A Quick Little Walk on the Dark Side - The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 by Louise Penny (editor)
Pure junk food but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun - The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll
They’re not bad, they just are - Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo; Seige and Storm by Leigh Bardugo; Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
Lyra is finally back - The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
Ariadne could tell the time by its closeness, three o’clock. - Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle
She would not wish anyone violently dead but, since it had happened, one might as well make the most of it. - A Mind to Murder by PD James
Longer is not better - Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
What would Jesus do? - Good News Bible (New Testament) by God/ Anonymous
I have no idea what the h*ck I just read - Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
The ups, downs, and forgetability of family - A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Gotta get Busy busy busy - Olive & Pekoe: In Four Short Walks by Jacky Davis; Lizzy McTizzy and the Busy Dizzy Day by Sarah Weeks; Woke Baby by Theodore Taylor III
All around the wall, there were tusks. - Speedboat by Renata Adler
I am a bloodsucker. - Seasons of Sacred Lust by Kazuko Shairashi
Auf Wiedersehen, Old Friend - Metropolis by Philip Kerr
Genetics is a science full of gods, Mr. Sanchez. - The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
A Little Less Sparkle the Second Time Around - The Ancient Magus Bride The Silver Yarn by Kore Yamazaki et al.
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.” - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Kill Your UltraTelevision - X-Men Gold - Mojo Worldwide (Volume 3) by Marc Guggenheim & Cullen Bunn
Ehhh… - The One Who's Not the One by Keris Stainton
Life-changing concept, underwhelming book. - The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking
Too safe? - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
It would be nice to have the meat, too. Mice, mice, and more mice–he was fed up with them. - The Slynx by Tatiana Tolstaya
I have no idea what I was expecting from this book, but it for sure wasn’t this wackiness. - The Spellman Files (The Spellmans, #1) by Lisa Lutz
Am I cooling on Scalzi? - The Consuming Fire: Vol. 2 of The Interdependency duology by John Scalzi
“And I may have lost my mind but I believe that I rule my world” - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
My Kind of Town, Chicago is… - In A Pig's Eye by Robert Campbell
Can You Keep a Secret – Not a secret, but not for me - Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
I keep wanting these books to be Dataclysm and it’s not their fault they aren’t. - Uncharted by Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel
Passivity is a great virtue, sometimes. - The Diary of a Good Neighbour by Doris Lessing; If the Old Could... by Doris Lessing
Paper like that could make you a writer, if anything could. - The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell
It often seems to me that’s all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again. - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
To live there was a badge of inferiority. - Catseye by Andre Norton
A mixed bag, but in the end it won me over - Believe Me: a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens by Eddie Izzard
Or, more realistically, you can think of life as an interruption of an eternity of personal nonexistence… - Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich; The Tent by Margaret Atwood; Tiny Crimes by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
What is Love? - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Flow was Up and Down and the Beginning Was Boring - Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody. - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Davenport’s Family is in Danger Again - Stormy Prey by John Sandford
Interesting premise, less interesting execution - Vox by Christina Dalcher
When the Fresh Prince is inspiration for a Fresh Princess - The Fresh Princess, by Denene Millner
If you don’t understand women, don’t make one your main character. - Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
An interesting, new (to me) paranormal series - Skinwalker by Faith Hunter
Rendezvous with a classic SF novel - Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
I can’t believe how many of these things I’ve said to my kids - Because I Said So! : The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids by Ken Jennings
It’s a crab! It’s a submarine! It’s SUPER NARWHAL! - Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt (A Narwhal and Jelly Book #2 by Ben Clanton
Puts the “young” in Young Adult - Girls With Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young
Sundown is near, but the Passover plate is not here! - Pippa’s Passover Plate by Vivian Kirkfield
The man, the myth, the legend - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Goth aliens call them ‘stop-stop dancers’ instead of go-go dancers - Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Eating By Yourself Can Be Cool - Solo: A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One by Anita Lo