Welcome to the 2026 Book Bingo Reading Challenge! Now is the time to dig through those books you read but didn’t review, or pick up that book you’ve been thinking about. Bingo is about vibes and creative interpretations. Most importantly, it’s about fun. The words (or numbers) in the circles are … [Read more]
Marriage with Benefits by Ellie Palmer
A marriage of convenience for health insurance and real estate is so appropriate for 2026. I would marry someone for good health insurance, sadly, I don’t have real estate to trade. Marriage With Benefits takes on that question of who could we be if we weren’t constantly struggling to survive? … [Read more]
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin
CBR18 BINGO: Wealth because much wealth was gained and lost "Temptation has driven human folly for centuries, whether the serpent in the Garden of Eden or the market manias of cryptocurrency or artificial intelligence. Each wave seduces us into thinking that we've learned from history and, this … [Read more]
Helpless by Jessica Knoll
I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Look, this will be short. This was a terrible book. I really enjoyed Knoll's other books so I kept re-checking what I was reading to make sure that I had not made a mistake somewhere. This was somehow worse than Fifty … [Read more]
One Last Word by Suzanne Park
Well this had an interesting premise (what if messages you meant to be sent after you died get sent before you do?) and then it just had way too much nonsense with a relationship that never felt realized throughout the book. Also, the main character, Sara sucks in my mind. I just got tired of her … [Read more]
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
CBR18 Bingo- One, because it's the first book in a series. Centuries in the future, a group of seven individuals are summoned to the planet Hyperion, in order to make a pilgrimage to the legendary Time Tombs, eerie structures that are moving backward in time. The Time Tombs are guarded by a … [Read more]
I See You've Called In Dead by John Kenney
Bud Stanley was, somehow, the lead obituary writer at a New York newspaper until, in a bit of drunken foolishness exacerbated by his recent divorce, he decides to hack into the computer system at work and publish his own obituary. The paper wants to fire him immediately, but they are stymied by the … [Read more]
