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Kingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself by David Toomey

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

3.5

A little slow at times, this was a really interesting look at animals at play and how it relates to evolution, and how much we still do not know! 

Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

4.5

Loved this! Effie is a maid, and in a totally reimagined Cinderella type story, she isn't a fallen lady who is trying to marry out of being a maid, she is just a maid, and at the end, she discovers that there really isn't anything wrong with that. Perfect for YA romantasy lovers! No spice.

A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke

adventurous dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

2.5

OK I loved the concept and enjoyed the first half of the book, but then it digressed with this sorta unexplained and anti-climactic conversion of the "libraries" and the puzzle ball, and I can't even decide if it is a happy ending because it feels like the explanation of the place is the start of a whole new story. Wanted to love it but it lost me. 

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

5.0

This is a perfect romantasy, with more romance than fantasy, with a early 19th century vibe of courting and propriety and all that stuff. Absolutely loved it!

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.0

I was almost physically ill reading this about a woman who was one of my childhood idols. You will be shocked. My heart hurts for her and I just want her to heal. She gave the world enough.

Want by Gillian Anderson

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Um... WOW! This is NSFW at all! Nor is it what I would call smut from the book world. This collection of women's most secret sexual fantasies is like... wow. Enlightening, erotic, wild, empowering.

Delivering Diana by Annabelle Winters

fast-paced

3.75

Action. Adventure. Absolute Absurdity. This is action packed, un-put downable and totally laughable while also being a page turner. Love this series, but please don't take it too seriously LOL

Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

Excellent collection of short stories by the king of horror, Stephen King. 

Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

This was a really interesting and gripping true crime. The fact of the racism and discrimination against Native Americans is something you know, but reading another instance of extreme horrible treatment is enlightening again. 

The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

I'm still in love with this book!! Got a lot out of reading it again, knowing the plot twist, and getting more depth I think.