Hoping the series picks up in the sequels - The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston
If you can’t beat em, make em bleed like pigs - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Friendship can stink…. - Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake
The other Goliath - Goliath: The Boy Who Was Different by Ximo Abadía
Fight with all your might that un-friend, the Night - Fight the Night by Tomie dePaol
Put a little color in your dreams - The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Bash, shindig or a party it’s all the same to Violet: Scary - Violet Shrink by Christine Baldacchino
Let’s Hug! - Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni
It’s a lot harder to write reviews than it is to read books. - Duma Key by Stephen King; The Totally Awesome Hulk (Vol. 1): Cho Time by Greg Pak; The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
They are coming, Mattie, they are marching. - The March by EL Doctorow
Barry Sutton pulls over into the fire lane at the main entrance of the Poe building, an Art Deco tower glowing white in the illumination of its exterior sconces. - Recursion by Blake Crouch
What Happens to a Dream Deferred? - Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
The Coming-Of-Age of a Friendship - Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
From Good to Meh - Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
Breaking Up is Hard to Do…Especially When You Kill Him - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Catasterous disastrophe - The Disasters by M. K. England
Four plants in search of a human - The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Squeeze me, would you like to read a book about squeezes? - Three Squeezes by Jason Pratt
More than womb and board - You and I, as Mothers: A Raw and Honest Guide to Motherhood by Laura Prepon
“She didn’t know how to get it—but she had a feeling that if she stuck with the Librarians for long enough, she might be able to figure it out. How to feast instead of starving. How to like the person who she was instead of fighting it.” - Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Games People Play - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Aged but in an unexpected way - Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins
I’m Just Not That Into Her - Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
“The dark shadow of crime spreads right and left, from the Penitentiary and the Workhouse, over all the institutions, the Asylum, the Alms-House and Charity Hospital; so that, in the minds of the people at large, all suffer alike from an evil repute.” - Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn
I’d rather spend time with David Tennant’s Crowley - The Night Jar by Deborah Hewitt
Far, far back during the Second World War, a certain Anton Steenwijk lived with his parents and brother on the outskirts of Haarlem. - The Assault by Harry Mulisch
The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies’ Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club. - It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Definitely Not Jack and Rose - The Deep by Alma Katsu
Trying too hard to be too much - Finna by Nino Cipri
A perfunctory trot through the 17th century - England in the Seventeenth Century by Maurice Ashley
Who knew ice cream could be so dangerous? - Van Wars: The Real Story of the Brutal Glasgow Ice Cream Van Wars by Teddy Renoc
A mysterious BONK in a story you know - Chicken Little: The Real and Totally True Tale by Sam Wedelich
Cannon-balling into one Octopus Garden (or something like that) - Cannonball! by Sacha Cotter; How to Put an Octopus to Bed by Sherri Duskey Rinker; Thank You, Garden by Liz Garton Scanlon
Brian Engle rolled the American Pride L1011 to a stop at Gate 22 and flicked off the FASTEN SEATBELT light at exactly 10:14 PM. - The Langoliers by Stephen King; Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King; The Library Policeman by Stephen King; Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog by Stephen King
The new curate seemed a nice young man, but what a pity it was that his combinations showed, tucked carelessly into socks, when he sat down. - Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
As she woke up in the pod, she remembered three things. - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
His name was Gaal Domick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before. - Foundation by Isaac Asimov
TEENS! IN! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE! - The Disasters by M. K. England
It’s a Perfectly Fine Book - The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Let’s read about penguins in Feb… June! - Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Middlegame was solidly middle of the pack - Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
A so-so reckoning - A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
If You Felt Like Your Harry Potter Knowledge Wasn’t Deep Enough, Here’s all the Spells - The Unofficial Ultimate Harry Potter Spellbook by Media Lab Books
Too Much and Too Little - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
How old do you think Miss DeGroot really is? - The Other by Thomas Tryon
You don’t wear a wedding ring and I go on. - You by Caroline Kepnes
Modern haunted house story with a twist - Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
“Heroes hate wasting time. ‘You’re wasting my time,’ they’ll say. Yet they devote very little time to time management, and rarely consult a diary.” - The Grip of Film by Richard Ayoade
“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity – a virtuous woman.” - I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary MacLane
With Friends like These… - The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter