Art is an incitement to look at our world through another’s eyes - How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
The Foulest Fowl - Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
“Like Digby himself said: The truth is almost always disappointing…” - Trouble Is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromley
“Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.” - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
“People always say I’m going to look back on these days and laugh — why put it off?” - The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke by Angela Nissel
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
1940s Hollywood Noir for $6 - The Fade Out: Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips
The Not-so Stereotypical Cheerleading Drama - Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
It Sucks She Has To Explain This, But She Does It So Well - You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
“The law cannot do it for us. We must do it for ourselves. Women in this country must become revolutionaries.” - Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace by Jessica Bennett
“He uses invisible radiation to turn himself into an asshole.” - Hold Me (Cyclone #2) by Courtney Milan
Spiritualism and the Great War - Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal
“BUT ENOUGH SPIRITUALITY. BACK TO TITS AND BAD DECISIONS.” - Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O'Brien
Cute, but not my fave. - Act Like It by Lucy Parker
Only two books left? Wow that went fast. - Vision in Silver (The Others, #3) by Anne Bishop
why is nk jemisin so good at words? - The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) by N.K. Jemisin
Not as good as the first book, but I still liked it. - Tower Lord (Raven's Shadow, #2) by Anthony Ryan
My favorite of these yet, but I can see the story starting to creak . . . - The Shadow Rising (Wheel of Time, #4) by Robert Jordan
Catherine Morland Seeks Her Own Gothic Novel - Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (Marvel Adaptations) by Nancy Butler, Janet Lee (illustrator)
Of course, no religion can prove that it is “true.” - Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
But who in hell was the joke really on? - Way Past Cool by Jess Mowry
Star Wormwood blazes and each one of you that steps out that door will be torn apart! - The Mist by Stephen King
There is some strange alchemy associated with gratitude. - Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol by Ann Dowsett Johnston
“Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars…” - Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
“[An] asshole in the old fashioned sense of asshole” - The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing by Gavin Edwards
Serious Dedication - When Nobody Was Watching by Carli Lloyd and Wayne Coffey
The Variants are evolving, breeding, speaking, kidnapping…… not good - Extinction End (Extinction Cycle Book 5) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Keeping up with the Kennedys … or what happens when you can’t - Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Sister by Kate Clifford Larson
You Will End Up Reading this in Sue’s Voice - Spectacles by Sue Perkins
A great book for a VERY niche audience (of which I am not technically a part). - The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning by Simcha Fisher
How much of you can fall off before something important is lost? - I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
I blame everybody on this website for my nightmare after I finished this book. - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Haters gonna hate - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
The war’s over (for now) - The Human Division, The End of All Things (Old Man's War #5,6) by John Scalzi
College baseball, without Linklater, with the White Whale - The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Is it just me, or it the title never mentioned in the book? - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Anna Should Be So Lucky - The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
A Worthy Tribute - Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller (Editor), Mort Castle (Editor), Margaret Atwood , Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman , Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman , Kelly Link, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Audrey Niffenegger , Ray Bradbury, Jay Bonansinga , David Morrell ,Thomas F. Monteleone , Lee Martin, Dan Chaon, John McNally , Joe Meno , Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, John Maclay, Gary A. Braunbeck, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Charles Yu, Julia Keller, Bayo Ojikutu
A Constellation of Tales - The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales by Dominik Parisien (editor)
A non-European Based Fantasy - Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
A worthy entry in a children’s literature trend - Somewhere, Among by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu
A lot for Chicagoans to consider. - The South Side: A Portrait of American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore
“I’m not too good when exposed to people” - Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Another longer-than-anticipated reviewing hiatus ended! - Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai
From the Siege of Chicago to the Recent Past - The Nix by Nathan Hill
Like the Great Movie Ride in Book Form - Filmish: A Graphic Journey through Film by Edward Ross
Surprisingly funny - Soulless by Gail Carriger
Not my favorite Irving, but still a good one - The Cider House Rules by John Irving
You know what I, as Rowell’s newest and biggest fan, am going to say. - Midnights by Rainbow Rowell
John Scalzi is reliably fascinating - Lock In by John Scalzi