Independent, forward-thinking girl and the charming boy next door - Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
“Fuck waiting for the world to change you; you start by trying to change it.” - Easy Street: The Hard Way by Ron Perlman
“I was holding someone captive and all that was going through my mind was a Billboard Top 40 love song.” - Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky
“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug.” - Redshirts: A Novel with 3 Codas by John Scalzi
My CBR8 YA Book Club Review - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
All the World’s a Stage and Quentin only a Squire. - Full of Briars by Seanan McGuire
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry, But that’s alright, because I love the way you lie - Crooked Little Lies by Barbara Taylor Sissel
Victorian Moralizing and Some Sisterly Snark - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
This series is fun, but not everything I wanted it to be. - Double Down (Lois Lane, #2) by Gwenda Bond
“Now it was as if everybody had become their own fan. Everybody was their own paparazzi.” - The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World by Nancy Jo Sales
Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Mansfield Park - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
“Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug” - Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
Everything is improved with Ben Foster - Hostage by Robert Crais
Almost Too Classic Fantasy - The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks
“It was not the sea that was cruel, but the people…” - The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
match.com + CSI = true love - Sex, Lies, and Online Dating by Rachel Gibson
Murder in the cane - The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
Dancing Girls - Dancing Girls by Margaret Atwood
What the Kids Might Call #Relatable - Books of Adam: The Blunder Years by Adam Ellis
Fate is a Funny Thing - Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner
The Answer is 42 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Standardized testing is the enemy - Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue by Tom Angleberger
The Origami Yoda saga continues. . . . - The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett by Tom Angleberger
Education - Education by Ellen White
East of Eden: Or Steinbeck’s Weird Relationship with Women - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Meh Home - Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Biggest thing I learned? Kitty Hawk was not in Ohio - the Wright Brothers by David McCullogh
All the Sudden People Were Dying Everywhere - The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
One Okay Earl and I’m not sure he “deserves” a lover - One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean
Not So Roaring 20s - Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
Float like a bubble, sting like a bee - Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer
Everyone Just LOVED Each Other - Charles and Emma: The Darwin's Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
“What would that be like? To wake up one morning and be normal?” - The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
Scoundrels and gambling and romance oh my! - A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
Love by the Numbers - Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean
Problematic Revolution - Dietland by Sarai Walker
Down With Useless Boy Toy - Twelve Kings by Bradley Beaulieu
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere - The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Sharks, Family, and Growing-up - Everything Is Teeth by Evie Wyld
Summer Classes Can Sometimes Be Worthwhile - Multiple Paths to Literacy: Assessment and Differentiated Instruction for Diverse Learners, K-12 by Joan P. Gipe
An interesting letdown - Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley
Mermaids the Eat People & are Kind of Bitchy - Wake (Watersong 1) by Amanda Hocking
What Ever Actually Happened To The Nazis, Anyway? - The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski
And this is why I like to give authors two or three books before I write them off - The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst
A Jolly Little Romp, What? - Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
Sometimes YA needs to be read by young adults only - The Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian
“If you can stomach it, you’re invited to watch . . . as I eat myself to death.” - Butter by Erin Jade Lange
Buffalo Soldiers in Italy - Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
Didn’t really see what the fuss is about - Captain Marvel, vol 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More by Kelly Sue DeConnick and David Lopez
Another Murder with Inspector Gamache - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny