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3 Star Reviews

Sugary sweet summer read - The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

Strapping on the impossible - Truman by Jean Reidy

Good heavens! There are two groovy turtles in the house….. or wait…. is there? - Turtle and Tortoise are NOT Friends, by Mike Reiss

He was somewhere in his forties, with a face that was both handsome and unexceptional - Kudos by Rachel Cusk

A debut novel with pomegranates on the cover; obviously, I bought it. - The Girl from the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan

Twice (or More) in a Lifetime - Recursion by Blake Crouch

A long, long whodunnit - Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.” - Red Rising by Pierce Brown

I might struggle and freeze, but if I have to crawl to reach the truth, I will. - The Bewildered Bride by Vanessa Riley

Um…Hockey? - Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League by "Cleo Birdwell" (Don DeLillo)

Revenge Killing or Just Another White Guy Killing His Family as A Result of Economic Despair? - The Dry by Jane Harper

The True Story of Supergirl’s Nia Nal Actress - Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

A Snarky but Serious Look at Pop Culture - Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Silver in more ways than one - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

God He knows we need men more and more in the Game. - Kim by Rudyard Kipling

They called this a school. - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

A single story told as though it’s the only one - Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WIlder

Book Drags… - Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George

Ted Mobsy Is Not a Hero - Dumped, Actually by Nick Spalding

Old school vibes in modern YA - A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry

The Way The Music Died - Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring

Finally getting around to a series I’ve had on my TBR for ten years. #CBRBingo – Reading the TBR - Goblin Quest (Jig the Goblin, #1) by Jim C. Hines

A “Reluctant” Beginning - A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole; Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole

Civil War Noir - De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage

Representation is important for the women who don’t want kids, as well (Cannonball!) - Not Another Family Wedding by Jackie Lau

But seriously, why don’t kids come with a manual? - Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years―No Time-outs Needed by Jamie Glowacki

In which the illustrations were not up to par for this Type 4. - The Enneagram Made Easy by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele

An Homage to an Homage to Twin Peaks? - The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh

Sometimes it feels like people try too hard - Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle by Laura Purdie Salas, Claudine Gevry; My Footprints by Bao Phi, Basia Tran; To Catch an Elephant by Vanessa Westgate

Familiar and Strange - The Giver by Lois Lowry; Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry; Messenger by Lois Lowry; Son by Lois Lowry

In which I get my husband to co-review this bit of fluff with me - Rumpole and the Reign of Terror by John Mortimer

Galactic Millieu Epic – The Golden Torc - The Golden Torc by Julian May

On the news tonight the new President said there’s no reason for anyone to worry about the situation. He didn’t say which situation. - Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, ‘the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned. - House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata

It Is What It Is - All That I Have by Castle Freeman Jr.

Lust and Wander (Rainbow Flag) - Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs

Stop! Thief! That’s MY Chalk Drawing! - The Case of the Missing Chalk Drawings by Richard Byrne

Greed Is In - Dear Money by Martha McPhee

Interesting ideas but needed more space to grow - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Far and Away - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

Well, it didn’t scare me off MY wedding - Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen

And so the journey to finding oneself begins - A Girl Called Echo V01 Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette

A cute YA book with mystery and romance - Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett

Meal - Meal by Blue Delliquanti, Soleil Ho

Only Enjoyed Mowgli and Rikki Tikki Tavi Stories - The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kiplin

Officially the weirdest book i have read in the past 8 years. - The Obsoletes by Simion Mills

Infamy, infamy! They’ve all got it infamy! - Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire by Terry Deary

Provocative, uneven collection of essays (Bingo!) - The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist by Richard P. Feynman

I’m not sure Alyssa Cole’s contemporaries are my kind of thing - A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole

Tartan Noir - Laidlaw by William McIlvanney

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