“Every war is a war against the child.” - The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear
No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you’ll never see reflected what’s inside. - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Asian inspired urban fantasy series? Yes, please - Ebony Gate by Julia Vee
Dragons, Art and Noodles - A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim
What is a flop, anyway? - Box Office Poison by Tim Robey
B*Witched - The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Good, the Bad and the Horny - Apprentice to the Villain: A Novel by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
A pig needs a knife - Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
And now there’s a ghost cat, as if a dead body wasn’t enough. - Something Whiskered (A Cat in the Stacks Mystery #17) by Miranda James
Dependable, violent fun from Ilona Andrews - The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews
No Wings Needed, but Maybe a Better Editor? - We Need No Wings by Ann Dávila Cardinal
Round on the Ends, High in the Middle - Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
Refusing to conform to stereotypical gender norms on two different continents - My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende
A new spin on an old idea - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Unremarkable? Not anymore, Brian Reyes! - Unicorn Boy Volume One by Dave Roman
“Magic Is the First and Last Religion of the World. It Has the Power to Make Us Whole.” - Imajica by Clive Barker
1930s Cinema History - Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934 by Thomas Doherty
“People say, I’ll give anything. The universe listens. But the universe doesn’t listen when you say, Wait, not that.” - Long Live Evil: Time of Iron Book One by Sarah Rees Brennan
Size does matter - The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
Beyond Her Reach by Melinda Leigh - Beyond Her Reach by Melinda Leigh
Not much edge to the veg - The Edgy Veg by Candice Hutchings
“I’ll watch and I’ll wait. I’m seventeen, and I have a thousand brilliantly hued hazardous sunrises to spare.” - Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid
Talk to the mountain - I Am the Mountain by Steven Weinberg
“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.” - The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (translator)
The Local and the Yokel - A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley no.1) by Elizabeth George
Krampus kramps your naughty style - Tonight Is Krampus Night by Kyle Sullivan
You don’t want to be treated like family by THIS family - Cry Out Loud by Tara O’Connor
Saving Seprant Guardians, culture and the Earth - The Search for Gluscap (Adventures of the Pugulatmu’j) Volume 2 by Brandon Mitchell, Kielamel Sibal and Veronika Barinova
D&D by any other name will still be D&D - The Last Session Vol. 2: Rerolled by Jasmine Walls
Dance Dance Dance…. - Emma & Capucine, Volume 1 by Jérôme Hamon and Lena Sayaphoum
I Wanted to Like This - Olive by Emma Gannon
Sometimes a “Hallmark Movie” type of book is just what you need - The Collected Regrets of Clover: A Novel by Mikki Brammer
Question of Logistics - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen - Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold
Spending a little extra time with some characters I love. - Ghosts: The Button House Archives by Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond
A Less Than Gentle Nun - The Dawn of Yangchen by F. C. Yee; The Legacy of Yangchen by F. C. Yee
“I am given no voice in decisions or plans!” but she wants one - Elusive by Genevieve Cogman
Both Simple and Weirdly Complex - Laws of the Game 25/26 by IFAB
“She believed that all people unless impeded wanted family, needed family, that family was what life was for” - Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin
I am grateful for good books - Gather Grateful by Megan Litwin
“But not everyone has dreams. Some people just are, the way that trees and rocks and rivers are just there without a reason, the rest of the world moving around them.” - Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
The other Amazonian princess - Nubia: Too Real by L. L. McKinney
Tough read for animal lovers - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
My friend is always making me read science fiction - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
The Perfect Son by Fredia McFadden - The Perfect Son by Fredia McFadden
The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright - The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
“I wanted to go home, where I felt safe. It occurred to me, as we continued our journey in silence, that when the first refugees from Earth had arrived on Giant—and, for that matter, on Io—they must have felt much the same.” - The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older
Sister Act(s Bad) - Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh
Have a Drink - Tequila Wars: Jose Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico by Ted Genoways
Murderbot takes on a murder mystery - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells