad #2) by Fredrik Backman

Tug If You Need Anything - Gmorning, Gnight! Little Pep Talk for Me & You by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonny Sun (illustrator)

There are a lot of reasons… - Becoming by Michelle Obama

Beautiful - Kuessipan by Naomi Fontaine

Let me sit heavy in thy soul - Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías

I guess Gaiman already took Trigger Warning as a title… - In Shock by Rana Awdish

Zombie - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Mom, red wagon and apple pie - Hungry Bunny by Claudia Rueda

“And in a way I have always thought that words are alive a little, for they can whisper sweet nothings and roar dragon flame with equal efficiency.” - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

Fantastic Fantasy Fights - Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

The Situation is a lot more nuanced than that… - The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions: Take Control of Borderline Personality Disorder with DBT by Cedar R. Koons

Her husband’s secret could destroy multiple families AND This one will be their last anniversary - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty; The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

Very readable despite being a difficult topic - American Overdose by Chris McGreal

“My personal motto has always been if you’ve already dug yourself a hole too deep to climb out of, you may as well keep digging.” - Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry

An Effervescent Romance - The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker

“Because a goddess’s job isn’t to be good. It’s to have compelling stories lyre players can tell about her at the court of kings and princes.” - My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un) Popular Culture by Guy Branum

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