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I also made them a video where I read All of This, One Bad Night, and reviewed every story. That one was a four.

Behold the Dreamers and What Strange Paradise are both refugee stories, immigrant stories, people who are fighting for a better life. And then, this is about a couple who moves to America and the messy dynamic they get caught up in.

I also had a couple four and a halves, and those were Cursed Daughters and Till Summer Do Us Part.

We did two book club picks. my favorite from that was Futility.

Hark the Herald Angels Scream, a short story collection that shoehorned in the theme too often and for like half the stories. And then, the other half of the stories were just kind of uninspired to me or felt like they were geared to a younger audience.

Headshot, this is a boxing competition. We follow all the girls participating, their lives leading up to it and afterwards.

Hot Wax just because it had really weighty topics that were important for sure, but it was a pretty dull plot.

Jane Austen's Bookshelf is this fantastic biography of a bunch of women authors forgotten or underappreciated in history and how they might have inspired Jane Austen.

One of a Kind for its unclear messages and just too many warring genres at the same time.

Perfect Victims is a Palestinian sharing his thoughts, opinions, and life story regarding Palestine, genocide, and how media and people spin things and people aren't believed and have to make themselves perfect victims in order for the rest of the world to care.

Secret Santa, maybe just because I should have recognized such a gimmicky romance where you open a chapter every day. It would be the type of book that would end up in a gimmick like this. Not very quality.

Although, I also think I bumped up The Everlasting just a little bit.

The Raven Scholar is this kind of competition-based fantasy novel where different clans are fighting for power, and it's all about relationships and the games they participate in, and just the world and learning how everything works and what they've been told and if it's real or not.

The Unveiling due to its chaotic style, like a woman is on a boat, and we as the reader felt very untethered, I feel, from the actual plot and what the book was doing.

I also had a couple four and a halves, and those were Cursed Daughters and Till Summer Do Us Part.

We did the Treasure Hunters Club and Futility. my favorite from that was Futility.

I did one vlog where I was reading authors that I haven't read from in 10 years or something like that, and my favorite was We Met Like This, but it was not above a four.

Behold the Dreamers and What Strange Paradise are both refugee stories, immigrant stories, people who are fighting for a better life. young boy arrives on a boat. Everyone else has died, and it's how people see him and what he experiences.

I had a Besties Book Club where we read Why I Love Horror. this one was like a four and a half.

I guess my favorite from all the Buzzword episodes was Your Favorite Scary Movie because I gave this a four and a half.