A decent read somewhat spoiled by sky-high expectations - Making Friends by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A Decent Novel Unfortunately Weighed Down by my Comparing It to Other, Stronger Media About the Same Subjects - The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
That Invisible Frontier - Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
Put ’em up! I fight ya with one paw behind my back! - Tiger vs. Nightmare by Emily Tetri
Read and let me know what you think - Home Base: A Mother-Daughter Story by Nikki Tate
I wish last time I stubbed my toe the ending was a sweet - Because I Stubbed My Toe by Shawn Byous
“Things sometimes fell apart unexpectedly. It was not necessarily a reflection of how much they were valued.” - Kingdom of the Blind (Inspector Gamache #14) by Louise Penny
A bit of a bummer after the high of #9. - The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10) by Louise Penny
Not academic, but that’s also not really the point - The Atlas of Happiness: The Global Secrets of How to Be Happy by Helen Russell
“I guess I have been cruising his back roads my whole life. I don’t regret it’* - N0S4A2 by Joe Hill
“There must have been some kind of mistake,” I said. - The End and Other Beginnings by Veronica Roth
“You have to live each hour as if it’s your last and each day as if you were immortal.” (CBR Bingo) - The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons #2) by Julia Quinn
YMMV on this one. I bounced hard off it but other people have really seemed to like it. - Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
Somewhere in the multiverse there is a universe where this series had an editor, and the me that lives there gave this book five stars. - The Raven King (All for the Game, #2) by Nora Sakavic
Guinness book of world records, record for least Miss Marple in a Miss Marple book. - The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4) by Agatha Christie
Easy Money, Raging Tempers - Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
Climate Change + Manga + Aquicorns - Aquicorn Cove by Katie O'Neill
Dragons and Tea and Illustrations! Oh, My! - The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O'Neill
Lumberjanes do Friendship to the Max Indoors and Out - Lumberjanes (vols. 13-14) by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Dozerdraws
Dublin Soul - The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
What would happen if women could thoroughly, completely, permanently turn the tables? - The Power by Naomi Alderman
I would have liked more background and info about the rest of the crew - The Disasters by M.K. England
soft-core misery porn - Turbulence by David Szalay
Not for me. #CBRBingo – Debut - Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
This series still not living up to its potential, for me. - One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns, #2) by Kendare Blake
Vampires Get Nervous, Too - Maury the Miserable Vampire by Jeff Roland
Toss a coin…etc - The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Weaving In and Out and Back Around - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Mystery and murder and mayhem IN SPACE - Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre
‘Geoffrey’s mum told us “If you take a hen’s egg from under her and she just looks at you and doesn’t do anything, put that egg back.” Peace and quiet is a sign that something’s wrong. Peace and quiet is like a broken response, a sign of people in pieces.’ - The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi
Sadly, a rather disappointing follow-up to two very good books - Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
Eventual Character Growth - Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing by Allison Winn Scotch
A Storied Life: The Autobiography of Book – No Money! - Book by John Agard
cbr12bingo – Debut - Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson
Been on my ‘recommended by a Cannonballer’ list for years now… (#Cannonballer Says!) - Confessions by Kanae Minato
Faking consumption to get husband’s attention: Debut - To Have and to Hoax by Martha Waters
Temptation and Seduction - In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Root of All Evil - Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump, PhD
Your Familiar YA Dystopian Fiction Meets the Flavour of The Handmaid’s Tale - We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
The insuperable gap between east and west that exists in some eyes is perhaps nothing more than an optical illusion. - The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Hey, No Arnold! - The Running Man by Stephen King
Never saw the movie, and the book has not inspired me to do so - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Just one last job - The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
A Sweet Romance - The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
Mennonite #MeToo - Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia. - Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
No Surprises - Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Maybe through the next door… - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alex E. Harrow
“Somebody always leaves a banana-skin on the scene of a tragedy.” - Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Another Fake Relationship M/M Romance - Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall