“When you can eat, eat. When you can sleep, sleep. When you can fuck, fuck. But do not fuck with the pancreas.” - The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year by Matt McCarthy
“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read.” (CBR11 Bingo) - The Bone People by Keri Hulme
I kind of don’t care that terrible people made problems for themselves (Pajiba) - Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Fun, witty mystery set in a grim era - The Scandal at Bletchley: A Hilary Manningham-Butler Mystery (#1) by Jack Treby
But the fire is so delightful - Some Snow Is… by Ellen Yeomans
When a Princess, a Knight and a Queen decide to fight a Dragon…. - Princess Scallywag and the Brave, Brave Knight by Mark Sperring
This wasn’t the conversation I was trying to have. - Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
In the beginning, Amanda did not have her own character. - Ripper by Isabel Allende
He had been reading for six hours, sometimes the same page over and over. - Young Adolf by Beryl Bainbridge
Maybe not his best, but not terrible either. Bingo #3 - Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo
The past is a black hole, cut into the present day like a wound, and if you come too close, you can get sucked in. - Severance by Ling Ma
And so it begins… again. (And so it begins) - The Gates by John Connolly
Well it ain’t Gone Girl but it’ll do - The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
Great Characters, Messy Plot - Reunited by the Badge by Deborah Fletcher Mello
Book Takes Too Long To Get to the Point - Recursion by Blake Crouch
Outer. Space! - Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach
Without shelter, we stand in daylight. - Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead - Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
Waiting For the TV Show… - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
There are better things to rebel against, Nate - Rebel by Bernard Cornwell
Bingo: Classics Whiplash, My Dear Watson - A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Murder and medical procedures most horrid - The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry
A Man and His Thoughts - Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
Are we the baddies? - The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson
Who could have known that the man on his way to the prostitutes would become Cuilan’s lover? - Love in the New Millenium by Can Xue
Hideous hideous hideous hideous kink - Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
On this particular evening, however, I had suffered from one of those revulsions that all writers know. - The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
You recognized her? - The Underdog and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
Cute cooking manga that took a dark turn, comes to a sweet conclusion - Kitchen Princess Vol. 7 by Miyuki Kobayashi (story by), Natsumi Ando (manga by); Kitchen Princess Vol. 8 by Miyuki Kobayashi (story by), Natsumi Ando (manga by); Kitchen Princess Vol. 9 by Miyuki Kobayashi (story by), Natsumi Ando (manga by); Kitchen Princess Vol. 10 by Miyuki Kobayashi (story by), Natsumi Ando (manga by)
The Game’s Afoot (Bingo) - A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
In the Darkness of the Grave - The Witch Elm by Tana French
Very Short Story That I Wish Had Been Longer - Playing House by Ruby Lang
Was I Supposed to Learn Something??? - The Nobodies by Liza Palmer
There were footsteps in the other room. - The Need by Helen Phillips
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Bogart made it better - The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
We rescue curls, You save coins. - Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
I wasn’t ready to know the truth and I was equally unsure how to proceed. - The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
The radio played a waltz. - Snow in April by Rosamunde Pilcher
Humanizing Holmes - A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Interesting premise, unsatisfying ending - Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
Spoiler: None of Them are Named Balki or Larry - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock - The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock
Death and the Maiden - The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
All the colors in San Francisco’s history - Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya
“Can ambiguous social situations kindly go fuck themselves?” - Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
I can’t say it improved with age - The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
CBR11Bingo: Summer Read - An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
He is powered by PLAY! - Unstoppable Me by Susan Vere
With a Vroom! Vroom! everywhere - Vroom! by Barbara McClintock