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]
Game of Pets Book 1: The Boy Who Knew Too Much by Aaron Blabey
While I can’t say Game of Pets Book 1: The Boy Who Knew Too Much LEFT our main character hanging off the wheel of the giant monster truck (which he actually was at one point) it does leave you hanging as the cliffhanger ending ends with a police chase and the fate of the world in the hands of a kid, … [Read more]
The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross
Very blatant spoilers for the previous books in the series here—be warned. Has there ever been a book that you’ve really changed your mind about on re-read? The Annihilation Score is one of these. The Annihilation Score was a Laundry Files entry that was always going to face an uphill battle; not … [Read more]
Dragon Keeper: The Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 1 by Robin Hobb
cbr18bingo - One I have been holding off on starting this part of Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series. The Farseer Trilogy, The Liveship Traders Trilogy and The Tawny Man Trilogy were all fantastic, but when I looked at Dragon Keeper, the first of the four novels in The Rain Wilds … [Read more]
The Book of Goose: A Novel by Yiyun Li
Cbr18bingo - Bird Almost as soon as I started reading The Book of Goose, I was reminded of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. Both Ferrante’s series and Li’s The Book of Goose feature impoverished girls living in post-WWII Europe. Both feature a friendship that can be competitive and … [Read more]
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
This is a novel about a man who gets swallowed by a whale, and I tell you in all honesty that I was really enjoying it right up to the point where a guy was swallowed by a whale. Jay Gardiner is a 19-year-old whose father, a legendary scuba diver, was extremely tough on him, screaming at him and … [Read more]
The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles
What could I possibly say abut The Odyssey? In advance of the impending release of Christopher Nolan's film adaptation, I decided to re-familiarize myself with the story. Like most, I read at least part of Homer's epic poem in a high school English class, but that was a long, long time ago. All … [Read more]
