In which a shocking shift in tone and genre works wonderfully - Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
“I’m saying I think we could take care of each other.” - Method Acting by Adele Buck
Move over RuPaul there are new queens (and kings) in town - Kings, Queens and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteiu
“A kiss might be blameless, so long as it was the other person doing the leaning. Was it your fault, really, if someone else kissed you?” - The Portrait of a Mirror by A. Natasha Joukovsky
Perfume, Chocolate, and Spies - The Scent of Secrets by Jane Thynne
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
“We look after each other.” - The Companion by E.E. Ottoman
“I’m not distracted. I’m focused on what matters most.” - Love in Color by Bolu Babalola
Ghost in the Machine - U Up? by Cate Disabato
How the South Won the Civil War – Heather Cox Richardson (2020) - How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson
The Armies of the Night – Norman Mailer (1968) - The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
Blood Colony – Tananarive Due (2008) - Blood Colony by Tananarive Due
The Atmospherians – Alex McElroy (2021) - The Atmospherians by Lex McElroy
Time for the Stars – Robert A Heinlein (1956) - Time for the Stars by Robert A Heinlein
This was a fun series, you should read it - To Catch a Thief by Sloane Steele
Plural Marriage Made Interesting - The Wives by Tarryn Fisher
A comfortable, enjoyable conclusion to an overall fun trilogy - The Conjurer by Luanne G. Smith
Potentially Royally Unfair Tutoring - The Royal Tutor vol 13 by Higasa Akai
Ladies do buddy cop stuff in early 20th century steampunk Egypt - A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
“Breaking takes less effort than building, that is the way of the world.” - The Helm of Midnight by Marina J. Lostetter
Jerry World - My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
Mar(e)io of Rocksburg (Easttown) - The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes by K.C. Constantine
A science fiction anthology about time and the power of hope - I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories by Kim Bo-young
The Wife Between Us - The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
“I can’t excuse what he did next except by saying that he was very sorry for it afterward (and so were a good many other people).” - The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis
“Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.” - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
I’m a cat person, Beanie, but I still love you. - What’s Up Beanie?: Acutely Relatable Comics by Alina Tysoe
Family - Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up in My Immigrant Family? by Marisabina Russo
The Masks We Wear - Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
Reading a CBR Book Exchange Gift. Thanks again, andtheIToldYouSos! - Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
“One night. I just want one night of sleep”…”Is it that too much to to ask? One night where I don’t have to babysit or dig up a corpse?…” - The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson
So much fun it helped with my reading slump! - Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn
So Many Experiences and Stories All Tied into One - There There by Tommy Orange
Messin with Sasquatch - Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
A book I might have wanted to write for myself - The Councillor by E.J. Beaton
The Next-to-Last Time I was Shot Out of a Cannon (and other often strangely fantastical stories) - Fly Already by Etgar Keret
A weird book I had a lot of things to say about. - A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) by Deborah Harkness
In which we have an abundance of evidence that Tolkien *really* had a thing for eagles. - The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
An excellent anthology of disabled authors from a variety of perspectives. - Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century by ed. Alice Wong
“She had lifted me to her star…” - Olivia by Dorothy Strachey
Clearly I just need…different Greek myth retellings - Neon Gods by Katee Robert
OMG I just got it, she’s stuck on the Q train like the QUEER train is that it??? - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Happy Pride from Malaysia! - Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
A lighthearted and humorous historical romance - One Thing Leads to a Lover by Susanna Craig
When your vice becomes a virtue - A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
Cannonballing with Agatha. - 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7) by Agatha Christie
If Get Out and Midsommer Had a Book Baby - I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Saying goodbye to a favorite poet - The Historians by Eavan Boland
A tale of two stories - No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Alchemy Side Might Be Interesting - The Ancient Magus Bride: Wizard's Blue vol. 2 by Makoto Sanda, Isuo Tsukumo, Kore Yamazaki