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3 Star Reviews

Interesting But Not Personal Enough - Alex and Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene Pepperberg

Lord of the World - Pascali's Island by Barry Unsworth

Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter, and contemplating a sin - The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett

Nuns and Prostitutes - Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen; A Time to Scatter Stones by Lawrence Block

I Don’t Not Like You - The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel

“Some things are jest too big to fergive.” - Raging Star by Moira Young

So, what happened to the goat? - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

The Dark is Rising, Books I-III - Over Sea, Under The Stone by Susan Cooper; The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper; Greenwitch by Susan Cooper

Olive, Again (Again) -

Nice Little Encyclopedia of Trivia - The Book of London Place Names by Caroline Taggart

I Should Have Liked It More - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

YES I CAN HEAR YOU CLEM FANDANGO - Toast on Toast by Steven Toast

The shortest (or almost shortest) title anyone will review - Ye by Guilherme Petreca

The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers. - The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

I’m not sleepy…. - The Yawns Are Coming! by Christopher Eliopoulos

What to read if you want an exhaustive look at the end of the Eisner era at Disney - DisneyWar by James B. Stewart

A book to experience, but you are not always glad you did. - Man-Eaters Volume 1 by Chelsea Cain

Concluding the series by marrying off the last sister - Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas

Unaccompanied Minors, side of Nazis - The Adventurous Four by Enid Blyton

If a man walks in dressed like a hick and walking around as if he owned the place, he’s a spaceman. - Double Star by Robert Heinlein

And they lived Happily Ever After. The End. - Prince and Knight by Daniel Haack

They call her the Angel of Death - Rebel Heart by Moira Young

Not enough panels to cover the possibilities - The Steel Prince: Night of Knives by V.E. Schwab, Budi Setiawan

Fun series, but not sure how far I’ll go into it. - The Stonekeeper's Curse (Amulet #2) by Kazu Kibuish

Adapting to Graphic Novel puts a new spin on things - The Lost Hero: Graphic Novel by Rick Riordan

Rolling with my homies - How to Vex a Vampire by Alice Winters

Ode to the Idiot Box - I Like to Watch: Arguing my Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum

There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name. - Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

My home town was just a village of six hundred or so… - If It Bleeds by Stephen King; Rat by Stephen King; Mr Harrigan's Phone by Stephen King; The Life of Chuck by Stephen King

I first met Pauline Delos at one of those substantial parties Earl Janoth like to give every two or three months… - The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing

The Killers - All The Flowers Are Dying by Lawrence Block

- Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen

Side Story that Works - RWBY After the Fall by E.C. Meyers, Kerry Shawcross, Miles Luna

Annie with Blonde Curls - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

“The world could go on after our destruction.” - Accident: A Day's News by Christa Wolf

When Joe Starling was ten years old, his father’s bank foreclosed on a fieldstone mansion which was by then a depressing ruin standing by itself in the middle of a fourteen-section cattle pasture. - Keep the Change by Thomas McGuane; "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace; Night-Flight by Antoine St Exupery; Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

In the Middle of the Adventure - Starbreaker by Amanda Bouchet

Read How to Build a Girl Instead - How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

You’ll want to know about his mother, she being crucial to the Kid’s beginnings. - The Kid by Ron Hansen

A Lovely Light Vacation Romance with a Content Warning - Island Affair by Priscilla Oliveras

“A man without rights in this world is not freed from his responsibilities.” - Amnesty by Aravind Adiga

A Sweet, Cozy Mystery - Seed No Evil by Kate Collins

Samantha’s hand were still red from the cold, the skin over her knuckles taut and dry. - Ark by Veronica Roth; Emergency Skin by NK Jemisin; Forward by Blake Crouch

Ambassador Sara Bair knew that when the captain of the Polk had invited her to the bridge to view the skip to the Danavar system, protocol strongly suggested that she turn down the invitation. - The Human Division by John Scalzi; Miniatures and other stories by John Scalzi

Wrong book, wrong time. - I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing by Kyria Abrahams

More Travel Guide Than Fun Facts - I Never Knew That About London by Christopher Winn

David Sedaris might finally be growing on me - Theft by Finding, Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris

Completely NSFW. And, seriously. WTF. - The Greatest Risk by Kristen Ashley

Delightfully dark (though perhaps not for the current situation?) - The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

Like Gosford Park by Way of Source Code, with a Zest of Black Mirror - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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