Toward the end of November, during a warm spell, at around nine o’clock in the morning, a train of the Petersburg-Warsaw line was approaching Petersburg at full steam. - The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Things Are Dark on the Dark Side - Rule of Two (Star Wars: Darth Bane, Book 2) by Drew Karpyshyn
It’s a mystery to me but not the intended one - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Long Slog Continues Through Book Four - Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
Map porn - The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching
They Might Just Make It After All - The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Full Throttle – Another good short story collection from the Kings - Full Throttle by Joe Hill
We’ll Never be Perfect, But We Can Try to be Better - One Last Chance by Therese Beharrie
“There is nothing lonelier than fear.” - The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
Doesn’t Totally Hold Up, But Still Great - Brain Droppings by George Carlin
Darren, Texas Ranger - Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
… and Others Don’t – A Cautionary Tale - Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Home Videos - A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
Probably a must-read for any humans who have sex (and some who don’t! and just like learning!) - Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski
Don is back for another adventure, this time in parenting - The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion
He Said Butt! - Where is My Butt? by Donald Budge
They crested out on the bluff in the late afternoon sun with their shadows long on the sawgrass and burnt sedge… - Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
In The Spider’s Web - Wild Town by Jim Thompson
Morris is suffering from that affliction known as teetolalism. - Mr. Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo
Oddly comforting book - A Hug from Heaven by Anna Whiston-Donaldson
Greta showed Ed the letter as soon as he came in the door. - A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.” - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
“because for him to do nothing was to undermine his own dignity.” - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
As Unorthodox As It Was, This Was Her Version Of Dropping Her Mask - Hearts on Hold by Charish Reid
Were I to Pull Every Line that Made Me Gasp I Would be Quoting the Book in its Entirety - The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
Grandma Mazur is the star of Twisted Twenty-Six and I wouldn’t have it any other way - Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich
What Lies Beneath? - The Deep: A Novel of Terror Beneath the Sea by Michaelbrent Collings
“In order to keep him alive, we have had to forget his victims.” - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed By Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
Insurance cover for field trips must be hard to get… - Star Trek: Starfleet Academy by Mike Johnson & Ryan Parrott
“Beneath the modern political rhetoric and academic theories of history, I had an ancient hope that was indistinguishable from Spiritualism. If my edit took, maybe the good I’d done would outweigh the evil.” - The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
Monster, or just another kid? - Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri
The man in dark-blue slacks and forest-green sportshirt waited impatiently in the line. - The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith
The corporal cadet stepped out of the guard hut and squinted out over the field. - QBVII by Leon Uris
“This is a story of light and dark…” - Moth by Isabel Thomas
Wave After Wave, Slowly Drifting… - The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow
All Y’all’s Rave Reviews Finally Got Me - Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape.” - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Murder Most Fun - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Really made me crave some butter chicken - Tikka Chance on Me by Suleikha Snyder
Delightful Banter in Mid-Coastal Maine - Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
“She had a lifelong habit of extending care to animals too wild or frightened to accept it- which made her the bravest kind of fool.” - The Wallflower Wager (Girl Meets Duke #3) by Tessa Dare
A Charming Romp Through Victorian England - Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
The Swedish Maigret? Hah! - Cop Killer by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Zoom in as the scope expands - Cibola Burn (The Expanse Book 4) by James S A Corey
Blame it on the Monopoly game - My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
Forget superheroes; supervillains is where it’s at - Vengeful by V. E. Schwab
Literally, Off the Rails…and So, So Good! - Point Blank by Peter Vonder Haar
Having a Sister Sounds “Fun” - My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite
A familiar but not unwelcome story - Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre
“It’s amazing how brave you can be when you feel safe.” - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center