A personal memoir from former congressman and mayor of Compton - FROM COMPTON TO CONGRESS: His Grace For My Race (Volume Book 1) by Walter R. Tucker III and Martha Tucker
Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy. - Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
I made what can only have been a few rather idiotic observations about the bricks. - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Watered Down Pratchett Doing Columbo - Fifth Ward: First Watch by Dale Lucas
The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. - Ragnarok by AS Byatt
I’m sick of my own romanticism! - Henry and June by Anais Nin
Escaping is only half the battle - I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
Barbecue intrigue - Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Not the Thrill I Was Hoping For - The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney
I get why it made a lot of lists - Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Not today Satan! - In Good Faith (Joe Dillard Series Book 2) by Scott Pratt
Only the good die young. Evil seems to live forever. - The Family: the shocking true story of a notorious cult by Chris Johnston, Rosie Jones
Is She Just Going to Get a New Potential Love Interest Each Book? - Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
When the Title of the Book Doesn’t Relate to the Book Itself But to What the Reader Feels While Reading It - Punishment by Scott J. Holliday
There was something repulsive (and revealing) about talking on a cell phone while handling garbage. Why did anyone pretend human relationships had value? - Tampa by Alissa Nutting
Wrinkle in Time Time - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
A magical unresolution to refugee realities - Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
I wasn’t sure I wanted to review this one - The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
Adventures in magic - The Iron Trial; The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare
Not quite what I thought it would be - Nina Sadowsky by The Burial Society
Needs more vice and virtue - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
Evil Cupcakes meet Samuel Beckett - Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn
Napoleon’s Last Gambit - League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
Pretty fucked up - Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
Sci-Fi Short Stories hit and miss - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Apparently Anarchists Can’t Fight Without Their Leader? - Renegades by Marissa Meyer
Hated it the first time…kinda liked it the second… - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Everything Beth Ellen Said is Accurate, But I Still Enjoyed It - From Lukov With Love by Mariana Zapata
A solid freshman effort - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
The more I think about it, the worse this gets - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Wicked nuns and maybe-murders in a scenic setting - Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart
No matter how good a man is, there’s always some horse can pitch him. - The Red Pony; Cannery Row; The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
These are books you finish - In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Her real mom was probably a hippie - Half Past by Victoria Helen Stone
Some Guidance On Where to Go in My New Country - 52 Great British Weekends by Annabelle Thrope
Satirical Dark Humor - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
If you like sociopaths and unreliable narrators, then have I got a book for you! - The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
Am I missing something? - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Outdated, but easy to see why it’s popular. - Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Not Bad as a Background Soundtrack to Age of Empires II - Daughter of Empire by Lady Pamela Hicks
Becoming a Bright Young Thing - The Other Daughter by Lauren Willig
Stay Out of the Woods! - In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
“A lot of people want their first kiss to be special. I just wanted mine to be during this lifetime…” - We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story by Josh Sundquist
I Wanted an Out of Body Experience while Reading This Book - Behind Hey Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Riches and Wonders - The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
I am the walrus - The Dude and The Zen Master by Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman
A Little Lost in Translation - The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada
“A man becomes the creature of his uniform.” - Men's Style: The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress by Russell Smith
This book reads like a waltz. - The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.” - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle