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5 Star Reviews

The Most Grim Series That I Still Love - The Call by Peadar O'Guilin

Islandborn - Islandborn by Junot Diaz

Maya Lin - Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines by Jeanne Walker Harvey

Speak Out for Women’s Rights - A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights by Kate Hannigan

“That’s what parents do. They catch you before you fall. That’s what family is.” - Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

The End is the Beginning - Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

To love, honor and obey. . . - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Exactly what I bloodydamn well needed - Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

“I am actively choosing to be a consumer of someone else’s tragedy. So like any responsible consumer, I try to be careful in the choices I make. I read only the best: writers who are dogged, insightful, and humane.” - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by MIchelle McNamara

Enchanted and Spellbound, In the Silence They Lingered - Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand

“You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.” - Cordelia's Honor (Vorkosigan Saga Omnibus #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold

I was so much older then/I’m younger than that now - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Mitten Kittens, Sonic Hedgehog, and a Better Understanding of Genes - Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our genes work by Kat Arney

Love. A Scarf. New York, 9/11 and 1911. The biggest surprise? I loved it! - A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner

Family. - We are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. - The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

A little bit of Rear Window… - The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn

Ramblings of a Jo Nesbo fan. - Midnight Sun and Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbo

Tesseracts freak me out, guys - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Nemesis Games - Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

Young Love - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

There is No Life I Know to Compare with Pure Imagination - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

I Will Be Made a New Creature, One Bright Day - Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

If Tumblr had existed when this was published… - War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

What, if anything, is there that a novelist can say about his work that wouldn’t be better left to the critics? - The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison

Wait a minute…nice boys don’t kiss like that. - The Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas

Another 5-star review from this Expanse stan - Persepolis Rising (The Expanse #7) by James SA Corey

How come no one told me about the Wayward Children series ages ago?! - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

This is as much a self-portrait of an obsessive mind as it is a true crime book. - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

A book worth re-reading - She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

‘Good morning pretty lady, are you pregnant?’ - Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope by Wendy Holden

Always Mañana. Tomorrow. - Refugee by Alan Gratz

A reluctant superheroine - Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

“These are the frail, imperfect ways of ordinary human beings in the teeth of a great epidemic” - Three-Letter Plague: A young man’s Journey through a Great Epidemic by Jonny Steinberg

Real Friends. Who are they? - Real Friends by Shannon hale

I relate to this food - Sourdough by Robin Sloan

The pursuit of happiness - Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Context and Choices - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

I’ve seen the future, brother. It is murder. - Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter Vronsky

The best Ravenel yet - Hello Stranger by Lisa Kleypas

Betty Before she was X - Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz

Vote? What’s so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that. - A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava

Kindness - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

History is Storytelling - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Believe the Hype - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Between the World and Me…And Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates by Between the World and Me

“Being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.” - Bossypants by Tina Fey

WWII YA Drama Awesomeness - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Can I be friends with Tiffany Haddish plz? - The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

If you aren’t frustrated with the concept of nutrition in America, you aren’t paying attention. - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan

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