Messy Family Dynamics - Grown Ups by Marian Keyes
“Is Tommy Lee Jones 20 or 100 in this movie?” - Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
When enough is enough – you can’t keep it on the inside anymore. - Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
“We are never feckless”, I told her coldly. “We are full to the brim with feck.” - An Unexpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn
Finally getting around to reading this–it’s not nearly as difficult as I thought! - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
enjoyable book made great by an unorthodox ending - The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth
“We were salt and sand and sea and storm” - Namesake by Adrienne Young
A retelling of a classic, but are these the right secondary characters to focus on? - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Field Guide to Queendom - How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole
A Soaptastic Ending to a Soaptastic Series - Serving Sin by Angelina M. Lopez
Beauty & Cruelty - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
out of the way, Mr. Hughes. Let the real stars shine. - Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth
FULL of heart and love - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune
A welcome return to form - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
“Because everything is better with you” - Learned Reactions by Jayce Ellis
What do you do with a girl like Afi? - His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
“What a fool. What a destructive, romantic, ridiculous act. It was always a certain kind of ass who approached love like that”. - Harrow the Ninth: The Locked Tomb trilogy vol. 2 by Tamsyn Muir
Hotel Life - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Book So Nice, He Named It Thrice - New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation by Thomas Dyja
Giant-Sized Fun - Giant Sized X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman
A Good Start - X-Men Volume 1 by Jonathan Hickman
The X-Men are weird again… and good? - House of X - Powers of X Trade Paperback by Jonathan Hickman with Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva
Getting Back in the High Fantasy Game - The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson
Why is it so short T-T T-T - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Abolition, Not Reform - We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba
Short, snappy collection of short stories on wuv - Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Avoiding the end but it’s not quite the end - The Unbound Empire by Melissa Caruso
A small part of the immense universe - To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Ask the Opposite - In the Company of Killers by Bryan Christy
Great book; awful characters - The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
A SecUnit’s work is never done - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
all ABOARD! - Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
…but you can’t pick your family. - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
“There is still a real life to be lived, there are still real things to be done.” - No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Slight downer, but nothing serious - Network Effect by Martha Wells
The Vanities Bonfire - The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques
“It feels like I gave up my arms to make way for wings.” - Forever His Champion by Marie Lipscomb
this book has been kicking around for 30ish years and I just picked it up NOW?! - Possession by A.S. Byatt
laughing to keep from crying - We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff
How fast after a book is published is too soon to post a review? - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
A satisfying end to the year’s re-read - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
Pacific Dreams - Five Decembers by James Kestrel
“Stories change with the tellers.” - The Conductors by Nicole Glover
Modern Day Epistolary Romances - Call Me Maybe by Cara Bastone; Sweet Talk by Cara Bastone
Smile Through the Pain - Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (2021) - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
We have reached the throwing things stage - Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Oh, ever in the greening spring… - The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Familiar and New Sci Fi - Binti: the Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
Manic murderous imposter syndrome dream construct - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells