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4 Star Reviews

This is America - Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

A Child’s Introduction to Pure Evil - Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth - Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

I never meet a Tomie book I didn’t appreciate - Let the Whole Earth Sing Praise by Tomie dePaola

“They don’t tell you that hurt travels at light-speed too.” - Nyxia by Reintgen, Scott

The Marriage Trap - The Widows of Malabar Hill: A Perveen Mistry Novel Book 1 by Sujata Massey

A delightful read for at home by yourself - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

I wish I had read this before I had my toxic relationship - Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up Me by Mariko Tamaki

Step By Step - Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman

“I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn’t really hit you, and then when it does, that’s when you feel like sh**.” - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

When Everyone Was Fast Asleep a Cat woke them up…. - When Everyone Was Fast Asleep by Tomie dePaola

Bring me all your British royalty fan fic - Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape - Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill, Lisa Pulitzer

A Story in Seven Parts - Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

Two Cute Stories - The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory; The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

A promising start to a new series - King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

Captain Marvel is pretty awesome in comics form too - Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists; Captain Marvel: Down by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists; Avengers Assemble: The Enemy Within by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists; Avengers Assemble: Infinity by Kelly Sue De Connick and assorted artists

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.” - Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

They were not angry: they said such things to each other as they laughed - Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

I always feel like somebody’s watching me/ And I have no privacy/ Woah, I always feel like somebody’s watching me - You by Caroline Kepnes

“The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.” - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell

Better on a Re-Read - The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin

But none speaks with a single voice. None with a voice free from the old vibrations - Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy reteam for a m/m romance 4 years after “Him.” But is it any good? - Top Secret by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy

Untested Triple-Threat-ish - Indian-ish by Priya Krishna

Cannonballing with an Alyssa Cole book I enjoyed very much. - An Unconditional Freedom (The Loyal League, #3) by Alyssa Cole

I was rooting for the whale. - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

A pretty good follow up to Sorcerer to the Crown, even if I did predict everything. - The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal, #2) by Zen Cho

A multi-voiced anthology of original texts, translations and responses - Migrant Shores: Irish, Moroccan and Galician Poetry by Manuela Palacios

“when you’re between two shores and no one can see you, you don’t really exist at all.” - A List of Cages by Robin Roe

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World - Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney

Oh all the world is a little queer, except thee and me, and sometimes, I wonder about thee. - The Bone People by Keri Hulme

Oh, it’s terrible to be dead. - R.U.R. by Karel Capek

“Whoever said running in the morning gives you energy never had a day job that involves customer service.” - You by Caroline Kepnes

A Sweet Slow Burn - Teach Me by Olivia Dade

Get your head out of the clouds and gaze at this! - Stargazing by Jen Wang

“A refrigerator is not a moose” - The Sad Little Fact by Jonah Winter

“I firmly believe that all human families are full of crazy people, and if your family doesn’t appear to have any, then there’s a high probability you lack situational awareness.” - The World's Largest Man by Harrison Scott Key

The Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen Show - The Wolf, The Duck & The Mouse by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen; Triangle by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen; Square by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen; Circle by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

Rex and Ranger Have a Sleepover - Hard Core Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich

B*tch better have my money - Happy Go Money by Melissa Leong

Not only did I like the book, but I discovered her excellent music as well - How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't by Lane Moore

I would like the next one to be released ASAP, please? - The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not - Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide

Solid Advice for New Managers and Leaders - HBR Guide to Coaching Employees by Harvard Business Review

I’m Glad I Read It But I Wish Someone Else Had Written It - Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

In which it turns out that I DO like kissing books - Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it back - Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

A (not so) funny thing happened on the way to writing this review - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

We can’t learn from people we don’t have a relationship with. - A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D

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