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CBR11Bingo: True Story - The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

Don’t even click on this. It is a useless review. - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Croc & Turtle may be different, but they’re the best of friends! - Croc & Turtle: Snow Fun! by Mike Wohnoutka

Holmes and Watson and… Mary Russell? - The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

Underwhelming amnesia rom-com. - Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

My personal tastes just didn’t gel with this one 🙁 - Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah Weatherspoon

A book about how books can show you who you are - Turning Pages: My Life Story by Sonia Sotomayor

Important reminder that refugees don’t WANT to leave their homes - The Saffron Kitchen: A Novel by Yasmin Crowther

There is no sensation like drowning. - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Buddy Read: Pretty Weak Offering of Old School YA Horror - Help Wanted by Richie Tankersley Cusick

The Movie Was Better - Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

…in which love and Mormonism bore a part. - A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

None of it seemed very real, but I suppose that’s the trouble with history. - Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd

There was a painful silence. - The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty

An Update Worth Investing In, With Caveat - Tartine: A Classic Revisited: 68 All-New Recipes + 55 Updated Favorites by Elizabeth M. Prueitt, Chad Robertson

(bad “Electric Feel” joke) - The Power by Naomi Alderman

…using our legs to proceed across the landscape. - A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson

One sled and some bad jokes make for two new early readers - Penny and Her Sled by Kevin Henkes; Little Penguin’s New Friend by Tadgh Bentley

Like a tea-tray in the sky - Bernard Pepperlin by Cara Hoffman

Life is too short for books you don’t want to read - Wicked by Gregory Maguire

You were right to tell me that in life it is not the future which counts, but the past. - Missing Person by Patrick Modiano

“Real” Princesses can be too sensitive! - The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas by Tony Wilson

American heiress and spinster daughter of an earl fall in love in the 1920s. - How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans

You are invited to a Tea Party for Mr. Pumpkin and his friends - Mr. Pumpkin’s Tea Party by Erin Barker

The Chase - The Chase by Alejo Carpentier

Trust me, I’m an algorithm. - Excuse Me by Liana Finck

Two weddings and a shitload of funerals - The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett

Who doesn’t want an exploding wicker chicken? - Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger

“But what do I know? I’ve only been around 4.5 billion years or so.” - AstroNuts Mission One: the Plant Planet by Jon Scieszka, Steven Weinberg

Some people find it comfortable to go through life on their knees, and good luck to them - Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge

Two Snow Whites, and two bingo squares! - Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm by by Randall Jarrell (Translator), Nancy Ekholm Burkert (Illustrator); Snow White in New York by Fiona French

I Thought Supernatural Had Exclusive Rights to that Kansas Song by Now - Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

Definitely not my wheelhouse - The Whisper Man by Alex North

Silly Ol’ Bear - Winnie’s Great War by Lindsay Mattick

Oooooh New York… - Twisted City by Jason Starr

Takeshi Kovacs #2 & #3 - Broken Angles by Richard K. Morgan; Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan

“Two is a million more kids than one” - F*, Now There Are Two of You by Adam Mansbach,

I’m singing at the bridge, just singing at the bridge, what a glorious feeling to put Vole in my fridge…. - Vole and Troll by Iza Trapani

Not just a [Lady], but a Scientist (Bingo: Science!) - A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan

Princess Truly to the rescue! - I Am a Super Girl: Princess Truly Book 1 by Kelly Greenwalt

“In her they instinctively sensed an outlaw, and theirs was the task of policing nature.” - The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

Waiting for Tom Hanks (a.k.a shut up Annie you don’t deserve a movie star) - Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey

Its officially Fall. I’m running late with my #SummerRead pick. - Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey

Maybe I Should Have Started With Book #1 - The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe

Book Didn’t Address Some Key Plot Points - Love, Heather by Laurie Petrou

I Think That’s Enough Doyle for Me - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

But I think it’s better to let the deal stand. - Neuromancer by William Gibson

There’s no point in specifying that something is “real” unless someone suspects that it’s fake. - What We Talk about when we talk about Books by Leah Price

How to make more informed parenting choices (but probably still feel like you’re doing it wrong) - Cribsheet: A data driven guide to better, more relaxed parenting, from birth to preschool by Emily Oster

Losing His Religion - The Black Mass of Brother Springer by Charles Willeford

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