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4 Star Reviews

She was going to have to kick a bunch of aunties out of their [redacted] fairy-tale meadow. - Open House by Ruby Lang

My lecture ended. - At Dusk by Hwang Sok-yong

Waiting for Tom Hanks (a.k.a shut up Annie you don’t deserve a movie star) - Waiting for Tom Hanks (Waiting for Tom Hanks, #1) by Kerry Winfrey

All the Elements of Classic King - The Institute by Stephen King

Knight or Dragon? - All's Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson

There be Pirates, Ghosts (Pirate Ghosts) and some wild adventures - Ghost Island (Choose Your Own Adventure: Dragonlark) by Shannon Gilligan

Don’t Take The Memories - The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

Great Start to Series - Cover Her Face by P.D. James

Potentially Familiar Beginning Leads to a Creative and Intriguing World - An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

It’s about being the flipper, not the pinball. - Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks

I read three thrillers about people getting murdered in remote areas — while attending a wedding in the literal woods - The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager ; A Dark Lure (Dark Lure #1) by Loreth Anne White; The Dark Bones (Dark Lure #2) by Loreth Anne White

Free Spirit Holly Golightly, Forever a Cipher - Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Under the broad gate there was no one else, just a single cricket clinging to a huge red pillar. - Rashomon and Seventeen Stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke

I am named after my mother’s unhappiness. - Evvie Drakes Starts Over by Linda Holmes

Why would a mother do this? - To the Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann

One never knows when the blow may fall. - The Third Man by Graham Greene

Ah Memories - The Lost Night by Andrea Baartz

Would have liked there to be a stronger romance element - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

CBRBingo – Science! Not new science, but new-ish to me - Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

The Uninvited: Ghosts Like Us - The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle

…when we were infinite. - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Miss Marple Solves It Again (and Again and Again) - Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie

How to get a book banned in six easy steps - The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Refreshingly Cool - To Build A Fire by Christophe Chaboute

A Regency romance with a very foul-mouthed parrot - The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

Debut novel worth noting (Cannonball and Bingo Blackout) - Oksana, Behave! by Maria Kuznetsova

Last Square for the Blackout! Also, a great Halloween read. - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Memory oppresses me. - The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

Nevermind that he is only a memo from the offices of fear. - At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver

The Revolutionary War in Three Volumes - Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick; Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick; In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick

Less is more…. I’m so sorry, I just couldn’t help myself. - Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Cause baby now we got bad blood - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

They sat silently together. - Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

I both love and can’t handle mysteries - The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

Let’s hang around together and read some bat-tastic books! - Rufus: The Bat Who Loved Colors by Tomi Ungerer

A historical romance involving smuggling, lady doctors, an escape heist and a daring rescue operation - A Rogue by Night by Kelly Bowen

Expanding Horizons - The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (Author), Simon Bruni (Translator)

Social Media: “They’re Using Our Pain For Their Gain!” - Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

Not only it a sin to kill a Mockingbird, it would be a sin to miss this! - To Kill a Mockingbird: Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham

Walking 54 miles for freedom - March: Book Three by John Lewis

I am determined to leave town all caught up on reviews - Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren; The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings #1) by Mackenzi Lee ; The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings #2) by Mackenzi Lee ; Final Girls by Riley Sager

Stay with me – what if the library was evil? - Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

Burned Through Like Balefire - The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso; The Defiant Heir by Melissa Caruso; The Unbound Empire by Melissa Caruso

Not Steve Rogers, but dammit I liked him anyway - Say My Name (Devil's Bastards MC) by Aviva Blakeman

Don’t worry. I’m a trained nurse. - Misery by Stephen King

A Delicious Mix of New Knowledge and Old Belief - Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

Who’s Up for a Day at the Races? - The Fine Cotton Fiasco by Peter Hoysted, Pat Sheil

Great Horror Book, but Definitely Dated - A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson

A different idea on [redacted for spoiler] - Recursion by Blake Crouch

Non-Fiction Roundup - Life Among the Savages (Jacksons #1) by Shirley Jackson; #IMomSoHard by Kristin Hensley, Jen Smedley; Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson; Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life by Amanda Stern ; Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

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