Loved this book.

The best book of the year IMO. The writing is high quality. The story is interesting. Bonus is that it takes place in Wisconsin. (I‘m a former Wisconsinite and most of my family is still there.)

This book is so good that I read it every spare reading moment I‘ve had.

An excellent and important book. (Shown here by my son who insisted on holding the it.)

This book is excellent. It could have been trimmed down a bit, but that‘s true of most books IMO. 5⭐️
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This is a great memoir to me. I read it every spare moment I‘ve had. #memoir #nonfiction

I love this memoir. It‘s my first by this author but I‘ll definitely be reading her backlist. It shows the reality of pregnancy (including miscarriage) in memoir and alternating sections of pregnancy facts that are well done.

Interesting book. 4⭐️
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Good enough to finish, but not good enough that I‘d recommend it. I loved The Westing Game. This is no Westing Game.

An entertaining and fast reading time travel adventure novel. 4⭐️

Part library fire mystery, part Los Angeles Central Library history, and part love letter to books. Some have disliked that mostly dual stories of mystery and history but I thought they worked well together. The mystery would have bored me by itself and the history by itself would have probably bore others who don‘t love history as much as me. 4⭐️

My favorite comic series. I will definitely continue to preorder it.

I loved this book at the beginning and still enjoyed the middle. While the last third was good, it kind of petered out for me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I love this book. It feeds my nerdy history and nature loving interests in a well written and readable manner.
5⭐️

Ever since reading Melmoth I remembered how much I use to love gothic novels. This one is even better than Melmoth. 5⭐️

About to start this book. And I‘m glad that while it‘s a hardcover, there is no dust jacket. I‘d prefer if all hardcovers were like this one.

Bailing on this one. The narrator of the audio version is good but I‘m at chapter 5 and just bored. I think this is just like many other books that has a much better smaller book inside. Too bloated with boringness.

I loved The Tea Dragon Society (and looking forward to the sequel this fall) but this one was underwhelming and preachy (even if I fully agree with the sermon). However I still consider it a pick because I am much older than the target market and I think kids will like it.

Good but I can see why this one is not nearly as popular as Calculating the Stars.

The first half of this book was so good. The second half, though, was like a bad soap opera plot.

Not for me. This is a memoirish overview of personality typing. And it‘s not done very well.

Good book on the history of parenting and childhood. It has a balanced tone straddling academic and conversational or amusing. #nonfiction

This book is beautiful and may be my favorite of the year so far. It‘s a fantasy novel that reads like literary fiction. Very well written. Highly recommend.

Good illustrations and cute story. #kidlit #raisingreaders

My birthday is on Monday but my sister lives in another state, so I received my presents today. And I don‘t believe in waiting. 😃

I really liked this book and highly recommend the audio version. (I hate movie version covers but no choice with the audio version. It‘s my only complaint of this audiobook.)

I have a stack of books due at the library before this one, but I can‘t stop reading it every chance I get. I love the history of parenting and children and it‘s amusing with a somewhat conversational tone.

I loved this book. It‘s a very readable book, with science backing it up, about the importance and benefits of reading out loud. The focus is largely on children, but service members, prison inmates, hospital patients, and nursing home residents are mentioned.

I love this book!

This seemed good and interesting in the first half, then got really boring.

I saw this on the library‘s Black History Month display table but just finished it today. (It works for Women‘s History Month too, though.) It is so good. My son has a white mother and Chinese father, rather than a Black father, but I tend to be drawn to memoirs of mixed race children. Not that my son‘s life is anything like the author‘s. He‘s an only child and not one of 12 for starters. But this is a good read for everyone.

Wow. It‘s quite the little book. Can‘t say anything more without spoilers but wow.

I love this little book. 5⭐️

A good scientific book about reading. There is a lot of data listed and studies cited. The science of the brain and eyes is thoroughly covered. Social and socioeconomic issues are also addressed. And it made me feel better about pushing phonics so much with my kindergartener. Not light reading but good if you have an interest in the topic. 4⭐️

This book has gotten so many negative reviews that I almost didn‘t read it. It‘s a good reminder that I shouldn‘t be too led by others‘ bookish opinions. I really enjoyed this book. I loved the gloomy (gothic I‘ve read it described as) atmosphere. And I always love books with letters and diary entries.

A good volume of one of my favorite comics. I rarely preorder but Giant Days will be one that I will definitely keep preordering.

I like that the author is the narrator, considering the type of book it is. But I overestimated how much I would enjoy reading the many little details of the campaign (including snack choices and the names of many workers/staffers/friends/etc). I think if this book was at least 200 pages shorter and got more to the point of how she (and the country as a whole) lost, I would not have bailed.

The idea of a novella about a family that re-enacts the Iron Age sounds interesting to me. But this book was so much darker than I usually enjoy. I probably still would have rated it so-so (especially given the ending) but the lack of separation and quotation marks for conversation was frustrating.

I like this memoir and reflection on aging. It‘s ideal for me in audiobook form because of the French words/pronunciation. The only thing I didn‘t like is the “you know you‘re in your 40s when...” bits at the end of each chapter.

My first audiobook. I‘ve always had difficulty with audiobook attempts before but a tip I read to go with nonfiction helped. That and I only listened to it in the car (as a passenger) or walking so there‘s not so much to distract me. This was very good and easily held my attention. I loved the diversity of the women profiled. #audiobook

This is an excellent and beautifully written book.

A good addition to the Wayward Children series but despite the strong start I didn‘t love it. Not going to say why to avoid spoilers. I‘ll keep reading the series as new books get published, but I‘ll stick with the library (like I did with the previous books) and not preorder again. 3⭐️

Other than Volume 2, I think each volume is even better than the previous one.

I love this series so much that I preordered this book and received it yesterday. Usually I have a bad habit of not reading books I buy right away, but I already started this one and it starts off so strong I think it may end up being the best in the series so far. (Also look at this gorgeous cover!)

There‘s no volume 5 listing, so hopefully this is the right one. But volume 5 was another good one if a little confusing.

This is an excellent memoir about finding out her father is not her biological father after taking an Ancestry DNA test. There are layers to this discovery, including identity as a woman raised an Orthodox Jew. It‘s well written and absorbing. If not for a 6 year old on school break and other life obligations, I would have read it in one sitting. Thank you @Jenni_Capps for giving me this book.

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Another good volume.

This is a good and entertaining novel. The style reminds me of Fannie Flagg books.

I was on the library waitlist for two months but finally able to pick it up yesterday. I missed the holiday it‘s for but it was worth the wait. The illustrations are particularly excellent.
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