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3 Star Reviews

My least favorite of the series, but still worth reading, if you liked the first three. - Mother's Milk (Patrick Melrose, #4) by Edward St. Aubyn

The book was absolutely NOT better - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

“Into many lives a little irregularity must fall.” (CANNONBALL!! Bingo #3 & 4) - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

I Read This Because of Cate Blanchett - The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs

“We’re done justifying our place at the table” - The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla

Good Enough to Keep Reading the Series But Stop It With the Petunia Shit – It’s Not Cute - Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning

Growing up in a brothel in New Orleans - Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

This Book Feels So Incredibly Lonely - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Decline in Fall - Big Game: The NFL In Dangerous Times by Mark Leibovich

A lovely old-fashioned fantasy for kids (Bingo Square: Birthday!) - Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

It’s Not You, It’s Me: It Was Good, It Was Intricate But I Just Didn’t Love It - Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

“You know, I sometimes think that the most effective people in the world are introverts who taught themselves how to be extroverts.” - The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

Charming manga for the tween set - Cardcaptor Sakura: Vol. 1 by CLAMP

The picture book banned for the most ridiculous reason - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle

Myth lost in the novelization - Circe by Madeline Miller

When your teacher is a mummy everything is under wraps - Monster Academy by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple

The kids are all white - White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman

My favourite thing about this was probably the doll funerals - The Governess Game by Tessa Dare

Sort of does what it says on the tin. Worth checking out, anyway, if it sound interesting to you! - Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman

A pretty depressing bingo - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Be a Jukebox Hero, Got Stars in His Eyes - Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

Taking a “Dark Take” on a Children’s Classic to the Extreme - Alice by Christina Henry

Faeries and Courts and Sirens – A Familiar Story Competently Written - Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

Midterm election are Tuesday, November 6th - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

Some good ideas, but the execution could use some work - The Portal & The Experiment: Two Novellas of Suspense by Lynn L. Clark

Pandora isn’t the only one with box troubles - Ginny Goblin Is Not Allowed to Open This Box by David Goodner

Didn’t live up to this Janeite’s expectations. - Austenland (Austenland, #1) by Shannon Hale

Does the boogeyman have boogers? - Does Frankenstein Get Hungry? by John Solimine

I would have done it, too, if it weren’t for… - Meddling Kids: A Novel by Edgar Cantero

Some Ghouls Do - Stumpkin by Lucy Ruth Cummin

Everything okay, even the Armadillo - But Not the Armadillo by Sandra Boynton

Don’t judge a book by it’s wall - The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee

Accessible doesn’t mean bad - milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

Don’t Eat Me, Chupacabra!!!! I’m not a good snack - Don’t Eat Me, Chupacabra by Kyle and Derek Sullivan

Not as good as book one, but still worth reading. - P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2) by Jenny Han

Not in my Wheelhouse. Or beach house for that matter - Here’s to Us by Elin Hilderbrand

My cat didn’t really want the extra cuddles this book made me give him - We3 by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely

Jack was in charge - Snap by Belinda Bauer

Forget It, Juniper, It’s Racism - Follow Her Home by Steph Cha

Goodfellas meets The Social Network by way of Ayn Rand - American Kingpin by Nick Bilton

Blackout! One case where I prefer the literary criticism to the actual novel - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Not What I Was Expecting – Hollywood, Paris, the American South, and Two Scotsmen - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

If You Could Go Anywhere, Any When … - The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

Life is just a bowl of (sour) cherries - Refuge by Dina Nayeri

Put on your bow tie and pull up a comfy chair and get ready to read - Giraffe Problems by Jory John

A Starting Point for Christian Mysticism - The Way of the Mystics: Ancient Wisdom for Experiencing God Today by John Michael Talbot, Steve Rabey

Boring and Almost Normalizing (CBR10 BINGO) - Fear by Bob Woodward

A Visit to My Childhood (BINGO!) - All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

Entertaining thriller; leaned into all the wrong parts. #CBRBingo (3rd Bingo!) - The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

A buddy review with my dear friend Alison, who is a great writer but doesn’t write very much, which makes me sad. #CBRBingo (2nd Bingo!) - The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir by Elna Baker

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