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Hell Bent- WHY IN THE NAME OF CLIFFHANGERS WHHHYYYYY - Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

Ninth House- A reread and re-review! - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

“One doesn’t need magic if one knows enough stories.” - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawelett

Remarkable author and their remarkable series and the remarkable new one - Remarkably Ruby (Emmie & Friends, #6) by Terri Libenson

The Genealogy of Southern Cooking - The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty

Coffee makes everything better. - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

“I said, could I f*ck you, and you said, yes please, and I thought, there’s manners. Proper breeding, that is.” - The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles

Been sleeping on this guy. Even Madonna beat me to it. - Gold by Rumi

Alan Rickman: a bit catty, a bit snobby, and maybe a bit dirty? - Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman (Author) Rima Horton (Afterword), Emma Thompson (Contributor)

We were boys who had created ourselves - Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore

An extremely unexpected new favorite. - Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

“It is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it” - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

“The most important thing is finding someone you wish to play with.” - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

“She checked underneath the sink but didn’t see anything that might destroy an evil puppet.” - How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity - All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

530 pages and I wasn’t ready for it to be over - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Joyce Carol Oates (1) - We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

“What is memory if not a ghost?” - Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

Kathryn Moon’s Sweetverse - Baby and the Late Night Howlers by Kathryn Moon; Lola and the Millionaires parts I & II by Kathryn Moon; Bad Alpha by Kathryn Moon; Faith and the Dead End Devils by Kathryn Moon

Paint the town red - Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall

“They were pilgrims. They were cosmonauts. They were as good as dead.” - Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

A perfect way to start the year - Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

I don’t want to be that guy….but Cormac McCarthy wrote a really good book. - No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

I See the Appeal - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

A cautionary tale that will probably never appear on a Florida school library shelf - Breaking Stalin’s Nose by Eugene Yelchin

More of this, please. - Axiom’s End by Lindsey Ellis

“Her mom carefully selected her memories to reflect her established opinions, and it turned her mind into a bowl of lettuce she believed was a salad.” - The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

Searching for Dragons- In Which the Re-read Continues to Totally Hold Up - Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Dealing with Dragons- In Which I Embark on a Re-read and It TOTALLY Holds Up - Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

“Hello, Hart-ache.” “Hello, Merciless”. - The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

If you have to go, I will go with you. - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

California Soul-less - Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper

the end of an era, literally ::insert Chris Traeger gif here:: - The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson

“You’re stuck loving only hearts that can stop beating.” - We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

‘The Habsburgs were the first rulers whose power encompassed the world, and they achieved greatness by luck and by force.’ - The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Martyn Rady; In The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World by Edward Shawcross

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches- Like a warm hug - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

“You know what they say. Happy wife, happy life.” - Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews

“I didn’t smuggle the dog into the country; I merely caused him to be smuggled out of Baluchistan.” - Frederica by Georgette Heyer

“No one tells you before you procreate that the hardest thing about being a good parent is that you never feel like one.” - The Winners by Fredrik Backman

A Mystery I Really Didn’t Need to Have Solved - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Heather Ann Thompson (1) - Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Hairy Tail - Fairy Tale by Stephen King

Wheel Keeps on Turning - Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

“We are dreamers and makers because that is how we forged ourselves.” - All the Things They Said We Couldn’t Have by T.C. Oakes-Monger

Natalie Haynes (1) - Pandora's Jar by Joanna Russ

Girls Just Wanna Have . . . Fun? - Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

Toni Morrison (1) - Beloved by Toni Morrison

Don’t sleep on this series - You're My Little Honey Bunny by Natalie Marshall

Fast moving and packed with revelations Another Day is a worthy follow up to The Wicked Years. - The Oracle of Maracoor by Gregory Maguire

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  • Emmalita on “One doesn’t need magic if one knows enough stories.”I can’t wait to read this 😭
  • Michellers66 on “I said, could I f*ck you, and you said, yes please, and I thought, there’s manners. Proper breeding, that is.”I'm in LA so I'm incredibly fortunate to have an amazing library system but its also huge so the book suggestion wheels turn slowly. I...
  • Michellers66 on Coffee makes everything better.I loved this book too! I read it right after finishing Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby...
  • Michellers66 on It Takes a Village. To save you from the Fae.This sounds perfect for me, I'm so happy to read your review! Grumpy/Sunshine trope, yes please!
  • reginadelmar on The Genealogy of Southern Cookingalong with an incredible generous spirit.
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