“I made promises to you that I’m not sure I can keep.” - Forever... by Judy Blume
“Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.” - Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands: Book 2 of the Emily Wilde Series: A Novel by Heather Fawcett
Witches and Nazis and Ghosts – Oh My - A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan
Bad-a$$ gals - The Girl Who Changed Little League: The True Story of Maria Pepe and Her Battle to Play Ball. by Maria Pepe with Jean L. S. Patrick; Sparrow Loves Reptiles by Murry Burgess and Tamisha Anthony
Celebrate Ramadan - Ramadan for Everyone: A Muslim Community Story by Aya Khalil
Late to the party, but still treats - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Mom and Me - The Brunch Shift by Adrienne Thurman
Sixty-six million years ago or Ya know the other day - One Cosmic Rock: The Story of the Asteroid that Changed Our World by Julia Vasileva
Gnome for the holidays - Christmas Gnomes (Gnome for the Holidays) by Kelly Green and Lisa Alderson
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene don’t stop helping the bees, hunny! - Green Jolene and the Backyard Bees by Wendy Mass
“The case does look very black against you. Nevertheless, I accept your assurance.” - The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
The Kill Clause by Lisa Unger - The Kill Clause by Lisa Unger
Appreciating an attractive middle-aged woman is one of the great luxuries in life. - Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
“Love is sharing your popcorn.” —Charles Schultz - A Salwar Kameez for Ambika by Arti Pandey; Samina Goes to a Wedding: Celebrations from a Bangladeshi Marriage by Farida Zaman
Interactive story with Simon and friends - Simon Turns Right by Nicole van Brummelen
Book images came from the interweb, but I like them so used them so thanks to who posted - My Heart Speaks Kriolu by Stefanie Foster Brown and Keisha Morris; Piccolo by Dan Yaccarino
Not as Good as Hyperbole and a Half - Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
In time for Halloween 2026 - Scritch! Scratch!: An Itchy, Witchy Halloween Tale by Teri Sloat
What stars are made of - The Curious Life of Cecilia Payne: Discovering the Stuff of Stars by Laura Alary
Decent Mystery - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
Atmospheric, but Not Much Else - Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio
Science augmenting the human body - Replaceable You by Mary Roach
Golden Girls with Feet of Clay - The It Girls by Caroline Young
Skirts Just Look So Good on Us! - Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
Fish Fingers - Gyo by Junji Ito
Don’t Call Me Shirley - Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
We’re all mad here - Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
A little light on answers for my preferences - The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott
To tell their stories - Home Is a Door We Carry by Constantin Satüpo
Origin story for human civilization - The Children of the Sun: An Inca Legend by Micaela Chirif
Big Brother is watching Part One - George Orwell's 1984: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell and Matyas Namai
A little faerie magic and a lot about real world sustainable gardening practices - Shroom for Improvement (Mythical Mishaps #1) by Jemma Croft
Forty Years Into the Future - Future Boy by Michael J. Fox
“The possibility of pain is where love stems from.” - The Humans by Matt Haig
Self help through self-compassion - Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
writing this review for bingo, and ended up in the typical place - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
You Know What They Say About Assumptions… - Lady Suspicious by Kate Archer; Convince Me, Viscount by Kate Archer
Semper Iocosus - Grit, Spit, and Never Quit by Rob Riggle
Talk About an Unreliable Narrator… - The Package by Sebastian Fitzek
It started out well - First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
“Gods and goddesses above, he was dangerous, but not for the reasons she’d once feared.” - Zomromcom by Olivia Dade
Once and Again by Rebecca Serle - Once and Again by Rebecca Serle
Arts and crafts as magic - The Moorwitch by Jessica Khoury
The Wheel (spinning) of Time - The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
Back to “Normal” Until the Next Major Life Change - Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire
Two writers on an island - Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
History, women, and books - The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes
Where everything is explained - Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The review I date myself by my pop culture references or Scooby Doo and the Not so Masked Villains - Toxic Summer by Derek Charm
When in a pinch use a banana - The Book of Candles: Eight Poems for Hanukkah by Laurel Snyder and Leanne Hatch