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4 Star Reviews

Fun, if insubstantial - It's all your fault by Paul Rudnick

Didion ain’t no slouch - Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Memories and those that make them with us - In a Jar by Deborah Marcero

How Can You Come Up With A Better Title Than ‘Little Weirds’? - Little Weirds by Jenny Slate

Fun with Classics and Art - Andy Warhol What Colors Do You See? Board Book by Mudpuppy ; Bookish Cats Board Book by Mudpuppy

I had never seen war, or even talked of it at length with someone who had, but I was young and knew something of violence… - The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe

Yay for grown-up romance! - Headliners (London Celebrities #5) by Lucy Parker

Another childhood book appropriate for the season - Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome

Siths Have More Fun - Dynasty of Evil (Star Wars: Darth Bane, Book 3) by Drew Karpyshyn

“For the old Kentucky home far away” - The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

Swashbuckling fantasy - Lily the Thief by Janne Kukkonen

From two masters of the graphic novel - The Eternal Smile: Three Stories by Gene Luen Yang

You’ll probably not be surprised but I liked this book a lot - Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia

One Odd Dog to Go - Odd Dog Out by Rob Biddulph

“Words! Words! I’m so sick of words!” - The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine

A Literary Dystopia with a Humorous Twist - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

All the Time Travel in the World Can’t Save the People You Love - Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

A Heavenly Love Story - The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Ye’ll maybe find a use for yourself. - Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon

A problem of too much cake and spoilers - The Big Book of Amazing Cakes by The Baking Show Team

Humour with a deep understanding of Hollywood - Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

You Had One Rule, Just the One - Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

People are Not Tools to be Used - Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha) by Tasha Suri

When reading replaces all of your plans for the weekend - The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

I like you - Love Poems (for Married People) by John Kenney

“In the end, the courage of women can’t be stamped out. And stories – the big ones, the true ones – can be caught but never killed.” - Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

A ghost story, almost-horror-novel-but-not, for people who don’t really like ghost stories or horror. And people who do! - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

He’s cunning. He’s brilliant… He is a Cat - Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat Volume 1 by Johnny Marciano

crystalclear picked a good one! - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The continuing adventures of critters you wouldn’t expect to care about - Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Calling all Renn Faire Nerds! - Well Met by Jen DeLuca

“That’s the truth about making mistakes, about making wrong choices. You live with them, and if you’re lucky you get enough perspective to see where you went astray. “ - Luck of the Draw (Chance of a Lifetime #2) by Kate Clayborn

“So.” She drummed her fingers on the book. “You’re a grown man who still reads ghost and monster stories.” - The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher; The Whisper Man by Alex North; Verity by Colleen Hoover; A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill

Fun tale of female revenge - The Swallows by Lisa Lutz

All hail Karen, queen of the mic drop book ending. - One of Us is Next by Karen M McManus

Freaks, Geeks, and Automobiles - Role Models by John Waters

“Men are everywhere. If I ran away from here, there would be more men all over the world.” - Dead Girls by Abigail Tarttelin

“If you get killed in America, there is a 38 percent chance your killer won’t be caught.” - Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen

Love, Hound Dogs and Country Music - Dear Hank Williams by Kimberly Willis Holt

I read this one too slow - The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Re-reading a classic: 1984 in 2020 - 1984 by George Orwell

There Are a Million Stories in the Naked City of Baltimore - Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

Grandparenting is the balancing act of having done it all before but having never really done it - Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting by Anna Quindlen

Shades of Gray - Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green

“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

Let’s Start of the Year With a Little Non-Fiction - A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation by Tim Hannigan

Make Samosa, Do Good in the World - The Kitchen without Borders: Recipes and Stories from Refugee and Immigrant Chefs by The Eat Off Beat Chefs, Siobhan Wallace, Penny De Los Santos

I kind of want to read a book about this book - In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri

Sis Boom Bah - Dare Me by Megan Abbott

“It was in my hair, Severian, ” Dorcas said. - Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe

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  • yesknopemaybe
    on It’s true, they do do that
    I just read this and the sequel, really enjoyed both!
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    on Cannonball Read 18 Holiday Book Exchange
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    on Cannonball Read 18 Holiday Book Exchange
    I had such a good time driving down to Nowhere Book Shop to get books for you! It’s so much...
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    on Aaaaarrrrrggghh!
    As I recall, most of the theories that answered all the questions were supernatural and got into Irish mythology. I...
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    on Aaaaarrrrrggghh!
    It could be fun to track down theories. There’s something supernatural hinted at, though that wouldn’t be satisfying to me...
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