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3 Star Reviews

Snow Days - Snowy Farm by Calvin Shaw; One Snowy Morning by Kevin Tseng

This should really be titled The Secret History of Wonder Woman’s Creators. - The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

I wish I may…. - The Wish Tree by Kyo Maclear

Not in the way of the ancient greeks, but like a human loves a dog, or a robot loves a human, or occasionally, the way a gorilla loves a kitty - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

A whole lot of Christie short stories - The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie; Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie; Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

Breakfast Tacos and Three Legged Dogs - Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge

If You Mixed The Andromeda Strain and Pacific Rim, You’d Get This - Cold Storage by David Koepp

Fizzy, Fizzle, Fizz - One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin

Kids ask the darnedest things about decomposing bodies - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty

One Night Stand Fail - A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau

“We never lose those whose stories remain with us.” - Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society by Judy Christie, Lisa Wingate

The Force Needs Five More Minutes - Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn

Entertaining enough, but disappointing - Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

TFW you’ve been to Hell and back - Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

Welcome to the funhouse - Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

When Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her. - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

Coming Summer 2020 to a Halloween near you - Frankenstein Doesn't Wear Earmuffs by John Loren

Due mid-April 2020 a new celebrity offering - Escape Goat by Ann Patchett

She got to the parking lot earlier than usual. - Out by Natsuo Kirino

Good Omens: I Finally Read It - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

A ghost story-thriller combo - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

It Started Off Well … - The Collector's Apprentice by B.A. Shapiro

Oh, Look. Intelligent, Attractive Romance Novel Protagonists Are Insecure About Their Obvious Mutual Feelings. - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Published in 1964 and still going strong - Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats

Based on THAT Baby Shark…but you might be surprised - Baby Shark: Baby Shark and the Balloons by Pinkfong

“Kindness becomes a miracle.” - White Bird: a Wonder Story by R.J. Palacio

“There’s no hierarchy of pain. Suffering shouldn’t be ranked, because pain is not a contest.” - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

Not a Moriarty Gem, but Fun Nonetheless - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

Eastern Promises - The Blood-Red Dream by Michael Collins (Dennis Lynds)

It was a long drive and Eve cried most of the way home, because the big day hadn’t gone the way that she’d hoped… - Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta

Travel the World with Nothing But Hand Luggage - Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

3:2:1 Cooking and Baking is all about the Ratios - Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman

Fluffy Young Adult Romance and Fun - Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

“You’ll probably find one of those, ‘I like art’-type girls” - A Paris All Your Own by Eleanor Brown

Autistic people are still recognizably human, yo. - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

A Memoir of a Hong Kong Childhood - Golden Boy: A Memoir of a Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth

Knives out - Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations by Arnold Van De Laar

The Slowest Thriller Ever Written - A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine

I really need half stars on this one. - Sadie by Courtney Summers

Where In The World is… Julie Andrews? - Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews

“Well,” the bookstore manager said, “it’s Valentine’s Day.” - Life Sentences by Laura Lippmann

It’s Basically a Hallmark Movie…and I Was OK with That - Small Town Rumors by Carolyn Brown

Band-Aids Don’t Fix Bullet Holes, and Delusions Don’t Fix Dysfunctional Startups - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

“We learn as we get older to appreciate the people we love for who they are, and for how they love us.” - It's Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) by Nora McInerny

Lau writes characters you care about – and that’s a really good thing. - A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year (Holidays with the Wongs #3) by Jackie Lau

Prairie Home Companion Meets This American Life - The Year of Living Virtuously Weekends Off: A Meditation on the Search for Meaning in an Ordinary Life by Teresa Jordan

“A whale’s graveyard on the whole is not a good place to stomp around on” - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

It’s freezing–an extraordinary 0 degrees Fahrenheit–and it’s snowing, and in the language that is no longer mine, the snow is qanik - Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg

Finding your color - Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall

Fewer gifts than expected - The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey

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