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4 Star Reviews

I’m Already Dead - iZombie Vol. 1: Dead to the World by Chris Roberson, Michael Allred

Honestly, It Sounds Pretty Great - The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell

Paranoia Paranoia Everybody’s Coming to Get Me - The Trespasser by Tana French

Family Secrets - Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan

No one belongs here more than you - Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown

The Nature of the Unknown - Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

What would happen if you tried to go home again? - No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts

A really boring review about a really funny book. - Bossypants by Tina Fey

a·sy·lum (noun): shelter or protection from danger. - Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” - A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Juliet Stevenson (narrator)

Read the Small Print! - Carnivores of Light and Darkness by Alan Dean Foster

Banned Book Week Selection: Are you kidding me this was the most challenged book of 2016? Has everyone lost their minds? - This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki

Slow to Start, But Picked Up in the Second Half - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Flavia the Mystery Solver Goes to Canada (Half Cannonball Completion!) - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley

Robert Gottlieb and the New York Times Book Review Can Kiss My Romance Reading Ass - Dating You Hating You by Christina Lauren

“When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, I don’t particularly feel like dying.” - The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola by Richard Preston

A Gamache Cannonball - The Beautiful Mystery (Inspector Gamache #8) by Louise Penny, Ralph Cosham (narrator)

Have you read the one about the lepidopterist and the taxidermist? - A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

Keep Going - What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Speaking of dilettantes - A Time for Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

The one with the horror convention. - Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8) by Jim Butcher

Nazis vs. Cthulu - Bitter Seeds, The Coldest War, Necessary Evil by Ian Tregillis

Kid-friendly take on DC’s finest - DC Super Hero Girls: Past Times at Super Hero High by Shea Fontana

I Think I Finally Love YA Again - The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

“The poems were cool. The best ones were like bombs, and when all the right words came together it was like an explosion.” - The Crossover, Booked by Kwame Alexander

“I fight every day, and too many times it’s just not enough and the fear wins. I’m so fucking weak and everything is so fucking intense and sometimes I really hate it…” - Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Animorphs twofer: One very silly, one very not. - The Underground (Animorphs, #17) & The Decision (Animorphs, #18) by K.A. Applegate

How to Bring Peace to Political Discourse in 2017 - The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides by Arnold Kling

If you think about it, we all have a fairy tale kind of life - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

An impressive depiction of a complex friendship spanning decades - The Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend; The Story of a New Name; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay; The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

Shhhhhh - Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain

A Nazi is a Nazi is a Nazi - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

My favorite part of year - A Kind of Freedom; Sing, Unburied, Sing by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton; Jesmyn Ward

Climate Change, in Spaaaaaace! - The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi, narrated by Wil Wheaton

Where’s my super suit? - Superhero Sewing by Lane Huerta

Apologies, Kindness, and the Best Nap. - Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Kamala says be kind. - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 7 by G. Willow Wilson

Get yourself a 24-hour lawyer. - Giant Days, Vol. 5 by John Allison

This is why I ignore invitations from people I haven’t spoken to in years… - In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

Two really weird, hilarious British memoirs by JR Ackerley - My Dog Tulip; Hindoo Holiday by JR Ackerley

I’m starting with the Man in the Mirror - Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard Reeves

A Novel That Made Me Add More Books to My Reading List - Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Meow. - Catwoman: When in Rome by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale

It all started with a private jet - Killer Summer (Walt Fleming Novel Book 3) by Ridley Pearson

It’s a love/hate relationship. - Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4) by Sarah J. Maas

More than Kin, less than kind - Among Thieves: A Tale of the Kin by Douglas Hulick

“Oh there ain’t no other way. Baby I was born this way.” - Monstress: Volume 1 by Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda

Who do you run to when there’s no one to trust? - The Farm by Tom Rob Smith

This book, I need y’all to read it so I can talk about it with someone! - Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) by Ada Palmer

Seven novellas, all are good, two are excellent. - Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon

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