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4 Star Reviews

End Zone – Done Delillo (1972) - End Zone by Don Delillo

As They Say, a Rollicking Adventure - The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

House hunting and Lessons in Leadership for Vampires - Out of House and Home by Drew Hayes

“The women save themselves.” - What If You & Me by Roni Loren

Get out of that haus, man! - Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon

Perfectly serviceable humorous memoir about someone who seems to have his head on straight despite ingesting a truly scary amount of drugs - Yearbook by Seth Rogen

The cover of this book is as gorgeous as the writing inside it - Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Becky Chambers does it again (just…could she do it for longer???) - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

A pretty quick re-read but there’s no shame in that! - The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

“But it was a mistake thinking of that as an end. There is no end. Bad things happen, and then they stop, but they keep on wreaking havoc inside of people.” - Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

Draw Draw, Draw Your Pen Manically Across the Page - River of Ink by Etiene Appert

A middling middle - Shift by Hugh Howey

A kind of hopeful dystopia - Wool by Hugh Howey

Forever looking for my Anti-hero… - Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard; Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard; Gabriel's Redemption by Sylvain Reynard; Gabriel's Promise by Sylvain Reynard; The Prince by Sylvian Reynard

Not quite The Martian, but pretty darn good - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott (1994) - Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott

River of Earth – James Still (1940) - River of Earth by James Still

A Memory called Empire – Arkady Martine (2019) - A Memory called Empire by Arkady Martine

Epic enemies to lovers and queer romance for The Chosen One - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

“The possibility of a botanist communicating with a tree was as thrilling as the possibility of a priest chatting with god.” - Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup

“In any event,” Percy went on, “what I had thought were principles were merely manners, and they’re utterly insufficient for my present circumstance.” - The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

A sweet romance anthology involving middle-aged characters. #CBRBINGO – Rec’d - Sweetest in the Gale (There's Something About Marysburg, #3) by Olivia Dade

To Play the King - King Richard: Nixon and Watergate, An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs

Abracadabra and Up Up and Away to adventure! - Cat & Cat V01 Adventures The Quest for Snacks by Susie Yi

The Greek Gods: Soap Opera 101 - Olympians V01 Zeus: King of the Gods by George O’Connor

Haunted. - Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

The Chase Is On - The Heathens by Ace Atkins

You had Frog and Toad, Winnie-the-Pooh, and The Wind in the Willows. Now you have Skunk and Badger - Skunk and Badger #2 Egg Marks the Spot by Amy Timberlake

Body Horror - The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson

There is a curse. They say: May you live in interesting times. - Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett

“Aren’t you that notorious bad girl April French?” - For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes

Do you still wish you had a river you could skate away on? - Blackwater: The complete saga by Michael McDowell

One Person Who Has Never Been in My Kitchen - Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman

The Danger of a Simple Story – Antebellum Version - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Longitude – Dava Sobel (1997) - Longitude by Dava Sobel

I think this is the first pre-apocalypse book I’ve ever read - A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet

Some of her best friends are cisgender….. - Gender Pirates: An Assigned Male Comics by Sophie Labelle; The Best of Assigned Male by Sophie Labelle

Every Last Fear, and the People Affected by True Crime Entertainment - Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

In A Foreign Field - Missionaries by Phil Klay

“Look. I realize you’re a complex individual. But let’s just say that cute’s definitely in there.” - Uncharted by Adriana Anders

Magic and dragons and Aunties oh my! - Tidesong by Wendy Xu

“What yesterday was sure footing is now unstable ground.” - Doggerland by Ben Smith

“Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein.” - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

It’s a sapphic scifi romance bodyguard novella.. enough said! - Glorious Day by Skye Kilaen

Too sweet, too pure… kinda - Cinnamon Roll by Anna Zabo

Each Unhappy Family is Unhappy in Its Own Way - Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

exactly what the blurb promises–a twisty political intrigue with a bit of ~magic~ - The Councillor by E.J. Beaton

seriously bereft that I read this so quickly and that there won’t be any more - Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

A bunch of hangry Bigfeet - Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

A fake oral history of a 1970s interracial rock duo. - The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

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