Disturbing parallels to modern-day society - The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
Maybe just nudge the puppy with your foot a little? - Wherever You Go, There They Are by Annabelle Gurwitch
A Spy in the Life - The Last Supper by Charles McCarry
My little friend was a strange mix of Flemish thrift and artistic fervour. - Double Sin by Agatha Christie
It was a silly show, all capering women and monkey-faced men. - The 39 Steps by John Buchan
My first review of the year! - Brooklynaire by Sarina Bowen
Professional Reading #1 - It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell & Tony Koltz
Where have I seen this plot before?!?! - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
“It’s concerning you both; for doesn’t it seem odd that Gowing’s always coming and Cummings’ always going?” - Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning - The Time Machine by HG Wells
And, almost as one, they murmured: “Yes.” - The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
To make matters worse, the women also dominated all the activity on the upper deck. - Voyage along the Horizon by Javier Marias
To remember a day would take a day. To remember a year would take a year - Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Who Published This Book Half-Finished? - Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children) by Seanan McGuire
But the Wind Goes Right Through You, It’s No Place for the Old - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Arrr, There be Pirates and Voodoo Here - On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
For my first read of 2019, I decide to learn EVERYTHING - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
“The first rule is don’t fall in love”…. guess what happens?? - How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
Coffee Reading Lite - The Monk of Mokha by David Eggers
It’s a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass. - Someone Could Get Hurt by Drew Magary
That’s how confident they are. No one would dare stand in front of our house and watch us, they think. - Looker by Laura Sims
“A soft heart only makes it easier for a knife to slip in.” - The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken
A Long and Complicated Read - A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Middle book syndrome? Or just me? - The Golem's Eye (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, #2) by Jonathan Stroud
Sex and Travel (Emphasis on the Sex) - Wanderlust by Elizabeth Eaves
It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed. - A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
White Feminism: A Novel - The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
CBR11 #1 – Salt by Nayyirah Waheed - Salt by Nayyirah Waheed
Fairy tale update with a Latinx spin - Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
Marry Groundhog Day With Clue and Quantum Leap…and then do weird stuff - The 7 and 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
THIS REVIEW: might not be a popular opinion. But it is mine after this reading of it. - When Sadness Is at Your Door by Eva Eland
Proudly Perfectly Peculiar - The Peculiar Possum by Tracey Hecht
We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. - The Benson Murder Case by SS Van Dine
Oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence - Tales from Shakespeare by Mary and Charles Lamb
What might happen if a fan got to live inside her favorite story. - The Fandom by Anna Day
Daughters of the Lake - Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb
Good, but wants more meat… - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Outlander meets Criminal Minds - A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain
High School Drama + Magic + Alabama + Hipsters - Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins
Home Improvement - Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
Maybe Don’t Bind Your Fate to First Hottie You Meet - Smoke & Summons (The Numina Series, Book 1) by Charlie N. Holmberg
Slow but steady wins the race… but not always? - The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny
A Severance Package at the End of the World - Severance by Ling Ma
Ending with a Zombie Killing Porn Star and a Priest in a Bar - Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey
He was a user of his own consciousness, but he did not have owner privileges - Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
So Jacob galloped over the fields of Essex, flopped in the mud, lost the hunt, and rode by himself eating sandwiches… - Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
A little too familiar - 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
A short little homage to Richard Matheson - Elevation by Stephen King
It is a truth universally acknowledged that I am a sucker for a decent Austen retelling. - Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge
This is my year of not apologising for reading romance - Highlander by Julia Sykes