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4 Star Reviews

No homo for Brad Pitt - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Home-Grown Monsters - Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

The climate be changing - Change Is in the Air: The Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist by Rebecca Donnelly and Mercè López

When the zombie outbreak happened, I didn’t expect zombie gnomes - Hooves of Death, Volume 1 by Sam Bragg

After you moo, baa and lalala - A Dance with Santa Claus by Sandra Boyton; Smooches! by Sandra Boyton; Iguana Miss You! by Sandra Boyton; When Pigs Fly!: A Song for Dreamers by Sandra Boyton

Losing Tom Hart’s heart - Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir by Tom Hart

The new familar - The Princess and the Grain of Rice by Tina Cho

Black womxnhood - Wash by Ebony Stewart

Andrew Wyeth - The Apprenticeship of Andrew Wyeth: Painting a Family Legacy by Gene Barretta

A Inconsistent Reading Experience - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Resisting all my instincts to make an inappropriate puberty pun… - Secret Boys’ Business (2nd Edition) by Rose Stewart, Fay Angelo & Heather Anderson

The Calm Before the Storm - The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

In which I write 1,200 words about non-book things - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I’m Still Listening - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

hot take if reading this book doesn’t make your blood boil you might be an android - On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane by Emily Guendelsberger

unless my math is wrong, Cannonballing on the oldest book in my TBR pile - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

a pre-Covid novella that I thought was post-Covid - Severance by Ling Ma

Self-help advice for taking control of your life - The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins

“If a book is well-written, I always find it too short” - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

As the worlds turn - Mad Ship: The Liveship Traders Trilogy book 2 by Robin Hobb

French Noir - Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-Patrick Manchette

“His memory, like the world’s, was getting spotty.” - Hiroshima by John Hersey

Mason Hereford is a mad genius - Turkey and the Wolf by Mason Hereford with JJ Goode

You’ll be spooked so much it’s a good thing this is set in a bathroom - The Harrowing Game by Antonie Revoy

I heard it’s quite a fan of growth music. - Music Plants Hope by Tonnye Fletcher and Natalia Bruno

I wonder if they say, “Break a leg” for good luck in India? - The First Girl on Stage: Tunga Dances the Yakshagana by Shruthi Rao

Animals, and birds, and counting numbers; oh my! - Knight Owl's Little Christmas by Christopher Denise

New place, new community, new home - The Garlic Eaters by Madison Safer

It is not a Pain to read about this Great One - Otherwise Known as Judy the Great: A Poetic Ode to Judy Blume by Selina Alko

The book I didn’t think I’d like, read anyway, and was delightfully surprised by the results - The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Fool’s Errand (Tawny Man #1) - Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb

Who am I if not Zeus? - Tender Cruelty by Katee Robert

Bodies and Christ - American Rapture by C.J. Leede; This is My Body by Lindsay King-Miller

A true test of compatibility - A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

Not a hinge in sight - All Superheroes Need Photo Ops by Elizabeth Stephens

“Fern wondered if all dramatic showdowns had such an awkward aftermath. It was more painful than a book group pretending they’d read the story.” - Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Bradlee

That Rumpelstiltskin is my name - Rumpelstiltskin by Mac Barnett and Carson Ellis

Not a buddy movie - Stray by Ryu Kamio

Silent music for peace - Music and Silence: The Passion and Protest of Pablo Casals by Christy Mihaly

Music puzzle - Piece by Piece: How Stephen Sondheim Made Musical Puzzles Come Alive by Erin Frankel

It’s the 1980s and punk is hot & so are Nina & Kerri. So, now what? - Punk Like Me by JD Glass

When I Kill You by B.A. Paris - When I Kill You by B.A. Paris

Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher - Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher

This is how I get in trouble when ppl ask me what books are about - Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter ; Wrong Alibi by Christina Dodd; Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

Pike, This Ain’t Wuthering Heights - The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub

Good Mix of Stories - The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024 by S.A. Cosby, Ed.

“I can change. I can find myself a thousand different times, and I’m not done yet.” - What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon

The boy who needed to be God - Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming

Adult literacy - My Kentucky Moonlight School by Kim Michele Richardson

The man in the black hat and his magic box - Gwendy’s Button Box (Book 1) by Stephen King

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