Bear paws and pause - Bear by Himself by Geoffrey Hayes
Rooting out the truth - I Am Not Boring: The True-Life Story of a Log by Lena Podesta
Parents! Whatcha gunna do? - The Schlemiel Kids Save the Moon by Audrey Barbakoff
Grateful for Soccer - Morgan Plays Soccer by Anne Rockwell; Look and Be Grateful by Tomie dePaola
Friends stick together - Sloth & Moth: A Better-Together Friendship by Helen Taylor
Monsters and nightmares - Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Why Does the Husband Always Suck? - We Used to Live Here by Daniel Hurst
When someone is that calm in a crisis, either they don’t know what’s happening, or you don’t. - The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley
Cozy Spooky Sexy Fun - The Ex Hex (Graves Glen #1) by Erin Sterling
“The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors” - Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me (Anthony’s Story) by Julia Quinn
“Oh, of course. Mediocre men receiving positions of power they haven’t earned because of their birthrights. How against the grain.” - Accomplice to the Villain (Assistant and the Villain, 3) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
The movie scared me so bad it took 20 years to read the book. - Ring by Koji Suzuki
The novel doesn’t quite live up to the magic of the setting - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Hmmm - You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh
A Few Twists But Not My Favourite - A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage by Asia Mackay
when an author gets too excited by world building - Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
Witches But in September - A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
“Travelling Through Thick Woods With a Troop of Goblins Is Not Unlike a Nature Hike With a Group of Grumpy Toddlers With Weapons” - Nine Goblins by T Kingfisher
So easy even Humans can get them - Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld
A Bit of Illogical Fun - The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
“What we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.” - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Life of a Wife Guy - A Wilder Shore by Camille Peri
Need a little more plot in my fiction - Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Scared Sexy Short Stories - Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood; Falling by Christina Lauren; Spicy Little Curses by J.T. Geissinger; Space Vampire by Ruby Dixon; Beautiful Nightmare by Katee Robert; All My Boyfriends are Monsters by Kimberly Lemming
Meat(ball) Cute - Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver
Insubstantial Fluff - A Fellowship of Librarians & Dragons by J. Penner
Putting ideas about the past to the test - Dinner with King Tut by Sam Kean
“Why do you want my voice?” “Because I’m a sassy sea witch and I’m gonna keep it in a nautilus necklace, then use it to steal your man from right under your nose” - Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole
Purple for the Spooky Science - The Glass Scientists vol. 1 by S. H. Cotucino
Accidentally Lost, Found, Returned - The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond by Amy Sparkes
I will love her and pet her and squeeze her and call her Georgie. - Ice Planet Barbarians (Special Edition) by Ruby Dixon
Evil Geniuses Come in All Ages - Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
I’m still not going camping, but I’ll read about it - The Best Worst Camp Out Ever by Joe Cepeda
Her voice - Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open: Poems by Diane Seuss
Some cheer - The Old Sleigh by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey
Priest with Holy tattoos and brandish machine guns in the face of demons - Covenant V02 by LySandra Vuong
Not sure I am going to bother with book 3 - The Blighted Stars by Megan E O’Keefe; The Fractured Dark by Megan E O’Keefe
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
“The only thing every love story really has in common is that it’s worth it.” - Not in My Book by Katie Holt
Experience of sadness - Sad Book by Michael Rosen
One tough Cookie - Rainbow Cookies by Lesléa Newman
We can still talk about summer books - Summer Solstice Wish by Kate Allen Fox and Elisa Paganelli
A Spooky Read for Spooky Season - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Not Quite What I Was Expecting - Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
“She wanted to read stories that had been written with care, by a writer who’d wrestled with words, who might have sworn at the computer and procrastinated by cleaning the entire apartment and furiously dictated notes in the middle of the night” - Magically Generated by Jackie Lau
Welcome to my Two Books in One Review review - Thank You, School by Louise Borden; Finding My Wave by Alexandra Katona
Dance like your ancestors are watching - I Am a Bon Dancer by Brandi-Ann Uyemura
So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison - So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
Would have been better without the forced thriller/mystery angle - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Takes a “Characters Welcome” first approach - The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman