“Where I live, there is always someone driving slowly on the road ahead.” - Coventry by Rachel Cusk
“‘You do see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’” - Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
“‘They’re shooting the party scene outside at night,’ I was told.” - I Used to Be Charming by Eve Babitz
The Curse of Being At Near Maximum Capacity of Chins While in France - The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas
“When Franklin D roosevelt was President-elect there must have been sculptors all over America who wanted a chance to model his head from life, but my mother had connections.” - Liars in the Love by Richard Yates; Uncollected Stories by Richard Yates
“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
Making all things Death interesting, with Pictures - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty
She didn’t end the book talking about butt stuff, and that’s important. - You Can't Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson
By the time you receive this, we’ll be gone. - The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
Reads Like a Thriller - Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
Client testimonial: Experts of the Laugh Lab taught ME how to be funny! They can help YOU, too! - The Joke Machine: Create Your Own Jokes and Become Instantly Funny! by Theresa Julian
Harrowing - Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Short Bites of Hope - Prem Numbers: A Short Story Collection by Suleikha Snyder
“All Miss Price had been told about the new boy was that he’d spent most of his life in some kind of orphanage…” - Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
F**k Yeah - F**k No! How to stop saying yes when you can’t, you shouldn’t, or you just don’t want to by Sarah Knight
What’s so great about the Jedi, anyway? - Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane, Book 1) by Drew Karpyshyn
A bunch of gay as hell space books - The Disasters by M.K. England; A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine; Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear; The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz; Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone; The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling; Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers; A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
Hawaii is for lovers - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
A book Susan Eaddy and Lucy Fleming made - Eenie Meenie Halloweenie by Susan Eaddy
Bad Gladwell is still Gladwell - Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
A light and fun read to round out the year - Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
ghost stories with a history lesson or two - The Vine that Ate the South by J.D. Wilkes
Hunky blue aliens to the rescue - Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon
In 2005, Someone Was Worried the Lesbians Would Take Over RWA - A Little Light Mischief: A Turner Novella by Cat Sebastian
When your cookies get spooky - Cookie Boo by Ruth Paul
The First Rule… - The Kill Club by Wendy Heard
Please Mary, may I have some more? - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Concluding the Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles. Volume 28 - Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 28 by CLAMP
The culmination of nine books of story. - How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9) by Louise Penny
John Wayne Meets Marvel - Hawkeye, Volume 4: Rio Bravo by Matt Fraction
If you haven’t read Star Wars: Bloodline, you might want to before reading this one. - Star Wars: Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse
This whole book is one big WTF moment. - Confessions by Kanae Minato
An oral history of a fictional 1970s rock band. Do the audio if you can. - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
That rare beast, a great final book. - The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3) by Neal Shusterman
Wrapping Up 2019 (More Books Read Than Reviewed) - American Like Me by America Ferrera; Becoming by Michelle Obama; Lab Girl by Hope Jahren; So Big by Edna Ferber; They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill us by Hanif Abdurraqib
“I hate to be sanctimonious about it, but it turns out that good conversation solves a great many problems.” - That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston
Triple Cannonballing with The Sandman. - The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman
“You’re in a world full of color and you want to see it in black and white.” - The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2) by Philip Pullman
::hangs large flashing neon sign saying “MORE PEOPLE READ K.J. CHARLES” over the top of this review:: - Gilded Cage (The Lilywhite Boys, #2) by K.J. Charles
Ain’t No Party Like an Octavia Butler Writer’s Workshop - Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Sugar, Spice, and Things that go Bump in the Night - Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
One of the very few cases where I like the plot better than the romance. - A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2) by K.J. Charles
A slow read in a slow week… - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
“Breakfast with the Borgias.” - A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7) by Agatha Christie
I’m horrible - American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer; The Institute by Stephen King; Mountain Man by Keith C. Blackmore; In Distant Lands: A Short History of the Crusades by Lars Brownworth
Through the grieving process - Bon Voyage, Mister Rodriguez by Christiane Duchesne; The Immortal Jellyfish by Sang Miao
Triple the fun - Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
Ghosts that haunt us still - Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng
Love triangles, magic, and murder - Grave Visions by Kalayna Price; Grave Ransom by Kalayna Price
European Heiress + Sociopathy = Madame Masque - Hawkeye, Volume 3: L.A. Woman by Matt Fraction