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4 Star Reviews

Would Have Loved To Not Need This Book - Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD

“All of Life Was Only Moments, After All” - Uprooted by Naomi Novik; Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

The Value in Horrible Things is What You Make of Them - There Are No Saints by Sophie Lark; There is No Devil by Sophie Lark

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.” - Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Gold Rush - Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman

“The moment I saw his eyes, I experienced something I never felt before.” - The Story of Yoru and Asa by Harada; The Story of Yoru and Asa: Encore by Harada; Happy of the End (Vol. 1) by Ogerestsu Tanaka; Happy of the End (Vol. 2) by Ogerestsu Tanaka

It’s corn (I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing) - What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell

Romance in SWEDISH! I’m expanding my horizons - En enda natt (All In) by Simona Ahrnstedt

For good reading on a plane, you can’t go wrong with Austen - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Smuggling, insects, and family drama surround this gay love story - The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

The struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of three women in three time periods - Weyward by Emilia Hart

Different person, same love - Every Day: The Graphic Novel by David Levithan

Cooking by numbers equals 20 percent chance of cauliflower - Vegan Buddha Bowls by Cara Carin Cifelli

“I was happy, but I also wasn’t. Something was missing, here. Or not missing, but sleeping. But nothing here could wake it up. It made me feel alone. I don’t know how else to explain it.” - The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

Another win from this author! - Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abíké Íyímídé

Based on a true story - Rostam's Picture-Day Pusteen by Ryan Bani Tahmaseb

Taking on the role of Isaac - Buzzing by Samuel Sattin

And here my basement only had a skunk - Things in the Basement by Ben Katke

Late to the Party - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Little Humans Have Questions About Death, A Mortician Answers Them - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty

Nobody knows the Troubles I’ve seen - Cal by Bernard MacLaverty

A CIA book that’s more user friendly than I thought - Pies and Tarts by Kristina Petersen Migoya

Never in her thirty-five years of being Black did Helen Beck expect to be in the middle of a forest with Enya playing on battery powered speakers. - I’ll Come Back for You by Charish Reid; I’ll Conjure for You by Charish Reid

You can’t spell “heart” without “art,” man! - The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

First Book of the Year – A Book About Books - The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence

Rather Appropriate for Today - Actress by Anne Enright

My Darling Girl- The classic horror premise: am I crazy or is it ACTUALLY supernatural? - My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

Bright Young Women- suck it Ted Bundy, ya basic. - Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

A Very Solid SF Short Story Collection - The 1976 Annual World's Best SF by Donald A. Wollheim (Editor)

Dystopian romance and humanity - Heart Attack by Shawn Kittelsen

A brown rainbow is beautiful - A Rainbow in Brown by Pavonis Giron

If it wasn’t for a gardening club, taxidermists, and friends, Joshua Tree National Park wouldn’t be - Cactus Queen: Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National Park by Lori Alexander

Empress - Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon

The Comeback Kid - Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Sadly, It’s True - Keanu Reeves is not in Love with You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud by Becky Holmes

An entertaining read for Women’s History month - The Alewives: A Plague-Era Tale of Murder, Friendship and Fine Ale by Elizabeth R. Andersen

Desperately Wanting - Knot Her Goal by Ari Wright

“My name’s Willa, and I believe I have your dog.” - Do Me a Favor by Cathy Yardley

Silver Nitrate: a return to horror - Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Happy International Women’s Day to Esther Green - The Keeper's Six by Kate Elliott

Bill Hodges is Back! - Finders Keepers by Stephen King

Don’t Let Your Midlife Crisis Ruin Your Children’s Lives - Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood

Alaska Alas - City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

A berry-colored world - My Own World by Mike Holmes

Your interviews into a graphic novel - Dear Body by Lea Bordier

Weird West - Lone Women by Victor Lavelle

Not For The Children - The Legacy by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

“For all stories have an ending as well as a beginning. But a beginning is where you choose to plant your foot, and the ending is only the edge of one’s own knowledge.” - The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

Captivating, Evocative, and THERE’S A TEA! - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Can I be a drag queen when I grow up? - The Art of Drag by Jack Hall, Sofie BIrkin, Helen Li and Jasjyot Singh Hans

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