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4 Star Reviews

‘One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry,’ explained his host didactically. - Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

A Dream On - Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey by Alice Robb

What do you need more? A good book or a good hug? How about a book ABOUT a hug? - I Need a Hug by Aaron Blabey

26 ways to say Love - L Is for Love: A Heartfelt Alphabet by Greg Paprocki

Biking in a Winter Wonderland - Chirri & Chirra, the Snowy Day by Kaya Doi

as long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking - Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

I’ve read this story before, and so have you (but it’s still pretty great) - Normal People by Sally Rooney

Kyoto, mon amour - The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata

Best read with a pint of IPA and a Rolling Stones record on the turntable. - In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin

A strong finish to this series about magical oppression. - Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, #3) by Jonathan Stroud

The More Things Change & The Weird Wild West - How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ; Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman

Sleeves and stacks - Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan

He might fear God, but he still loves boobs. - Jane Doe: A Novel by Victoria Helen Stone

Better than most - Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A sweet tea of a story - Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d – Precocious Mystery Fun Times - Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley

Who would have thought that something that happened that long ago could have such power? - Lucky by Alice Sebold

Laundry and Ghosts are Currently Tied for First - Sheets by Brenna Thummler

Goes Down Easy - My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren

GRRM procrastinates again - Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin

I joined the crowd - Educated by Tara Westover

Cheating Death Never Ends Well - Vicious by VE Schwab

It’s a terrible life. - The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa

Window Books and Mirror Books (or Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose) - Patina (Track - Book 2) by Jason Reynolds; Sunny (Track - Book 3) by Jason Reynolds; Lu (Track - Book 4) by Jason Reynolds

Each day had been more stormy than the last. - Who was Changed and Who was Dead by Barbara Comyns

Of course, that was the whole point of the re-enactment, that we ourselves became the ghosts… - Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

would you say it’s time for our viewers to crack open each other’s skulls? - The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

Espionage: First as Farce, Then As Tragedy - The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carré

If you find me mainlining a baguette in February, this is why - The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom by Melissa Hartwig

Have you ever seen a town fall? - Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

Magically Delightful - Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Beneath the facade of glitz and glamour - The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent? - The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq

Passing with flying color - Penguin Flies Home by Lita Judge

It’s mid-January, how am I already so far behind? - Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

She thought that maybe, just maybe, if she was beautiful, things would get better - The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good… - The Delinquent Housewife! 1 by Nemu Yoko (translated by David Musto)

Is It Really So Wrong? - Cheating: Ethics in Everyday Life by Deborah L. Rhode

Exactly What I Was Looking For - Natural Solutions to PCOS: How to Eliminate Your Symptoms & Boost Your Fertility by Marilyn Glenville, Ph.D

Au Revoir les Enfants - Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

How I Learned to Accept my Hangover - A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present by Mark Forsyth

Kind of Jealous I Didn’t Apply for that Rhodes Scholarship - My Oxford Year by Julia Wheelan

Kick butts, eat nuts. - The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North & Erica Henderson

“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic” — Alex Haley - The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

An insider’s look at video game development - Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games by Walt Williams

The academic research paper of fiction - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

What a weird little book - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Sharpe I can make you a captain, but I cannot keep you a captain. - Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell

Give me a dollar or I’ll spit on you. - There's A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar

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