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3 Star Reviews

With Friends like These… - The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter

Crime and Criminals - Recoil by Jim Thompson

This one is for thinking, not for fun - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

A missed opportunity in a creepy, engaging story - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Potato, The People, and The State - Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato by Rebecca Earle

Gift Time! - Go to Sleep (I Miss You): Cartoons from the Fog of New Parenthood by Lucy Knisley; Little Book of Kindness by Francesco Pirrone

Unexpected Wrap-Up to the Trilogy - Cage by Lilja Sigurðardóttir

…but you’re bringing me down. - New Yorked by Rob Hart

Hopefully It’s Almost Over - The Tyrant's Tomb (Trials of Apollo 4) by Rick Riordan

I’ll never get bored of reading of Troy - The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley

They were supposed to stay at the beach a week, but neither of them had the heart for it and they decided to come back early. - The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Hank counted the stack of money. - A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes

In the middle of a desolate Wednesday afternoon in the last sweltering days of May, a handful of mourners were gathered were gathered in the church dedicated to St. Jude Thaddeus in Mobile, Alabama. - The Elementals by Michael McDowell

Scooby-Dooby-Cthulhu - Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

Imagine being stuck in space with HAL, a zombie-virus, and your very recently ex-partner - Illuminae (Illuminae Files 1) by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

Maybe It’s the Timing - The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (Vol. 3) by Usata Nonhara, Ox (illustrator)

People needing People who are People, too - The World Needs More Purple Pepole by Kristen Bell; You Matter by Christian Robinson

From Shrimp Sniffing to French Kissing - dibs by Allison Martine

Come one, come all to the Picture Book Ball - You Be Mommy by Karla Clark; I’m Sticking with You by Smriti Prasadam-Halls; An Alphabet of Hugs by Emily Snape’

Coriolanus release the fistful of cabbage into the pot of boiling water and swore that one day it would never pass his lips again. - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The shadows flickered on the walls to his left and right, just inside the edges of his vision, like shapes stepping quickly back into invisible doorways. - They Shall Have Stars by James Blish

Meet My New Life Partner – This Chocolate Cake - InstantPot Miracle Vegetarian Cookbook: More Than 100 Easy Meatless Meals for Your Favorite Kitchen Device by Urvashi Pitre

Counselor Jen Starts Things for Once - Lumberjanes Jackalope Springs Eternal (vol.12) by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Ayme Sotuyo

Content Warning: Some triggering subjects and Grammar ranting ahead - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

…the carefree scoundrel and the sensitive spinster… - The Lady Travelers Guide to Scoundrels and Other Gentlemen by Victoria Alexander

Claudia and the Story of Boys Will be Boys - Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls by Ann M. Martin

It is only unnatural in the sense that there are human beings who can do this sort of thing to other human beings. - Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabar and Anna Waterhouse

The Last Last Dance - When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback by Michael Leahy

Better than the others, but still not a book I loved - A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole

A slightly imperfect suit - Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

As different as pea soup and pudding, but go together like PB&J - Cookie and Broccoli: Ready for School by Bob McMahon

No Olives, Please - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Dragons in the Sky - Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Dreamy but Derivative (also CANNONBALL!) - And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges by Amber Sparks

Field Hockey+ Varsity Blues + Dazed and Confused + Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - We Are the Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian

I Still Don’t Quite Get It - British Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Tony Wright

Pausing to build up some tension - Drrrr!! vol. 9 (light novel) by Ryohgo Narita

Victor Frankenstein asks Reddit: AITA? - Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nice Little Anthology of Our Search For Guidance - Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed by Jessica Weisberg

Soon it would be too hot. - The Drowned World by JG Ballard

A love letter to a farm - The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm by Hilarie Burton Morgan

The heat is on - From Scratch by Allen Salkin

The Baby-sitters club. - Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M Martin

I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest. - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Captain MacWhirr, of the steamer Nan-Shan, had a physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances, was the exact counterpart of his mind - Typhoon by Joseph Conrad; The Children of the Sea by Joseph Conrad

More story than fits the format but exciting nonetheless - Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince vol. 2 - Night of Knives by V.E. Schwab (author), Budi Setiawan (artist)

Making me grateful to be locked down… - Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King

A Solid Chicken Cookbook. - Winner, Winner! Chicken Dinner: 50 Winning Ways to Cook it Up by Stacie Billis

The Gore Surprised Me, but It Shouldn’t Have - House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

“Across the gulf of space … intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.” - The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Martian Menace by Eric Brown

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