A cute premise but ultimately a forgettable book - Trouble in Mudbug by Jana Deleon
Begin at the end - The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
Cool Premise, but a So-So Execution - All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban
Somebody had to do it. - Byrne by Anthony Burgess
This Country Girl will stay that way after reading about these City Girls - The City Girls by Aki
Big brooding vampires in a series not for me - Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
Something Was Amiss - Coming Home by Tetiana Trofusha
When the word story is better than the graphic version - The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life, Vol. 2 (manga) by Guru Mizoguchi, Usata Nonhara, Ox
I found myself talking back to the audiobook - Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Great mystery and setting hampered by repetition - In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White
A great series goes out with a whimper - The King of Crows by Libba Bray
Sometimes a book is just meh - Cronin's Key by N.R. Walker; Cronin's Key II by N.R. Walker; Cronin's Key III by N.R. Walker; Kennard's Story by N.R. Walker
What Mighty Fools These Red Sox Be! - Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker
Alternative Title: The Privilege of Being Idle - How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
I wouldn’t be sad if she stayed lost - Lost by Joy Fielding
Pulp Fiction - The Serialist by David Gordon
King Midas Must Fail - Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
This Feeling of Numbness is Highly Relatable but Not The Best Reading Experience - The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour. - Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
This was a hot, sloppy mess. - The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1) by Nora Sakavic
She’s no Stephanie Plum - Full Scoop by Janet Evanovitch
Nostalgia isn’t helping this one - Slumber Party by Christopher Pike
Round, like a circle in a spiral… - The Circle by Dave Eggers
So close and yet so far… - I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
He was an angry man, and an ugly man, and he was tall, and he was pacing. - All this Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
I Feel Like the Unlucky One for Picking This Up - The Lucky One by Lori Rader-Day
One day in my young youth at high summer, lolling with my lovely companions upon a haystack, I found a needle. - The Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
I have a pact with myself not to think about money in the morning. - Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Libris Mediocris - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
I’ve always bristled at it…. - Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves. - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Where did my reading time go? - The Book of Ballads and Sagas by Charles Vess
“Write everything down.” - I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
Everything was a mess, especially in the dark. - Barn Blind by Jane Smiley; You Shall Know Them by Vercours
Step away from the crystals - Tangled Expectations by Cathy Asselin
The Charles Lindbergh farmhouse glowed with bright, orangish lights. - Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
A Modern Mistake – Millenneagram Misses the Mark - Millenneagram by Hannah Paasch
Started with my Curiosity, but Somewhere Got Lost Along the Way - The First Bad Man by Miranda July
Here’s to you, Mrs. Mazid-Stillman - The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger
Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of a bloke trying to get down a mountain with his legs smashed - The Ogre: Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of its first ascent by Doug Scott
Books for kids, better left read by kids - Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne; Dolphins at Daybreak by Mary Pope Osborne; Ghost Town at Sundown by Mary Pope Osborne; Tonight on the Titanic by Mary Pope Osborne
The Yucky One - The Lucky One by Caroline Overington
While the sisters of the Our Lady of the Impossible Constellations argued themselves in circles, the Reverend Mother sat silently in her chair… - Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
Less Bite Than I Imagined - Dracula by Bram Stoker
Of course I had read Wuthering Heights. - Heathcliff Redux by Lilly Tuck
There’s a Good YA Novel in Here Somewhere… - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
She ain’t no Buffy - Poesy the Monster Slayer by Cory Doctorow
Why don’t you find yourself a new wife, Pops? - Audition by Ryu Murakami
“Not Even Camping Is Like Camping Anymore - What Burns by Dale Peck