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4 Star Reviews

Yet another book to save for when you’re not hungry - The Professor Next Door by Jackie Lau

Ghostbusting doesn’t so much make them feel good as is absolutely necessary to fix a foolish mistake they made - Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega

Code Switching Times Two - The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

You help me slay my dragons and I’ll help you slay yours. - The Dating Playbook by Farrah Rochon

No Such Thing as the Perfect Crime - Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze

Women’s pain manifested as madness - Animal by Lisa Taddeo

Fun, fun, fun! - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

I want to go to the Irish countryside now, but ONLY to visit - The Searcher by Tana French

Titus smiled, “I met the woman I’m going to marry.” - Witch Please by Ann Aguirre

The Arc of a Scythe was a welcome surprise - Scythe by Neal Shusterman; Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman; The Toll by Neal Shusterman

Hacker Adventure with a Kitty - Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

Back the beginning in the underworld - Yuyu Hakusho vol 1 by Yoshihiro Togashi

Violently in love - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Your senses are your greatest enemies; they will be waiting to betray you. - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

This book gave me *a yearning*. #CBRBINGO – Flora - A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky Chambers

Why does everyone just accept everything the AI says? - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

You just remember what your old pal said (Girl), you’ve got a friend in me - Making Friends V01 by Kristen Gudsnuk

“Just because it is in Malibu’s nature to burn, so was it in one particular person’s nature to set fire and walk away.” - Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Just the right level of Creep - Famous Last Words by Katie Alender

Trust your friends - Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

I am a little obsessed with this loaf of bread - Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty, Simple by Dorie Greenspan

What a rollercoaster… - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

In the cold clear light of day down here, everyone’s a monster - The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

A Japanese Girl in a Celtic World - The Ancient Magus Bride vol. 14 by Kore Yamazaki

Crowns, and Kings, and Grisha things, maybe a few too many - Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

“That is the significant part of telling our own stories: by doing so, we demonstrate our cultural continuance.” - Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Volumes 1-3 by Hope Nicholson, Elizabeth LaPensee, and Michael Sheyahshe, editors

Dresden short stories made for enjoyable health stomps - Side Jobs by Jim Butcher

“My heart is so much more than it once was, even if it now beats outside my chest.” - The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

Angels of Punching You in the Face - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Home Before Dark - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Romancing the To-Do List - The Stand-In by Lily Chu

Growing up brown in Norway is no picnic - Hør Her'a! (Listen here!) by Gulraiz Sharif

Persisted - The Watergate Girl by Jill Wine-Banks

A hilarious and cheeky take on who Jesus (Joshua) was growing up, before becoming the Messiah - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Can’t eat foods with a kick? Then kick back and read about it! - No Kimchi for Me by Aram Kim; Babies Can’t Eat Kimchee by Nancy Patz

Johnson isn’t all Wet - Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton

“I’m not sure what the difference is between sleeping and time travel” - Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson

“There is nothing nice about Southern ladies!” - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

I know I always complain about book series that don’t have an end BUT I WANT MORE - Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman

Definitely an old series–that holds up really well - Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar; Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar; Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger by Louis Sachar; Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar

…for in that direction she saw a quiet by preventable tragedy, if only people could be brave enough to go after what they really wanted. - The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

Burnout, or, Why to Stick It to the Man - Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski; Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski

But she was color. All the color he had. - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Had his retinas not been seared by the Christmas tree dress, her dinner gown would have been the most outlandish thing he witnessed today. - Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas

“The Only Currency More Powerful than Money in this World is the Violence of Man.” - Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu

“Stranger, Whoever you are, Open this to learn what will amaze you” - Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthoy Doerr

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - Needful Things by Stephen King

Black Lives Matter in Norway too - Eg snakkar om det heile tida (I talk about it all the time) by Camara Lundestad Joof; Ikkje ver redd sånne som meg (Don't be afraid of people like me) by Sumeya Jirde Ali

The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman (1962) - The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

Ah, the difficulties of shrugging off expectations - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

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