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3 Star Reviews

Let’s Go - Letting Go of Gravity by Meg Leder

Two Scottish bozos in a camper van. - Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish

Break a leg - Roxy the Unisaurus Rex Presents: Oh NO! The Talent Show by Eva Chen

Trying to find a new read, I found this and a few things about me. - Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

Pride Month is going full swing and is slaying. - Pride Puppy! by Robin Stevenson

More Gossip Girl than Grimm’s - Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon

If at first you don’t succeed…then that is probably normal and nothing to worry about! - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

By your powers combined, I am Captain Wallflower! - Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers, #1) by Lisa Kleypas

“Turned out that being with someone is an acquired skill. There is an art to it. Basically, you have to watch your partner take a chisel—or a war hammer, depending on the day—and chip away at the ideal version of them that you’ve created in your mind. The person you fall in love with is always slightly different from the person you need to stay in love with. More real and more flawed, but also more complex and better defined.” - The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood

You Love Me – Caroline Kepnes (2021) - You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes

Extra Reading - Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews; Players by Don DeLillo; A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke; Louise Hathcock: Queen of the State Line Mob by Robert Broughton; Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark

This is why we can’t have nice things - Moneyland by Oliver Bullough

How to use your embroidery needle as a weapon in the war against the status quo - A single thread by Tracy Chevalier

“Now demons, whatever else they may be, are full of interest” - Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

Conspiracy of Fools - Wedding Station by David Downing

A screenplay that would be better as a movie - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

A lot of characters to follow, three plots, and wondering if or when it will all make sense - A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

She Seems Like A Lot, But Also, So What - The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

The ones without names - The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

“I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself” Charlotte Bronte - Bronte by Manuela Santoni

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson (1992) - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

The Body Farm – Patricia Cornwell (1994) - The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell

Great premise about a character who is freed from a cult but wants to go back; did not like where he went with it. - First, Become Ashes by K.M. Szpara

The one where the main character is a giant worm with arms. - God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4) by Frank Herbert

The play is the thing….but life is more complicated than that (or is it?) - Please Come Off-Book by Kevin Kantor

Just like never meet your heroes, don’t revisit a childhood favorites unless you are ready for an eye-opener - The Smurfs and the Bratty Kid by Peyo

Friends and publisher decisions kinda ruined this - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

McGee #3 - A Purple Place for Dying by John D. Macdonald

Song and Dance, Man - The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built by Jack Viertel

“When you’re twins, the magic just never ends” (Little Richard, Philip Bailey) - Twins: A Graphic Novel by Varian Johnson

It is: “These are cool books, but I do not have the 250-word minimum for each of them” time. - Wild Peace by Irene Latham; Why? A Conversation About Race by Taye Diggs; Who Loves Little Lemur? by Jay Fleck

Don’t Let Anyone Dim Your Shine - For Vacation Only by Mila Nicks

Sitting crooked and talking straight - Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark

This Book Has a Sweet Tooth, Don’t Read While Hungry - The Professor Next Door by Jackie Lau

Calling Pup 681 your book is here! - Pup 681: A Sea Otter Rescue Story by Jean Reidy

I don’t think Bill W. saw this gal coming! - Other Broken Things by C. Desir

Pride and Reading - What Are Your Words?: A Book About Pronouns by Katherine Locke; Prince & Knight: Tale of the Shadow King by Daniel Haack; Julián at the Wedding (Julián, #2) by Jessica Love

I Am Ambivalent, Hear Me Roar - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Two Gaming Nerds Go on a Road Trip and…. - Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert

Vaccination by, um, well… - Alien Quarantine Rescue by Robin Lovett

A controversial question with the answer of a good book - Jo Jo Makoons: The Use-to-Be Best Friend by Dawn Quigley

This would work better without the romance - A Lowcountry Bride by Preslaysa Williams

Lots of History - We Had A Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff

“I wrote a song for you. I don’t think it gets much more cheesy than that, now, right?” - You Know I'd Never by Kara Lowndes

Chocolate Sugar Cookies Anyone? - A Good Bake by Melissa Weller, Carolynn Carreno

How to run with your mind as well as your legs - Endure: Mind, body, and the curiously elastic limits of human performance by Alex Hutchinson

Tragic: Worst Person You Know Makes a Good Point - American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis

I Get You Better By the End, But Damn Girl. - Divorcing by Susan Taubes

“Everyone’s just pretending they have it together, because they don’t realize everyone else is pretending to have it together. None of our dumbasses actually have it together.” - Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Lord save me from a sad sack narrator. - Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey

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    I just read this and the sequel, really enjoyed both!
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