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5 Star Reviews

I am Groot - Night Night, Groot by Brendan Deneed, Cale Atkinson

Use Your Weapon - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Well I, see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat - Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein

Second time reading, second time not adequately expressing feelings in review. - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Dark horse favorite YA ‘verse - Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #1,2) by Leigh Bardugo

Flirting over artifacts and forgeries - Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran

Children and War in Afghanistan - The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel by Deborah Ellis

Skillfully tackling serious issues in a YA graphic novel - Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

I really do have a thing for competent assholes … - Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews

Unruly Bodies - Hunger: A Memoir Of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

“If blood inside you is on the inside of someone else, you never want to see it outside of them.” - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

With a Voice Like That - What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan by Chris Barton and Ekua Homes

Nothing is Fishy with Something’s Fishy - Something’s Fishy by Kevin McCloskey

Tugs at your heart - Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely - The Power by Naomi Alderman

“What am I going to say if I end up standing in front of God the Father Almighty and He asks me to explain why I did it. That it was my job?” - The Green Mile by Stephen King

Everybody makes one another’s terrible mistakes - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

I Was Only 97% Certain That This Meeting Was a Trap. - Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Back to the future - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

“Welcome to real spy work. Mostly tedious, occasionally exhilarating.” - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The implacable horror of isolation - The Terror by Dan Simmons

The Greatest Generation - A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women who Desegregated America’s Schools by Rachel Devlin

Depression & Other Magic Tricks - Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim

At Least This Novel Reconfirms My Circe Tattoo Decision - Circe by Madeline Miller

I have additional rambling thoughts on Kindred - Kindred by Octavia Butler

Killer Lady! - Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating

Lies, love, and facing reality - Lies We Tell Ourseves by Robin Talley

A memoir that made me introspective - Hunger: A Memoir Of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Opal likes numbers. Numbers are consistent. You can count on them. But for Opal, certain numbers are good and others are bad. - There There by Tommy Orange

Stick Your Head in the Sand - The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World’s Coral Reefs: The Story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundatio by Kate Messner

You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

“Nobody is who you think they are at first glance. We need to see beyond the projections we cast onto each other. Each of us is so much grander, more nuanced, and more extraordinary than anybody thinks, including ourselves.” - The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story? - Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

There was no choice, really. Is there ever between the darkness and the light? You walk toward the smile rather than the frown. - New Boy by Tracy Chevalier

Chose my aim. Take one step and then the next. There had never been anything else. - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Tokyo Ghoul: Not your parents graphic novel! - Tokyo Ghoul Illustrations: Zakki by Sui Ishida

Thanks to the CBR Book Club - Kindred by Octavia Butler

Too easily the future of “school choice” - Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Zita the Spacegirl to the rescue. Sort of…… - Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

The Dance of the Violin - The Dance of the Violin by Kathy Stinson

I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I’ll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. - The Collected Stories of Breece D,J Pancake by Breece D,J Pancake

My favourite book of 2018 - Prairie Fires: The American Dream of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

50: Revisiting a haunting and beautiful dystopian novel - Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

45: The most important book I’ve read this year. - Mothers of Massive Resistance by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

41: Seasons come and go, but apparently, bad choices are forever. - Autumn by Ali Smith

39: Rebecca Solnit’s natural history is just as good as her feminist criticism. - A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

37: Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her before. - Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly

35: A beautifully depicted dystopia with religious leanings - The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

33: A heartfelt, deeply relevant YA novel - Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

30: An investigative glimpse at a beloved and endangered natural resource - The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

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