High expectations led to disappointment - More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
“Men who were delicious enough to make you lose your head should be imbibed sensibly.” - The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert
We gonna celebrate with you! - Luke & the Longest Night: A Wheel of the Year Book by Kathleen Converse
Take That you meanie witch and your crazy, supernatural wild boar! - Took by Mary Downing Hahn
Packed a punch with love - Love Is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement by Sandra Neil Wallace
Getting in too deep - The Children of the Sea, Volume one by Daisuke Igarashi
The wall of Walstead - Pup and Dragon: How to Catch an Elf by Alice Walstead; How to Catch Santa Claus by Alice Walstead; How to Catch a Garden Fairy: A Mythical Adventure Through Nature by Alice Walstead; How to Catch a Daddysaurus by Alice Walstead; My First How to Catch the Big Bad Wolf by Alice Walstead
Pirate Gal meets Damsel in a Beauty and Beast remake - The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl by Emily Riesbeck and Nora J. Barna
No trick, just treat - Monster Support Group: The Werewolf's Tale by Laura Suárez
Nobody is Skating on Thin Ice - Wei Skates On by Nathan Chen; Pop’s Perfect Present by Corey Finkle
Everyone In This Book Was An Idiot - Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Closer Than We Thought - Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
I like Trash… recycled sustainably - Team Trash: A Time Traveler’s Guide to Sustainability by Kate Wheeler
Creepy yet unsatisfying jaunt into a Japanese underworld with games. - Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons
Jump on the Earth Train - Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider by Jessica Lanan; The Day the River Caught Fire: How the Cuyahoga River Exploded and Ignited the Earth Day Movement by Barry Wittenstein
“Summer went away, still the yearning stays” - It's Not Summer Without You (2010) by Jenny Han
Ah, Yes. UK Cities Are Super Old - The Little Book of Glasgow by Geoff Holder
Ah, the Art of Clumsily Remaking a Classic - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: High School is Hell (Vol. 1) by Jordie Bellaire; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once Bitten (Vol. 2) by Jordie Bellaire; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Hellmouth (Vol. 3) by Jordie Bellaire; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ring of Fire (Vol. 4) by Jordie Bellaire
Are you Team Planet or Team Wrong… I mean Dwarf Planet - Pluto!: Not a Planet? Not a Problem! by Stacy McAnulty
bit too much plot for me, but I enjoyed a number of the threads and will read the next - The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles
Damen’s understanding of Laurent rearranged itself, in order that he might despise him more accurately. - Captive Prince: Book One of the Captive Prince Trilogy by C.S. Pacat
Talking wordy to you - Maddie and Mabel by Kari Allen; The Magical Clay Doll : A Legend Retold in English and Chinese by Ning Sun; Maribel’s Year by Michelle Sterling
Book it to the library or your local indie bookstore - Nick and Charlie: A Heartstopper Novella by Alice Oseman; Class Act: A Graphic Novel by Jerry Craft; Squished: A Graphic Novel by Megan Wagner Lloyd
More adventures in bedtime reading - How To Be A Pirate by Cressida Cowell
Have tissues? - Grandpa’s Window by Laura Ghel
Black and White and Technicolor - Kafka by Nishioka Kyoudai, David Yang; Goblin Mode Guide to Life: Embrace Your Feral Side and Thrive in Imperfection by Editors of Chartwell Books
You don’t look like a scientist - The Clues Are in the Poo: The Story of Dinosaur Scientist Karen Chin by Karen Chin and Jane Kurtz
More disturbing than I expected - The Girl's I've Been by Tess Sharpe
Just Walk Forward - Last Flight by Kristen Mai Giang
The ghosts are in the house - Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories by Roald Dahl
World of Garvey - Garvey’s Choice: The Graphic novel by Nikki Grimes
She’s got the beat - Pitch Perfect and Persistent!: The Musical Debut of Amy Cheney Beach by Caitlin DeLems
Yeah, I Don’t Know - Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg
Adventures in Bedtime Reading - How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
The beautiful stuff - Duck, Duck, Tiger by Brittany R. Jacobs; For the Beauty of the Earth by Folliott S. Pierpoint
And I thought I needed a raise - Vern, Custodian of the Universe by Tyrell Waiters
Travel with books - Tomorrow Is New Year's Day: Seollal, A Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year by Aram Kim; One White Crane: A Bilingual Counting Book of the Months by Vickie Lee
Generations - My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott; Babo: A Tale of Armenian Rug-Washing Day by Astrid Kamalyan; Dadaji’s Paintbrush by Rashmi Sirdeshpande
“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.” - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelvy Van Pelt
Peanuts, Cracker Jack, pop flies . . . and physics? - Science, Matter and the Baseball Park by Catherine Ciocchi; Finley: A Moose on the Caboose by Candace Spizzirri
To continue the summer of Freida… - The Locked Door by Freida McFadden
I was on a “And Then There Were None” kick with mixed results - One by One by Freida McFadden; One by One by Ruth Ware
Something of a Letdown But Compelling Enough That I’m Still Reading This Series - A Shadow of Crows by Yasmine Galenorn
There Are Runners and Then There Are RUNNERS - Solo by Jenny Tough
Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI series - Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #3 Shadow of Death by Heather Graham; Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #1 Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham; Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #2 Crimson Summer by Heather Graham
More Freida! - The Inmate by Freida McFadden
Returning to CBR after the summer of moving! - Never Lie by Freida McFadden
Warfare of soccer at Bull Run Regional Park (and other stuff) - Team Photograph by Lauren Haldeman
The other first Radio City Rockette - She Kept Dancing: The True Story of a Professional Dancer with a Limb Difference by Sydney Mesher and Catherine Laudone
Two women doing their things - A Take-Charge Girl Blazes and Trail to Congress: The Story of Jeannette Rankin by Gretchen Woelfle; Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Path to Kindness by Aura Lewis