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“It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. “ - Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Sheppard

Countless dreams, countless nightmares, one eerie mystery - Nightmare Hunter #1: A Graphic Novel by Brady Smith

This reminds me of a younger Summer of My German Soldier - Enemies in the Orchard: A World War 2 Novel in Verse by Dana VanderLugt

Not sure if I’ll read the sequels - The Changeling: Volume 1 by Tina N. Lugo

I only counted one of the four as they are short short (but cute) board books - Hello, Beach! by Katherine Pryor and Rose Soini

Maybe pick one story and tell it well? - A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself: A Novel by Katherine Howe

Jukebox TARDIS - Jukebox by Nidhi Chanani

Check Please - Table for Two by Amor Towles

“Women seem wicked, when you’re unwanted” - Beware the Woman (2023) by Megan Abbott

“Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else.” - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion

Kerbel and Lo Present: Animals - What About an Elephant?: A Fact-Filled Savanna Adventure by Deborah Kerbel; What About an Octopus?: A Fact-Filled Underwater Adventure by Deborah Kerbel

I’m on a role with Author Leila Boukarim - Rima and the Painter by Leila Boukarim ; Lost Words: An Armenian Story of Survival and Hope by Leila Boukarim ; Sundays Are for Feasts by Leila Boukarim

You eat weird - Chomp-O-Rama: The Strange Ways That Animals Eat  by Maria Birmingham

More than the crow flies - Cranky, Crabby Crow (Saves the World) by Corey R. Tabor

April is Poetry Month - She'll Be the Sky: Poems by Women and Girls by Ella Risbridger

Not Bad, but Not for Me - Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

I Don’t Believe in Astrology by Debra Silverman, M.A. - I Don't Believe in Astrology by Debra Silverman

Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights…. - The Favorites by Layne Fargo

Perfectly pleasant but could have been more - A Love Like the Sun by Riss M Neilson

Not Without My Dice. - A Conventional Boy by Charles Stross

It Follows - My Idol Sits the Next Desk Over!, Vol. 1 by Tetsu Tsutsui and Koyubi Sugawara; Hauntress by Minetarō Mochizuki

The Time When the Book Grew On Me - They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Puddles and Penguins - The Noisy Puddle: A Vernal Pool Through the Seasons by Linda Booth Sweeney; No Huddles for Heloise by Deborah Kerbel

Take me to Sugar Town - Sugar Town by Hazel Newlevant

A showdown of the scent… senses - Dogs vs. Humans: A Showdown of the Senses by Stephanie Gibeault and Bambi Edlund

What is a detective’s favorite fruit? Clue-berries. - Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast V07 Whodonut?: A Holiday Mystery by Josh Funk and Brendan Kearney

The case of the disappearing ghosts - Installment Immortality by Seanan McGuire

You’re never too old to come of age. - Motherlover by Lindsay Ishihiro

The opposite of dark academia might be cozy - The English Experience by Julie Schumacher

Storytelling Style Grew on Me - All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

Part 2 problems but not really that bad - Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

The Thin Line Between Fantasy and Reality - Mary and the Birth of Frankstein by Anne Eekhout

Gee, are you socially awkward? - Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

“Their wives … their mothers … sitting in silence and screaming into darkness” - Lost Among the Living by Simone St James

Or You Could Try Talking Sometime? - The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh: A Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery by Claudia Gray

I read Snow’s story to get to Haymitch - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

What’s in your pockets right now? - Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah Carlson

A Cozy Low-Stakes Graphic Novel - The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught

Summer dares and becoming aware - Ready or Not by Andi Porretta

Raindrops falling on everything - It Starts With A Raindrop by Sally Garland

She was “Sick and tired of being sick and tired.” - The Story of Fannie Lou Hamer: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers (The Story of Biographies) by Margeaux Weston

‘What else is there to say? That I loved him more than I ever thought it was possible to love anyone.’ - After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

He was handsome, Ben supposed, if you liked angry men. - It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #1) by Cat Sebastian

Say hello to the night, Lost in the shadows - The Lost Boys (Comic) by Tim Seeley (writer), Scott Godlewski (artist)

Egyptology, a Met Gala and an Art Heist - The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

Family legacy and family secrets - Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Between Borders and Boyhood - Solito by Javier Zamora

Denis Villeneuve is a Genius - Dune by Frank Herbert

*Sigh* - When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

I Love Swiss Cheese But Not As a Plot Device - The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf

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