“But all’s well that ends well, and if your adventure is successful, all those little problems you had will soon become very funny to you indeed.” - Nell of Gumbling: My Extremely Tiny Forest Adventure by Emma Steinkellner
Three Photobook Reviews - Say, Is This the U.S.A. by Erskine Caldwell & Margaret Bourke-White; The Quake of '89 by News Staff of the San Francisco Chronicle; Earth Angels: Migrant Children in America by Nancy Buirski
A Nicely Done Cookbook - Dinner in One Take by Bo Corley
“We’re alive!” - Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
“She might be less than what she had once been, but she was still worth a hell of a lot.” - Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
“Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders.” - Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
Creature Cats get Cozy - Yokai Cats vol. 1 by Pandania
Infinity War – But Even Better - Wicked Problems by Max Gladstone
Cozy Mystery in a Quirky Florida Coffeeshop - Cold Brew Corpse by Tara Lush
Updating the classics - Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin
Quick Thinking (Also: yay, full cannonball!) - Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Love & Football - The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata
Here’s How to Identify a Werewolf: They’re the Ones That Never Grow Up - Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
“a human looking glass: the light cast by fame bounced off her, and back on to those facing her” CBRBINGO – Golden - Q: A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown
“No one told me the trail would be vertical.” “Maggie, there are sheep hanging out all around us. Sheep don’t do vertical.” “Sheep are very nimble. They’re basically puffy goats.” - Bad Reputation by Emma Barry
Free the Press. Free the Truth - Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp
Corey’s faith - Visitations by Corey Egbert
The Houseguest From Hell - A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Yeah, I see why the Wachowski’s were interested in this book - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
“I suppose one has to have lived in the U.S.S.R. to know what a priceless treasure security is.” - Liberation — Russian Style by Ada Halpern
Woman, Mother, Interpreter, Spy - A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe
Destiny? Maybe… - Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through - The Lightning Bottles by Marissa Stapley
“‘Madam.’ He frowned at her. ‘I am a butler. Do you truly believe that I do not know how to dispatch a houseguest if required?'” CBRBINGO – Horses - A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Be Cool, Sodapop - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
If ever there was a person who could make me say “what the hell” and simply live my best life for a single night, it would be the tatted goddess Shae - Love and Sportsball by Meka James
Somehow I’m Neither Here Nor There - Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
The Spy Zoo - The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
Connections and Questions - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
The girl who won’t quit - Asadora!, Volume 8 by Naoki Urasawa
Don’t Mean to Spy - Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
None: pau - Pau: The Last Song of the Kaua’i ‘o’o by Tony Piedra
The not so good review because I lost the original review that also has good online images because I guess I didn’t take a picture of my book - Brooms by Jasmine Walls
Marketed as a thriller, but it really isn’t - Don't Forget the Girl by Rebecca McKanna
“ He left you the fortune, Avery, and all he left us is you.” - The Inheritance Games: A Novel by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Found Family with Spies, Killers, and Secrets but It’s Cozy - Spy X Family Family Portrait by Aya Yajima, Tatsuya Endo
Rom com + murder mystery + wedding = chaos - Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto
A great addition to its genre (but you’re better off not knowing what it is) - The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
Who’s Holding The Phone? - Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
“The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly dead.” - The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark
Evil Wins by Controlling the Narrrative? - Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
Be Careful What You Wish For - The Invisible Life of Addie Laroux by V.E. Schwab
A Novel About Race, Identity, and Satire - Erasure by Percival Everett
Hustled - Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien
“In headlines and news copy, we call them “the mentally ill.” In truth, they are our mothers and fathers, our brothers and sisters. They are us.” - While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” - Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
This whole race of aliens forgot how to have children. CBRBINGO – Celestial - The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
Sug y Saeson - The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh
“Don’t stop beginning. Begin and begin and begin. Begin endlessly—that is, without the taint of even eventual ending.” - All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
“…all you can truly say of any historical event … is that ‘something happened.’” - The Sense of an Ending: A Novel by Julian Barnes