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3 Star Reviews

A Good Book At The Wrong Time - A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

A Really Meaningful Message Scribbled On A Goddamn Postcard of the Brooklyn Bridge - Alert by James Patterson

Not Every Story Needs Telling - The Jasper Dent Prequels: Lucky Day, Career Day, Neutral Mask, and Blood Boy by Barry Lyga

The Seed of Dexter Actually Bears Fruit - I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

In which I am moderately cross - The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon

I’ll Drink to That - You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning by Celia Rivenbark

Based on the Title and Cover, I Assumed Vampires, Not Werewolves - Bitten by Kelly Armstrong

New vocab word: cruciverbalist - Gridlock: Crossword Puzzles and the Mad Geniuses Who Create Them by Matt Gaffney

This book made me HUNGRY - Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Good Plot, Good Characters, Great Setting - Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older

If “Waiting for Godot” were written by T.H. White - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Mystery of Sophie Stark - The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North

Who is “my mortal enemy”? - My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather

Clueless - Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Shaking of the Sheets (and other euphemisms for sex) - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

Corn Crack Jimmy, And I Don’t Care - The Harvest by Chuck Wendig

You Can Get A Good Look At A T-Bone By Sticking Your Head Up A Bull’s Ass, But I’d Rather Take Science’s Word For It - My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

Lilli, Greta and Einar - the Danish Girl by David Ebershoff

Clean, fun humor - My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places by Mary Roach

Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Bump - The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin

At Least He’s Not A F–king Lumberjack - Dexter is Dead by Jeff Lindsay

Buenos Tardes Amigos - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

If You Give A Half-Elf a Quest - The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks

This Book Just Tried to be TOO Much - Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris

If you go into the woods today…but really, this isn’t a teddy bear picnic. - Follow You Home by Mark Edwards

Does a mix of The Matrix and Supernatural sound interesting to you? If so, maybe you should write that book better than this one. - Darkness Brutal by Rachel A. Marks

In the future all of our conversations will be in 80’s movie quotes - Armada by Ernest Cline

Not what I was expecting - Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

A Dragon Term Paper - Dragons, An Introduction to the Modern Infestation by Pamela Wharton Blanpied

Courtroom thriller without the usual Lescroart oomph! - The Fall by John Lescroart

Things need not have happened to be true - The Sandman Vol.3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Malcolm JonesIII, Colleen Doran, Charles Vess

The first half of this book is a joke, the second half is pretty okay, actually. - Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4) by Christopher Paolini

Quinn nails the family dynamic and self-doubt, other things, not so much - The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn

Sometimes your world must get turned upside down for you to truly see yourself - Chasing the Star Garden (Airship Racing Chronicles Book 1) by Melanie Karsak

A historical romance, and my first historical Milan! - The Duchess War by Courtney Milan

A Wilderness Trek into Self-Discovery - Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Lol-lee-ta. And other such shenanigans. - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Out of our minds…but really IN them. - Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative (New and Updated) by Ken Robinson

“I was not a hug person, so I didn’t know the secret of hugs until that moment: They’re not only one person’s effort. You have to hold each other up…” - The Cost of All Things by Maggie Lehrman

Seasons in the abyss - The Bloody Reign of Slayer by Joel McIver

A bit of a disappointing last book for Judy Blume. - In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

Another Sweet Story About the Wild Place - The Truth About Brave by Karen Hood-Caddy

“I was starting to feel slightly superior. ‘You should soak raw almonds in water,’ I said to my friend…” - I'll Have What She's Having by Rebecca Harrington

“M is for Magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly.” - M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman

Starting a New Adult series with yet more hockey… - The Deal by Elle Kennedy

Summer Popcorn Reading - Messy by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

House of Cards - House of Cards by Michael Dobbs

Change Slowly - Small Move, Big Change: Using Microresolutions to Transform Your Life Permanently by Caroline L. Arnold

Where Did I Come From? - Not of Woman Born by Constance Ash, Editor

It’s Not Your Usually European-backpacking Trip - Daisy Miller by Henry James

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