Give me a man who can cook and bake amazing things instead of an athlete any day. - Make It Sweet by Kristen Callihan
“I’m human like everybody else. It’s just that I’m so tired, so worn out, I can’t feel anymore.” - Passing by Nella Larsen
“Now, turn down the lights, flip the page, take my hand, and start the dance…” - Turn Down the Lights by Edited by Richard Chizmar
“Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.” - The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
A servicable sophomore entry in the series - The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Something here went more wrong than usual. - House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2) by Sarah J. Maas
“I know the world will survive us–and in some ways it will be more alive.” - The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Tasty bite of fantasy with fallen angels and shifters with a setting drawing from Vietnamese culture. Bingo #7! - Of Dragons, Feasts, and Murder by Aliette de Bodard
Only mediocre-but-promising options - Only Bad Options by Jennifer Estep
“I made faces like the faces on the rocks, and I twisted myself about like the dead ones, and I lay down flat on the ground like the twisted ones.” - The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
Lots of A Court of Thorns and Roses reviews (3.5 to be exact) - A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Thorns and Roses #2 by Sarah J. Maas; A Court of Wings and Ruin, A Court of Thorns and Roses #3 by Sarah J. Maas; A Court of Frost and Starlight, A Court of Thorns and Roses #3.1 by Sarah J. Maas; A Court of Silver Flames, A Court of Thorns and Roses #4 by Sarah J. Maas
Not the final in the series, but my final read of Dune books - Children of Dune, Dune #3 by Frank Herbert
Shorts - Cape Fear by John D Macdonald; In the Suicide Mountains by John Gardner; More Better Deals by Joe R Lansdale
“You put dinosaurs and people together, you always get screaming.” (Bingo) - Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
If Enemy Pie, Casper the friendly ghost, and Dr. Doolittle made a book - Batcat by Meggie Ramm
Mycroft Holmes 2 and 3 - Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Anna Waterhouse; The Empty Birdcage by Anna Waterhouse; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
As the song goes, What’s love got to do with it? - The Love Report by BeKa and Maya
Who needs a yeti? - Yetis Are the Worst! by Alex Willan
Special lesson and good food. - The Best Kind of Mooncake by Pearl Auyeung
Dickens in Appalachia - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
“I was the kid with the shackle clamped around his wrist:” King’s Latest Doorstopper - Fairy Tale by Stephen King
“Nothing could be trusted in Chicago, especially the weather.” - Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
The Not So Evil Evil Society of Cats and the Dogs who Oppose Them - The Evil Secret Society of Cats by Pandania
“You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?” I asked as I closed the book’s cover and headed for the door. “They always end up dead.” - Siege and Storm (Shadow and Bone Trilogy #2) by Leigh Bardugo
“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.” - Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone Trilogy #1) by Leigh Bardugo
Carnival time - The Carnival Prince by Daniel J. O’Brien
O Brother, Where Heart Thou? - Heartsick by Jessie Stephens
It smells like teen spirit - Bounce Back by Misako Rocks!
It is Redwall! - Redwall: The Graphic Novel by Brian Jacques
Not velvet, more like scratchy polyester - Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
wasn’t my jam but could be yours! - A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows
Joe Kurtz and Liebestod - Hardcase by Dan Simmons; Hard Freeze by Dan Simmons; Hard as Nails by Dan Simmons; Lovedeath by Dan Simmons
The Palladium Wars 2 and 3 - Ballistic by Marko Kloos; Citadel by Marko Kloos
“No one ever believes me when I tell them my uncle Earl owns a museum.” - The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
“[Books] made the nights stretch out, they made thoughts unfurl, out from the small pool of light cast by my bedside lamp, into the night and out over the prairie…” - Epilogue by Will Boast
That’s a nice tree - Deborah’s Tree by Jane Yolen
A good time, but not my favorite of Hibbert’s books. - That Kind of Guy (Ravenswood, #3) by Talia Hibbert
Everybody wants to rule the world - When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney
A standard domestic thriller with a premise that doesn’t really deliver. - The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
The Dinner - The Dinner by Herman Koch
You know, it is okay to say fat - Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado
Whiteout - Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton
Very Sweet Book - Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart
My, my, that was messy… - I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman
The Good With the Bad - Making a Scene by Constance Wu
Nightmares, just in time for Halloween - The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
“The frontier regulars did the job.” - Fort Davis by Robert Wooster
Take Me. I Am a Scientist. I Also Lift Things - The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Mindy and change - Paws: Mindy Makes Some Space by Nathan Fairbairn
Gwendy 2 – 2 Gwendy 2 Featherous – and also Gwendy 3 - Gwendy's Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar; Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King; Richard Chizmar