No Brothers Left, and There’ll Be No More After Me - Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor; Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor; Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor
These Virtues are Formed in Man by His Doing the Actions - Severance by Ling Ma
It’s Worse Than That; He’s Dead, Jim. - Redshirts by John Scalzi
Summer in the Sea Section - Calipso by David Sedaris
“Sparing another person is a tricky thing. It’s easy to think you’re succeeding when you’re failing spectacularly.” - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
If there is a whale, there is a way - Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly; Heartbeat by Evan Turk.
Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and cried, ‘Jack, you have debauched my sloth.’ - HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brien
“War eats the victors last.” - Iron Gold (Red Rising #4) by Pierce Brown
A good first snow is magical for sure - First Snow by Bomi Park
Prince Sebastian would like to introduce you to himself, Lady Crystallia - The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
How Many Ghosts Does a House Hold? - The Looking-Glass Portrait by Linda Hilton
Beginning of the end, in which a series redeems itself - Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Legends by Lydia Sherrer
A mixed bag - Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen
When we came to the end, we loved it - Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Freshening up tired old tropes - Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
The wise sense what is to come - The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation by C.P. Cavafy
Every Pride and Prejudice retelling is an excuse to post Firth gifs - Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
In the immortal words of Dorothy Zbornak, “If you have to ask, it does not matter.” - Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
“Deciding to spend your life together shouldn’t be a surprise” - The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
Literary Jazz - Jazz by Toni Morrison
She loved him, though not at this particular moment. - The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Call and Answer - Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
Dolly Parton, pageants, and a boy named Bo - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
The Murder Subplot Didn’t Work - The Last Time I Was Me by Cathy Lamb
A Strong 3.5 Star Book - Tis the Season to be Single by Laura Ziepe
Donkey, where are you???????? - The Donkey Egg by Janet Stevens
So much world to be explored - The Shadowed Sun by N. K. Jemisin
No Sophomore Slump Here - On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Hotel Confidential - Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky
“but safe in sound you’ll go to sleep” - Nighttime Symphony by Timbaland
“You take one accident, why, that’s too bad. Everybody’s sorry. Poor Nell.” - Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong
…But Like So Many Unfortunate Events In Life, Just Because You Don’t Understand It, Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t So - The Bad Beginning, Book The First by Lemony Snicket
The best LGBTQ romance series I’ve read, despite all the hockey (dear god, so much hockey) - Breakaway by Avon Gale; Save of the Game by Avon Gale; Power Play by Avon Gale; Empty Net by Avon Gale; Coach’s Challenge by Avon Gale
The Heathen were a daily household preoccupation. - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
…a place of knowledge, that is nonjudgmental, inclusive, and fundamentally kind. - The Library Book by Susan Orlean
“That’s because pizza is a precious natural resource. It can heal tiredness, bad mood, falling morale, and a fading will to live. Pizza realigns the heart chakras.” - 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
Take That Nuss Rewman, Ph.D., J.D. - A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and on-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place by Eric Abrahamson, David H. Freeman
Read it, like a child, into the night - Melmoth by Sarah Perry
Avoid the man-eating walking dead that periodically drag themselves out of a fetid lake - Broxo by Zack Giallongo
Obviously white Canadians feel more loyalty towards white foreigners than they do to us Canadians. - Obasan by Joy Kogawa
When you’re young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you - Transit by Anna Seghers
B. A. Paris knows how to write a thriller! - Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
“Silence is the only privacy.” - All Rights Reserved (Word$, 1) by Gregory Scott Katsoulis
Everybody please read this so I can have somebody to talk to about it. - Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) by Marlon James
A little Dollop will do ya - Dollop and Mrs. Fabulous by Jennifer Sattler
Completely mis-titled, he was a very nice guy - Not So Nice Guy by R.S. Grey
Shut up, Shinji - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.k. Rowling
“who hurt you once before, so far beyond repair” - The Nature of the Beast (Inspector Gamache #11) by Louise Penny
A Nice Peek at Peter & Nightingale - The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch
Diets Don’t Work - The Metabolic Storm, 2nd Edition by Emily Cooper