“The problem is that Scientology is a system that makes it nearly impossible for you to think for yourself. “ - Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill and Lisa Pulitzer
“It’s so much easier to accept your feminine role in this world if you don’t struggle.” - Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill
Kitfeather Book Club Part 1 - Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
A small book on authors and friendship - Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard
When God Gets Lost in Translation - The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner
The Least Thriller, Thriller - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
A Whole Bunch of Truman Capote - The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, and Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Cozy Cotswolds - Agatha Raisin Mysteries, Books 1-5 by MC Beaton
Clones in Space - Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
Fangirl Down, Eleanor & Park to Go (Eventually) - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Eh. - The Dresden Files: Wild Card, The Dresden Files: Ghoul Goblin by Jim Butcher, Carlos Gomez, Mark Powers, Joe Cooper
Who Guards the Guardians (they do, of course) - Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka
A well written disappointment - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Little House on the Prairie meets the Oregon trail - Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
The blurbs over-blurbed it. - The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
An interesting book about books that move us. - The Things That Matter by Edward Mendelsohn
A Classic Game, if not a Classic Mystery - A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh
I Swoop in Like an Ethically Diverse Knight - Spider-Man and Deadpool Vol 1: Isn't It Bromantic by Joe Kelly, Ed McGuiness
The movie with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is better - Mr and Mr Smith by HelenKay Dimon
Lies, amnesia, missing persons and the revolutionary war - The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn
It’s true that they don’t make good romantic comedies anymore - Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman
Activism 101 - Becoming a Citizen Activist by Nick Licata
Comes in threes - Marrow Island by Alexis M Smith
Concluding an odd space trilogy with some home-cooked sexism - That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
A more repetitive entry in the series. - The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
More C.S. Lewis in space! - Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis’s weird space allegory, unpacked - Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Grammar(s) of God - The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner
Less fun than I remembered as a kid. - Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
A surprising and interesting story - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Waffles and Ice Cream for Breakfast - Wild Ride by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer
I read this book in one sitting - My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
Along Comes a Spider - Black Widow Vols 1 & 2, Finely Woven Thread and Tightly Tangled Web by Nathan Edmondson, Phil Noto
Slices of Life - The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino
Still couldn’t stop the words from pouring out. - The Great Passage by Shion Miura
Introducing Joker(TM) Hot Topic - Batman: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion
The Game Within the Game After the Game - Game 7, 1986 by Ron Darling
The World Moves Differently in the Middle of the Night - After Dark by Haruki Murakami
A Knight Like No Other - The Last Knight by Candice Proctor
Feed me, Seymour; feed me. - Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee
Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together - The Angry Therapist: A No BS Guide to Finding and Living Your Own Truth by John Kim
Heinlein’s Starship Troopers Meets Kafka’s The Trial Meets Heller’s Catch-22 - Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
Guys and Dolls - The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
Much Ado About Harry - A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles
Margaret Atwood and a little Annie Proulx - After the Apocalypse by Maureen McHugh
Another short novel by Connie Willis - Uncharted Territory by Connie Willis
A fantasy romance with a librarian heroine - The Pages of the Mind by Jeffe Kennedy
Two Quick Kids Books - How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
Odd collection of stories from a writer I can’t quite figure out. - What I Didn't See: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler
The girl in the bubble and the boy in black - Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon