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5 Star Reviews

How a scientist intent on helping feed his country starved in a gulag - The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov by Peter Pringle

My, my. A body does get around. - A Light in August by William Faulkner

A Comic’s Guide to Mastectomies - Dangerous Boobies: Breaking Up With My Time Bomb Breasts by Caitlin Brodnick

My first LOVE of the year - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

A Life - Stoner by John Williams

I AM THE WORST! - Accident! by Andrea Tsurumi

Favorite book of this series. Loved it. - A Woman Entangled (Blackshear Family, #3) by Cecilia Grant

Epic translation of The Odyssey - The Odyssey by Homer

“The House of Fiction Has Many Windows, But Only Two or Three Doors.” - How Fiction Works by James Wood

He believed himself thus at the centre of life - Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. - A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

We’re Going to Need More Wine (And a Bucket to Hold My Tears from Laughing and Crying) - We're Going To Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

But what if the pony’s trick is really cool? - X by Chuck Klosterman

You Don’t Know From Gritty - L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy

Bad Blood - No Turn Unstoned by Diana Rigg

Life is a Cabaret, old Chum - The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

Sci-fi to make you cry (in a nice way) - A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Make a Wish, Take a Chance, Remake the World - I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

This is YA dystopia done right - Panther in the Hive by Olivia A Cole

More like cutting my heart…. - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #2 - Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

A wry self-awareness missing from so many takedowns of generations of youth. - The Group by Mary McCarthy

Now that’s how you reclaim a narrative - Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

General Ignorance Is Bliss - QI: The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

Flâneuse-ing - Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and London by Lauren Elkin

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #1 - Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism by David Kilcullen

Mice Skating Away with Your Heart - Mice Skating by Annie Silvestro

“It’s All in the Past, so Who Gives a Sh!t?” - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

“A book is born into a puddle of treacle; the brine of hostile criticism is only a memory.” - The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick

“This is not her conclusion. This is her verdict” – One of the very best short story writers I have ever read. - The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant

❤️🍲👠 - Hold Me by Courtney Milan

Kicking off CBR10 by re-reading a childhood favorite. - The Hork-Bajir Chronicles (Animorphs #22.5, Chronicles #2) by K.A. Applegate

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow. - The Wind through the Keyhole by Stephen King

I want to read this again and again. - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Learn from Women Who Dared - Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers

“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.” - Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

My first, last, and only - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

The Unofficial Guide to Universal Orlando 2017 - The Unofficial Guide to Universal Orlando 2017 by Seth Kubersky

It’s All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan - It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan by Tristan Donovan

Lip, Dip, Paint. Ending CBR9 with a Gift Exchange Review - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

My Brother’s Husband, Volume 1 - My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 by Gengoroh Tagame

All y’all talking about Rothfuss were right - The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Black girl poetic magic - Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing

Even Peacocks Have Their Uses - The High King’s Golden Tongue (Tales of the High Court Book 1) by Megan Derr

And a Rainbow New Year - Almost Midnight by Rainbow Rowell, Simini Blocker (Illustrator)

An oldie, but a goodie - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Tournament of Losers by Megan Derr - Tournament of Losers by Megan Derr

Just like Thanksgiving dinner, the sides are the best part! - Corpies by Drew Hayes

The snoring, the rain, and Mama’s hair that smells like bread. - The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

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  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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