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3 Star Reviews

That’s Some Pig! - Business Pig by Andrea Zuill

Retro artwork and ageless story - Small Walt and Mo the Tow by Elizbeth Verdick

Lucky 13 - There’s a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor by Wade Bradford

Definitely not my wheelhouse, but thought-provoking nonetheless (BINGO finally!) - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

“This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not the brief, final tenth.” - Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman

That wasn’t on the menu - The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

A Quick, Intense, Faulted Read - Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

Can’t teach a Road Dog new tricks - Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard

Not your Grandmother’s Nancy Drew - Nancy Drew Clue Book #8 World Record Mystery by Carolyn Keene

When does this woman have time for her comedy? - My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands by Chelsea Handler

This book was published 27 years ago, and we still need it - The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

Okay except for the font - Mixter Twizzle's Breakfast by Regan W. H. Macaulay, Wei Lu

But I don’t care how many times you change your ways, what’s in you is in you, and it’s got to come out - Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

I couldn’t even remember the title - Transcription by Kate Atkinson

Old Friend, New Style - A Parade of Elephants by Kevin Henkes

Good, but not great - The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

Isabella (Belle) Baumfree’s story - So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary D. Schmidt

The power of good-bye - Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Do Children Prefer to Read About Food More Than Fairies? - The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay

“You’ve got to learn to like yourself a little more” - Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto

Durr, that Mr. Darcy - Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Family Matters - Crooked House by Agatha Christie

Disappointing - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

The book that inspired the Metallica video that freaked you the hell out in 1988 - Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

“The Departed” set in Giuliani’s New York - Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty

The Dog Dies - I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

This book will make you hungry (Third bingo!) - The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E. Reichert

The 2nd Book in a Row for Me That Just Feels Overwhelmingly Lonely - Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh

An intriguing look into a serial criminal. - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

Whoah, this girl is messed up – BINGO - Before I Met Him: a chilling psychological thriller by John Nicholl

I wish I liked the characters more - Sunburn by Laura Lippman

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

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