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This moved too slow and the wrap up was too convoluted. The main character got on my nerves and the audiobook narration was odd. Just didn't work for me

This has a clever premise and it's humorous, but the pace is way too slow.

Excellent middle grade graphic novel about making friends, fitting in, and being yourself.

I knew of Sally Ride, of course, and Judy Resnik, unfortunately because of the Challenger disaster, but it's a shame that i never knew about the other four women in this group. Fascinating book. So hard to read when you know the disaster coming at the end. These are/were amazing women.

Good biography with lots of historical context

I couldn't get into anything else I was reading the other day so I turned to a favorite to reread. Flavia did not let me down!

Sweet, realistic fiction about a 7th grader exploring and celebrating her indigenous heritage, while also doing the usual middle school stuff like having a crush and making new friends. Lovely depiction of a multigenerational, extended family living in the same home.

This is not the kind of book I usually read, but it was great! I laughed out loud a number of times.

Excellent descriptions of settings and a good mystery, but I had trouble keeping the characters straight and I was kind of bored.

#botm arrived today! I unintentionally color-coordinated my picks 💕📚

I would have bailed if this hadn't been for book club. This family is messed up and everything tied up too nicely at the end after all the terrible things they did to each other. And all the comments about weight/characters being fat were gross.

I love Anne of Green Gables but haven't read anything else by Montgomery and thought this would be an interesting departure from her usual work. I read the first six stories and they were okay. I'll save the rest of the stories for another time, maybe next Halloween season.

I didn't enjoy this one as much as I usually do books in this series. The first half has a lot of different threads and felt a little messy and slow. The second half picked up but the mystery was a little convoluted.

Good but the plot involves rabies and Lister and his research on rabies inoculation, which is interesting scientifically but the details about how animals were used will be upsetting to many readers.

This is the story of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, a French archaeologist/egyptologist, and how she was instrumental in saving ancient Egyptian artifacts - very large temples and statues that were extremely difficult to preserve and move.

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I'm not a particular fan of vampire books but I really liked this book (although that has nothing to do with the vampires). The writing is really good and my favorite aspects are the historical setting and the characters.

Started out slow. Terrible people who did terrible things and then had trouble things done to them, which wasn't as satisfying as expected. Mostly I hate read/skimmed because I wanted to know the ending but really didn't care what was happening along the way. I guessed the twist long before it happened.

Dark, scary middle grade.

Light pick: fast paced, kept me guessing but the ending was kind of messy

Three 40 yr old women who were best friends in college win the lottery but everything falls apart when they travel to the estate of their new wealth consultant.

Had some time to kill between an appointment and work so I stopped at Barnes & Noble 📚

Short story. Typical Alice Hoffman themes/motifs (sisters, nieces, estrangement, grief). Enjoyable but not really remarkable.

Teen graphic novel. Fairy tale romance between a young woman who has to pretend to be a man in order to inherit her father's money and the princess of the kingdom (where everything/everyone is named after cheese). Cute story. Odd mix of typical old-fashioned fairy tale setting and modern stuff, like video games. And the cheese thing was odd too (and made me crave a grilled cheese).

Maggie's parents send her to "wellness" camp because they think she needs to lose weight. Turns out the camp is run by a vampire.

Good. Interesting to read about a place and time that I don't know much about.

Book 4 and last in series. One pretty disturbing aspect to the crime at the center of the mystery. Good series. Liked it better than this author's standalones.

Good mystery, but a little too long.

Kids mystery about a family full of quirky characters, a reunion, a treasure, and some murders.

#botm arrived today!

Each chapter is the story of a different person living in this one apartment in Miami at different times from the 1940s when it was built to the 2000s.

Compelling characters. Some weird ghost or paranormal stuff that I didn't really get. I think I would have liked it better if there were more stories from the early decades of the apartment instead of more recent ones.

Rich teens are having a 1920s themed graduation party in a historic mansion on an island when one of them is murdered.

Entertaining and fast-paced

Book 3 in Sinister Summer series. Continues to be a fun kids mystery series: a little Scooby Doo and a little Series of Unfortunate Events and a lot of its own unique charm.

Book 3 in Harry Bosch series. Too many red herrings and boring details.

When Nat's ultra-feminist parents don't let her join the synchronized swimming team because the sport focuses too much on appearance, she lies to them and joins anyway.

Book 3 in Det. Elouise Norton series.

Pretty good story, but tough subject - missing and murdered middle school girls.

Good. Dragged a bit in the middle, but that might have been my issue not the book's. I also got annoyed with the main character being slow to pick up on things. Lots of action and drama.

Jasper the cat is taking a break from his life of crime to pose for a picture 😸

I read most of this, but skipped some parts that didn't interest me. Attempts to provide some diversity, but still mainly British/American/European writers covered.

I think cozy mysteries are losing their charm for me. This one was okay. I skimmed a lot because I got tired of all the over-explaining and unnecessary details.

Good, but it took a while for me to get hooked by the story.

Mystery/thriller about missing and murdered indigenous women. There's one element that would maybe put this in the horror category, but it seemed more like a mystery to me.

Teen mystery. Pretty good, but there was one thing that I'm not sure if it's supposed to be ambiguous or if I'm misinterpreting. I also had trouble distinguishing between the 2 female narrators and got confused as to which pov I was hearing.

I usually love Lippman's books, but this one was slow and lackluster until the end, but then the ending seemed rushed. Maybe I just missed something along the way.

I can't say that I "enjoyed" this, as Edith Wilson wasn't a likeable person, but now I know more than I did before.

The author's story of her experience being very successful in an MLM is interesting and it's important for stories like this to be heard in order to expose the toxic, predatory nature of MLMs. I stopped listening close to the end because I wasn't interested in a rehash of the pandemic and politics. I was also disappointed that even after she saw the MLM for what it is, she continued to collect a HUGE paycheck off the backs of her downline.

I'm sad that this is the last book in the series. I highly recommend this middle grade mystery series set in the 1930s - called Wells & Wong in the U.S. (not all the books have been published here yet) and Murder Most Unladylike in the UK.

This was good, although not quite my kind of book. The historical part interested me more than the horror.

A complex mystery bogged down by mundane details making it slow-paced and boring.

I liked the characters but it was a pretty long book for having a thin plot and not much mystery. The disjointed narrative didn't work for me either.

Teen historical fiction. A few details didn't quite feel historically accurate. The main character kept doing really dumb things and was a bad judge of character. Most of the characters were jerks who were scamming others.