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5 Star Reviews

Spoiler: white people are unspeakably awful to Native Americans (Not a spoiler) - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

A primer in immigration and the understanding of other: a second look at The Namesake - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

“I’m basically your resident fat Slytherin Rory Gilmore.” - Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it…fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf – your book, your romanced autobiography. - The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

“All things are reflections of other things.” - The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman

Our Days are Numbered, but not the feelings You’ll get after reading Hilborn - Our Numbered Days by Neil Hilborn

A novel of peculiar incidents and unruly dissidents. - Competence by Gail Carriger

Oh, the humanity! - Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Heredity and its Tangles - She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer

A Murder Mystery and a Family History - Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film by Alexandra Zapruder

A perfect suspense novel. - The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

Utopian ideas in a dystopian space - The Queen of the Tearling (series) by Erika Johansen

Murderbot strikes again, is even more loveable. - Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) by Martha Wells

And in this corner, wearing poisonous fangs….. - Who Would Win: Komodo Dragons vs King Cobras? by Jerry Pallotta

Well, someone was living her dream of a manners-free life. - A Duke by Default (Reluctant Royals #2) by Alyssa Cole

Backlog #CBRBingo - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

All good things must come to an end - Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes

A Simple and Concise Exploration of Writing and the Man Behind the Words - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Every time I laugh I know that I am laughing into the darkness - The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah

Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel adventure awaits! - Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel by Mariah Marsden

Jarrett’s Family - Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka

Lucky 13 and Heroes are still fun - Corpies by Drew Hayes

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine - Obscura by Joe Hart

A gripping time-travel slave narrative - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Everyone should read this book. Especially maybe your mom. - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Something IS Okay….and this is it! - Nothing is Okay by Rachel Wiley

In this story, I’m the girl no one is waiting for - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Every book club should read this book! - A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski

Unreliable narrators are my favorite! - The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn

The Best Podcast Ever Gets a Book - The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Griffin McElroy, and Carey Pietsch

A book that grabs your heart from the start and barely lets go! - The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland

Prince – A Musical Genius - Dig if you will the Picture by Ben Greenman

Murder with Political Consequences in Steampunky World Equals Cutest Romance Story Ever - Witchmark by C.L. Polk

From Football field to the Art Gallery - Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football field to the Art Gallery by Sandra Neil Wallace

There are monsters in the sea - Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people - Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston

A Bit Like the Last Six Minutes of Six Feet Under - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

If I had been a man, I may have turned to a life of crime. But I looked like an off-duty model. It was too easy to let things come easy and go nowhere - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

A warm and lovely book that took me by surprise - Anybody out there? by Marian Keyes

“Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.“ - There There by Tommy Orange

Baby Panda Chews Bamboo and steals your Heart - Baby Panda Chews Bamboo by Ben Richmond and Angelo Soto-Centeno

The black bat night approached and enfolded her in its wings - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Classic Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

A little too late for CBR book club - Kindred by Octavia Butler

Flynn: more like Gone Girl than Dark Places…which is good. - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong - Maskerade by Terry Pratchett

Muscle and Blood and Skin and Bones - Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

Take the World by Storm - Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli by Kyo Maclear

Happiness is a warm gun - Mistborn Era 2: Wax and Wayne Series by Brandon Sanderson

Silly ole Bear - Christopher Robin: A Boy, A Bear, A Balloon by Brittany Rubiano

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