Ugh, Dad, You’re Embarrassing Me… - The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford
Where do we really belong? - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
An affair to remember, I guess - The princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
From the outside, everything looks good - Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
Is butter a carb? - Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
I believe the woman behind the case study, but she’s not unimpeachable - Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey
Trauma, and the Trudging On Towards Healing - Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
I was all about it until I wasn’t - Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
What stereotype are you most afraid of confirming? - Whistling Vivaldi And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude M. Steele
Didn’t really give me the feels - When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Older, but still beautiful - After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman
The Worlds of David Ezra Stein - Hush, Little Bunny by David Ezra Stein; Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise by David Ezra Stein
Meg Ryan Rom-Com: I should have bought the Kindle edition (now $1.99!) - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Academic Fiction at it’s Best but also Worst - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Maybe one of those lesser Greek gods that lord over twigs or something. - Valley of the Gods by Alexandra Wolfe
Love of the Common People - Faithful Place by Tana French
Evil AIs are in my wheelhouse - Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Just call me cranky. Hi cranky, I’m dad. - The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death by Colson Whitehead
Fun story, bad editing - The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
Maybe the movie is better? - The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
Not so fast… - Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham
Life is a Multitude of Stories - Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
I’m just a girl living in captivity - The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
It wasn’t narcissism. And it wasn’t exactly an aesthetic. - Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Lucas and Russian Spies - Hidden Prey by John Sandford
Reminded me of “If Beale Street Could Talk” Though I Didn’t Like the Main Characters - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
I’ve had a few things of surpassing interest forced on me. - Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
Slightly-better-than-average M/M romance - Fired Up by Riley Hart
I definitely could have done without the Ted Bundy interviews - Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer by David Reichert
“Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?” - Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie by Anthony Del Col
Pro-tip: Don’t wait ten years to read an ARC. - Flesh and Fire (Vineart War, #1) by Laura Anne Gilman
“I may know myself better now than I ever have before, but ask me again in a year or two.” - Would You Rather? A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney
Pa said it would not matter if they got into the hay. - Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Men Are Terrible and Cannot Be Trusted - Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
It’s not actually a bookshop - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Into the Woods to Grandmother’s House and Home Before Dark - The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
“Nothing … was private: only secret, only silent. We ate our tears.” - The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
Pride & Prejudice retelling set in Pakistan (which doesn’t quite work) - Unmarriageable: A Novel by Soniah Kamal
The devil you know - Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah Maclean
“My father was dying and I was pregnant. Both struck me as impossibly unreal.” - Brother, I'm dying by Edwidge Danticat
Existential Dread Served With Your Crime Fiction - The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
People are always going on about how scared they are of ghosts. - Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
My parents belonged to the lost generation - Kafka in Bronteland by Tamar Yellin
Just Take What You Want - The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
Relatively good - It’s All Relative by A.J. Jacobs
No Nonsense Fairy Tales - Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede; Searching for Dragons by Patricia Wrede; Calling on Dragons by Patricia Wrede; Talking to Dragons by Patricia Wrede
If the Gentleman had been Expected, perhaps she would have had time to apply her remaining eye and the top of her skull. - An Unexpected Gentleman by Alissa Johnson
“It turns out that grief isn’t something that can be hurried. You can’t move through it faster than it moves through you.” - Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home by Amy Dickinson
Empathy Served With a Slice of Pie - all that she can see by Carrie Hope Fletcher
A glimpse into the mind of a 12th century religious thinker - Hildegard of Bingen: Mystical Writings by Hildegard of Bingen, Fiona Bowie (Editor), Oliver Davies (Editor)