“You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I’d like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you to stop talking about the things that interest you.” - A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
The Gale - The Gale by Mo Yan, Chengliang Zhu and Ying-Hwa Hu
A physically exhilarating and exhausting experience - My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel by Chiara Lagani, Mara Cerri, Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante
Everybody Wants to Be Le Chat - To Catch a Thief by David Dodge
Of Wasps and Other Incryptids - Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire
Slightly predictable for a reader without making the characters seem obtuse - The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
A Great Graphic Novel for Fans of Cozy Fantasy - Forgive-Me-Not by Mari Costa
Space Archeology and a Mystery - The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey & Mercedes Lackey
Pretty Woman, if the woman is a penniless single mother rather than a leggy L.A call girl - Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan
For the discerning reader who prefers books that are neither too literary nor too commercial - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Belonging - Until We Meet Again by Lily Kim Qian
The book that is NSFW and yet somehow I got away with reading it there….. - That Sexy Bea by Owlin
This is really neat to learn about! - Pufflings Fly Free!: A Rescue Tale from Iceland by Colleen Paeff and by Linda Ólafsdóttir
Romancing the journalist - Cover Story by Mhairi McFarlane
The Privilege of Time - Skipshock by Caroline O'Donoghue
“For better or worse” sometimes means being lost at sea for 117 days with each other. - A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst
When Misfits Go Exploring - The Marsh Fellows by Anna-Laura Sullivan
If it first you don’t succeed brush yourself off and try again, try again - The Do-Over by Lynn Painter
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Re-Do List by Denise Williams - The Re-Do List by Denise Williams
Lost in the woods - Heartwood by Amity Gaige
Drugs don’t always help - Unshrunk by Laura Delano
Real Americans - Real Americans by Rachel Khong
When Satire Isn’t - Severance by Ling Ma
Damon Salvatore and gladiators - We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark
The Hubris and Entitlement of Alchemists - Inkpot Gods by Seanan McGuire
Princess Lessons for a Princess Party and thensome - Cursed Princess Club v.5 by Lamb Cat
I’ve honestly lost track how many times I have read one and hope I can repeat it with the other title - The Tree in Me by Corinna Luyken; Hello, Ocean! by Corinna Luyken
I wrote the review ages ago, but left the wording in present tense - This Is How I Say I Love You: Little Bunny’s Bedtime Story Told in English and Chinese by Dayong Gan; The Most Beautiful Painting: Discover the Mystery of Chinese Script (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition) by Yajuan Lu and Jian Li
It’s a love story, baby, just say yes - It's a Love Story by Annabelle Monaghan
“Writing gives you the power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much” - The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
My Second Tove Jansson and the Newest Murderbot - Platform Decay by Martha Wells; Fair Play by Tove Jansson
“The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air.” - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
“You know, Kiley Forge, most people like me.” “I’m not most people.” “Oh, I’m aware.“ - The Scoring Secret by Ainsley Booth
Tl:dr – Cannabis turns anxious, uptight ER doc into anxious hoochie daddy who listens to his patients. - Pot Shot by Laura Piper Lee
a novella I wish were a novel, but then again when don’t I - The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
“She was a half-wild thing of ink and grass and sea breezes, raised by books and rabbits and fairy lore, and that was all she cared to be.” - The Magician's Daughter by H. G. Parry
“I have everything I ever wanted–and it tastes just as delicious as I always imagined.” - Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
I agree; The Tempest is a horrible play to perform on an ocean voyage. - A Sea Change: A Shadowhunters Novella by Cassandra Clare
“Emotion check: Having someone else support your bad decisions feels kind of good” - Platform Decay: Murderbot Diaries Book 8 by Martha Wells
They go into the woods and do what? - An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr
I guess my reading vibe this year is slanting towards cozy and comforting - The Last Father-Daughter Dance: A Short Story by Lisa Wingate; Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes 1) by Travis Baldree
Amal El-Mohtar Excels at Writing Fairy Tales - Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
No longer under his grandmother’s table - I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir by Eugene Yelchin
Don’t read and eat - Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre and Steve Jenkins
The man, the myth, the nonsense - The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear Who Invented Nonsense by Wolverton Hill and Laura Carlin
“I’m a fuckin’ honey badger and by this claw”— she held her hand up—“ I fuckin’ rule.” - Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston; In a Badger Way by Shelly Laurenston; Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston
Life, uhh, finds a way. – The Divine Jeff - Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The return of Nora: The Lost Bride Trilogy - Inheritance by Nora Roberts; The Mirror by Nora Roberts; The Seven Rings by Nora Roberts
And he left her behind, as much as he could, the taste of maraschino cherry still bright on the tip of his tongue. - Soon by You by Dahlia Adler