I still love Flavia, but I don’t know if that’s enough anymore. - The Grave is a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9) by Alan Bradley
“love takes you / where you need to go” - Invisible Strings by Jim Moore
Slight second album syndrome - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
Nothing here is real, nothing here is right. - The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
I’m afraid that once your heart’s involved, it all comes out in moron. - Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
Margaret Atwood gets weird, y’all - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Scientist Duke - The English Duke by Karen Ranney
No yeah it’s what you think it is - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
But Is It a Book I’ll Remember? - A Duke to Remember by Kelly Bowen
The human mind invents its Puss-in-Boots and its coaches that change into pumpkins at midnight because neither the believer nor the atheist is completely satisfied with appearances. - Days of Wrath by Andre Malraux
My break up letter to Janet Evanovich - Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton
Dirk Gently Is at It Again . . . Sort of - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Truth is More Important than Modesty - Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
Gambling to secure a future, winning a duke - My Once and Future Duke by Caroline Linden
The weirdest afterschool special I’ve never seen - Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
A Side Quest, If You Will - Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson
Tis a Disappointment - Hello Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
She Was Mostly Immensely Relieved to Think That Virtually Everything That Anybody Had Ever Told Her Was Wrong - Someone to Hold by Mary Balogh
Thoughtful content, less thoughtful structure - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
I’m a Poor Person, Get Me Out of Here! - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Naledi does not have time for knock off Nigerian email scams. - A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
There may be more melodrama here than I have the patience with - Fire Falling by Elise Kova
Librarian heroine with latent magical powers. Dark, broody sorcerer prince as the possible love interest. I can work with that. - Air Awakens by Elise Kova
Might Work, But I Probably Won’t Do It - Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career, Step by Step by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Would have liked a lot more Holmes in this one. - The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Didn’t like as much as Part One. - The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part Two by Michael Dante DiMartino
“I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, ‘I might be wrong.” - A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2) by Louise Penny
An interesting premise, a generic execution. - Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett
Alli Reviews “The Lonely Hearts Hotel” - The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
Well now that is some fucked up shit - Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
Army Chief of Staff Reading List #8 - The World America Made by Robert Kagan
Sally’s Ride - Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
Lemme get a hit of that eugenides - Fresh complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides
Oh, Lisa Kleypas, I keep hoping… - Hello Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
A Return Trip to the South of France and its Flower Fields - A Wish Upon Jasmine (La Vie en Roses #2) by Laura Florand
Would have been a lot more enjoyable if the heroine had gone to therapy at some point - Buns by Alice Clayton
I wish I had a sköldpadda of my very own. - Song of Susannah by Stephen King
I confess I’m addicted to stationery. . . - Adventures in Stationery by James Ward
“There’s not a choice…you just have to.” - Batman Vol. 1: I Am Gotham by Tom King
One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. - Henry and Cato by Iris Murdoch
Tartting up Rick Riordan and Castle - The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky
There’s a formula to it. A very simple formula! EVERYBODY’S A SUSPECT! - Final Girls by Riley Sager
Maybe Your Lovely Wife Should Have Written This Book Instead? - My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir by Mark Lukach
Do you know what broccoli is like to your body? It is like a hundred-dollar bill. When you eat it, you are paying yourself with health. Do you know what a cookie is like? It is Monopoly money! You’re giving your body fraudulent currency. - Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own. - The Wedding by Dorothy West
Patent Wars - The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Magic’s all balderdash and chicanery. I’m afraid we don’t know a bloody thing. Except I seem to be British, don’t I? - Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews
A Way Too Heavy and Analytical Take on A Light Sci-Fi Novel - We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis Taylor
A True Crime Book and a Husband’s Tribute - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
Liked it better the first time I read it - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle