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Old school vibes in modern YA - A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry

The Way The Music Died - Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring

Finally getting around to a series I’ve had on my TBR for ten years. #CBRBingo – Reading the TBR - Goblin Quest (Jig the Goblin, #1) by Jim C. Hines

A “Reluctant” Beginning - A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole; Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole

Civil War Noir - De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage

Representation is important for the women who don’t want kids, as well (Cannonball!) - Not Another Family Wedding by Jackie Lau

But seriously, why don’t kids come with a manual? - Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years―No Time-outs Needed by Jamie Glowacki

In which the illustrations were not up to par for this Type 4. - The Enneagram Made Easy by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele

An Homage to an Homage to Twin Peaks? - The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh

Sometimes it feels like people try too hard - Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle by Laura Purdie Salas, Claudine Gevry; My Footprints by Bao Phi, Basia Tran; To Catch an Elephant by Vanessa Westgate

Familiar and Strange - The Giver by Lois Lowry; Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry; Messenger by Lois Lowry; Son by Lois Lowry

In which I get my husband to co-review this bit of fluff with me - Rumpole and the Reign of Terror by John Mortimer

Galactic Millieu Epic – The Golden Torc - The Golden Torc by Julian May

On the news tonight the new President said there’s no reason for anyone to worry about the situation. He didn’t say which situation. - Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, ‘the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned. - House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata

It Is What It Is - All That I Have by Castle Freeman Jr.

Lust and Wander (Rainbow Flag) - Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs

Stop! Thief! That’s MY Chalk Drawing! - The Case of the Missing Chalk Drawings by Richard Byrne

Greed Is In - Dear Money by Martha McPhee

Interesting ideas but needed more space to grow - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Far and Away - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

Well, it didn’t scare me off MY wedding - Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen

And so the journey to finding oneself begins - A Girl Called Echo V01 Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette

A cute YA book with mystery and romance - Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett

Meal - Meal by Blue Delliquanti, Soleil Ho

Only Enjoyed Mowgli and Rikki Tikki Tavi Stories - The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kiplin

Officially the weirdest book i have read in the past 8 years. - The Obsoletes by Simion Mills

Infamy, infamy! They’ve all got it infamy! - Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire by Terry Deary

Provocative, uneven collection of essays (Bingo!) - The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist by Richard P. Feynman

I’m not sure Alyssa Cole’s contemporaries are my kind of thing - A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole

Tartan Noir - Laidlaw by William McIlvanney

Too Many Coincidences and POVs - Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Would probably have worked better if I had read previous books in the series - Someone Like You by Lauren Layne

The zombie apocalypse will be televised - Blackout (Newsflesh #3) by Mira Grant

Warrior Women with Bad Attitudes - The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston

Would you tell on your friends? - Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings

Love and Politics Can Mix - Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

How we slice the skin - Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Olivia understood that actually they would be happier without her - Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I will serve you. Use me in the wide world. - The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick

“What’s to become of us? We can’t go on like this.” - Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald

Human teeth can’t have done that to her neck. - The Thirst by Jo Nesbo

How to create beauty from chaos. - A Beautiful Mess by Danielle Strickland

In A Hopeless Place - The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem

Intriguing YA Read Concept that Didn’t Quite Stick the Landing - Mercury by Hope Larson

Youths - Confessions of an average boy by Mark Hill

U is for Unique - The GayBCs by M. L. Webb

CBR11Bingo: Reading the TBR - Maybe You Never Cry Again by Bernie Mac

Fairies, A Forest, and A Knight - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

Kate Waters is back! - The Suspect (Kate Waters #3) by Fiona Barton

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