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3 Star Reviews

A love letter to video games - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

David Mitchell is slightly grumpy about things - Thinking about it only makes it worse by David Mitchell

A sweet little book about walking - Walk: The Path to a More Mindful Life by Sholto Radford

A collection of minor disappointments. - The Dragonbone Chair, The Japanese Lover, Legend, Lovecraft Country by Tad Williams, Isabel Allende, David Gemmell, Matt Ruff

End of CBR10 panic post!!! - Only the Rain, Dead Even by Randall Silvis, Brad Meltzer

Shocking that 19th century men didn’t like this novel! - The Awakening by Kate Chopin

What is Better than Mommy and Daddy Love? - My Mommy Medicine by various

Ending the year on a rather mediocre note - The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

Two more books that will tie up your day with reading - Making a Friend and Amy is Famous. by Tammi Sauer and Barbara Bottner

That sounds far-fetched - My Dog Laughs by Rachel Isadora

“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action. Do it or don’t do it.” - The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

Shoulder Shrug – Into the Water - Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Put down the Google. All the answers you’re looking for are in this book. - Does It Fart? The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti

When the Ghosts Come Ashore and every place else - When the Ghosts Come Ashore by Jacqui Germain

“Conflicted” would have been a more accurate title - Educated by Tara Westover

…sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

What if you threw an apocalypse and no one came? Aw-kward. - Ragnarok Unwound by Kristin Jacques

Beautiful Writing Throughout, but the Last Quarter or So Left Me Unsatisfied - The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

Your Roman holiday - Magic Tree House Vacation Under the Volcano #13 by Mary Pope Osborne

Sam Sax….Is where it is at? Or not…..Take your pick…. - Bury It by Sam Sax

3 swift sleighs, 4 lobster rolls, 8 skaters carving, and a blue jay in a spruce tree! - The Twelve Days of Christmas in New England by Toni Buzzeo

He doesn’t want to move to Florida - Little Santa by Jon Agee

Christmas Spirit? We got it right here! - I Got the Christmas Spirit by Connie Schofield-Morrison

I saw Santa be a Grumpy Bear? - Santa Bruce (Mother Bruce Series) by Ryan T. Higgins

I do this to myself, eyes wide open - Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

What was the sense in love if all those you cared for were taken away? - The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen Trilogy #1) by Signe Pike

The story deserves a better book - Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

This was America. No One was Lost in America - The Hike by Drew Magary

“I can never remember things I didn’t understand in the first place.” - The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Transforming the Mundane to the Magical - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

She’s fought giants, clobbered dragons, now she’s gotta churn that butter? - Monsters Beware! by Jorge Aguirre

An Entertaining Mess - White Jazz by James Ellroy

How do you read a book after seeing the movie? - Snow White and the Huntsman by Lily Blake

It is not the light element alone that does the healing - Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnston

One part Scream + one part Anna and the French Kiss = There’s Someone Inside Your House. - There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

We are never meeting…. - In Real Life by Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang

I have happy feels - Is That You, Eleanor Sue? by Tricia Tusa

I mean, I don’t want to bust out the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ again, but I guess I just did. - What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

The foolish think them wise and the wise think them foolish. - Cold Mountain (Graphic Novel): The Legend of Han Shan and Shih Te, the Original Dharma Bums by Sean Michael Wilson

Vampire, PI - Already Dead by Charlie Huston

We know where the Dragon’s Maw is, where is Paw? - Scales & Scoundrels Volume 1: Into the Dragon’s Maw by Sebastian Girner

Crazy, Rich, Crazy Rich - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Detective Novel from Morocco, kind of a mixed bag - Whitefly: A Novel by Abdelilah Hamdouchi

Bit Scattered, Not As Helpful As It Could’ve Been - Work Like a Woman by Mary Portas

War On Drugs - The Mexican Tree Duck by James Crumley

When you blend in and stand out at the same time - Smudge by Mahogany L. Browne

Cute cooking manga - Kitchen Princess: Vol. 1 by Natsumi Ando (manga), Miyuki Kobayashi (story)

Spent the Whole Book Unsure What to Make of It - Incubation by Laura DiSilverio

Russian Poetry, Heartbreak and Politics - The Bedbug and Selected Poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Family Matters - New Hope For The Dead by Charles Willeford

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