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Emergency Contact doesn’t quite make the contact with me I’d hoped for - Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

(Mount) Olympus, Texas - Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

Fine, I’ll Say It - Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

For the Girls who’ll be the Women - Bedtime Ballet by Kallie George; Stella Keeps the Sun Up by Clothilde Ewing; Pineapple Princess by Sabine Hahn

Tropey and wintery paranormal romance - Frostbite by J Emery

84, Charing Cross Road for baseball fans - Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger

The normalcy was almost violent in its opposition to everything else. - Bass-Ackwards by Eris Adderly

Thoughts on Until the End of Time – Guest Post by Rich Harrison - Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene

Where Do You Get Your Story Ideas? - Story Behind the Book, Volume 3 by edited by Kristijan Meic and Ivana Steiner

Meet your next Cute Romance read for teens - The Meet-Cute Project by Rhiannon Richardson,

I used 266 words to describe a wordless book - Whirl by Deborah Kerbel

The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States - The Pilot and the Passenger by Leo Marx

Enjoyed it while reading it, then forgot about it almost immediately - Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

Henry James would not have understood what a smart house is. - The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln - The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L Carter

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser

If you ever wanted to hear LeVar Burton say the phrase “sweet and salty love”, then this is the collection for YOU! - The Visit by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor; 2043...A Merman I Should Turn to Be by Nisi Shawl; These Alien Skies by C.T. Rwizi; Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson; We Travel the Spaceways by Victor LaValle

I need these books in a completed edition! - Asadora! V02 by Niaoki Urasawa

A theme of Love - Lost and Found by Kate Banks; Me and Ms. Too by Laura Ruby

Nelly and Elizabeth took a little trip - Nellie vs. Elizabeth: Two Daredevil Journalists' Breakneck Race Around the World by Kate Hannigan

A sister’s love, a sisters struggle - Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers by Lina Al-Hathloul

“Bon appétit!” “Enjoy your meal!” - Born Hungry: Julia Child Becomes the French Chef by Alex Prud’Homme

Hold on….let me think - Hold That Thought by Bree Galbraith

Who says a woman can’t fight? - To the Front!: Clara Barton Braves the Battle of Antietam by Claudia Friddell

Even adults have the feeling - Almost Always Best, Best Friends by Apryl Stott

The Transition Didn’t Happen AND THEREFORE … What, Michael Lewis? - The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

Fun, Fast Fantasy Reads - Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo; Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo; Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Easter Bonnet Competitions and War Crimes - Easter Bonnet Murder by Leslie Meier

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

The Evil and the Mask - The Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura

“Nature is chaos, magic is order, but they are not wholly unrelated.” - The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

A placeholder of an Inspector Gamache novel - A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

The Forest - The Forest by Lisa Quigley

Sort of sexy, not really addictive - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Not sure if it sparked joy, but it did provide me with some handy tips - Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Interesting plot rather let down by stock characters - Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts

My interest in this series has waxed and waned pretty quickly - Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas; Crescent City: House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love? - Landslide by Susan Conley

“She was stuck sitting in a wingback chair, her phone as dead as a brick in her hand, and listening to Orchid pepper the townie with questions about how bad the storm had gotten.” - In the Hall with the Knife by Diana Peterfreund

My dad isn’t a vampire but my mom was (almost) a lumberjack - Lumberjackula by Mat Heagerty

By the Pricking of My Thumbs and Postern of Fate and Seven Dials Mystery - By the Pricking of my Thumbs by Agatha Christie; Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie; The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie

All Over The Place - Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution by Zillah Eisenstein

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A book about nothing - Zero Zebras: A Counting Book about What’s Not There by Bruce Goldstone

I have an unusual name, too. However,… - Thao: A Picture Book by Thao Lam

Bitter sweet goodbyes - The Sour Cherry Tree by Naseem Hrab

Sometimes I Grumblesquinch too - Sometimes I Grumblesquinch by Rachel Vail

Popsicles that are out of this world - Moon Pops by Heena Baek

If you want to keep on swimmin’ you’ll need to take care of the planet first - To Change a Planet by Christina Soontorvat

A nightmare before a 1950s Irish Christmas - Snow by John Banville

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