What’s in a Name? - Thunder Boy Jr by Sherman Alexie
I think rock stars may be the earls of contemporary romance - Idol by Kristen Callihan
Eighties Nostalgia Overload - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
I Really Wanted to Punch Her Parents… A Lot - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
More Supernatural Than I’d Like - End of Watch by Stephen King
Tidbits from the world of the First Law. - Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
And so I disliked a book written by Gene Luen Yang. - Superman, Vol. 1: Before Truth by Gene Luen Yang
Where I aim for objectivity toward a book that didn’t inspire a great swelling of emotion - The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
I’ve been in Paris meeting lots of different ladies - French Milk by Lucy Knisley
This is the story of an unhappy marriage. - The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Steinbeck, I can’t. - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The final Sherlock Holmes novel - The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock returns from the publishing grave! - The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sofia Samatar’s first novel. - A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
My Review: “Meh” - Sweet Disorder by Rose Lerner
Mostly Stephen King, but a little bit of Adolph Hitler. Now with a Bernie Sanders reference! - The Running Man, Revival, Ur, Pronto, Riding the Rap, and 1924 by Stephen King (x3), Elmore Leonard, and Peter Range Ross
Knisley is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors - An Age of License by Lucy Knisley
A great mystery in translation - The Ice Queen by Nele Neuhaus
A promising new fantasy series (without a single white character!) - Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
Living Off the Grid – What could possibly go wrong? - City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong
The Talk was Better than the Book: An Almost Eternal Journey - The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
A really good story trapped behind some not so great writing - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Jane Austen-lite - Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope
Only a month late to the reviewing party! - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
A disappointing devotional read - The Acts of the Apostles by Ellen G. White
Second verse, same as the first. - Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy, #2) by Robin Hobb
Further adventures in Star Wars origami - Darth Paper Strikes Back by Tom Angleberger
Bittersweet symphony (minus most of the angst) - Bittersweet by Sarina Bowen
Crazy Ass, Fighter Chick with a Purple Fire Blade that Spawns from Her Chest - Demorn: Blade of Exile by David Finn
Werewolves of (Victorian) London - Moonglow by Kristen Callihan
Runaway bride and out of work guitarist - Dirty by Kylie Scott
I’d like to nominate Fisher to Go Fug Yourself’s Drinks with Broads club - Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
Hawaiian history factoids for the NPR set - Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
The Backstory of Red Queen: The First Betrayal & the Start of the Scarlet Guard - Cruel Crown by Victoria Aveyard
A peace that blacked yer eye, a peace that split yer lip. - The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Pet Bereavement Counselors Have Problems Too - Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found by Meg Donohue
“every man’s watchman, is his conscience.” - Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Escapist Highlanders - Dark Sword Series 1-6 by Donna Grant
Beetle Badass - Abomination by Gary Whitta
A Graveyard Where Nothing Stays Buried - Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
Interesting material about a couple of real assholes - Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier
Just like Jane Austen, but with reality TV, Cross Fit, anorexia, and tons of premarital sex. - Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Catch My Disease - Mercury Striking by Rebecca Zanetti
Mama was right: you DO have to kiss a lot of frogs - You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs by Laurie Graff
Sing me a lullaby - This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
This book would make V.C. Andrews blush… - Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
The Heart of Whiteness - New England White by Stephen L. Carter
“I was waiting for someone that would sweep me off my feet and would be swept up by me in equal parts.” - Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Woodcutters and Their Messes - Trix and the Faerie Queen by Alethia Kontis
Have I mentioned how much I enjoy fairy tale retellings? - Tales of Arilland: Fairy Stories from the Dark Wood by Alethia Kontis