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4 Star Reviews

Sexy magic boots - Kicking It by Faith Hunter and Kalayna Price

Blacking out BINGO with Liz Lighty and her crown. #CBRBingo – Violet - You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

“They took everything and ground it down to dust as fine as gunpowder, they fired their guns into the air in victory and the strays flew out into the nothingness of histories written wrong and meant to be forgotten. Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.” #CBRBingo – Orange - There There by Tommy Orange

A personal view of intersectional feminism, narrated by the author. - Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

How I spent my Christmas vacation - Greenglass House by Kate Milford

So This Is Why Geralt Is So Reticent - The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it. - The Big Short by Michael Lewis

The tree of our family was parted – branches here, roots there – parted for their lumber. - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Good and fun historical romance - Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

Can you imagine a life where all you have to do is summer in the Italian countryside? - A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

The cab turned off U.S. 101 in the direction of the sea. - The Moving Target by Ross MacDonald

The first thing they always did was run you. - Moneyball by Michael Lewis

Fools for Love - Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham

“Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.” - Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann

Pandemic Through My Generation - Severance by Ling Ma

Magical Friendship: cbr12bingo – “Friendship” - Phoebe and Her Unicorn in The Magic Storm by Dana Simpson

Jack (Prelutsky) is back! - Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems by Jack Prelutsky

A Dandelion by any other name probably wouldn’t be a dandelion, but these ARE great poems - Dandelion by Gabbie Hanna

A mistaken identity that leads to ones true identity - Ana on the Edge by A. J. Sass

Murderbot lives up to the hype: cbr12bingo – “Fresh Start” - All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries 1 by Martha Wells

This review is sponsored by TheShop – The world’s most popular online retailer - Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling

“The world’s richest people per capita were becoming the world’s most murdered.” (Bingo #6!) - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

“Honey, I’ve watched a lot of 90210. The parents weren’t even on the show once Brandon and Brenda went to college. This is your time – you’re supposed to going to frat parties and getting back together with Dylan.” - Fangirl, Volume 1 by Rainbow Rowell, Sam Maggs, Gabi Nam

“Knowledge wasn’t always power. Sometimes it was crippling.” - The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11) by Louise Penny

This book is Too Much but I still liked it. - The Memory of Souls (A Chorus of Dragons, #3) by Jenn Lyons

The cover artist more than earned her money on this one. Also I need to buy a copy and read it again. - Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

“May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.” - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Big, stinky dog living under porch with a suitcase full of $400k and explosives. - The Drifter (Peter Ash, #1) by Nicholas Petrie

She overcame death to win Gold - Unbeatable Betty: Betty Robinson, the First Female Olympic Track Field Gold Medalist  by Allison Crotzer Kimmel

How Grossly Do They Insult Us - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Old before I become a god (a.k.a. Hadrien, no slacker) - Memoirs of Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar

This one was a win for me! - When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

“You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes – two people. One is le bon Dieu – and the other is Hercule Poirot.” - The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6) by Agatha Christie

This is my white whale if I were Ahab, and Ahab sort of went up to Moby Dick and gently poked it with a spear and then backed away over and over again for months, and the whale just sat there looking at him, going, seriously? #CBRBingo – White Whale - The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3) by Ada Palmer

There are no guarantees, but you can talk yourself out of trying for a good thing. - Get It Right by Skye Kilaen

Behold… - The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

The Cosmere Re-Read Strikes Again #CBRBingo – Gateway - Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

“We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.” - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Practice dating quickly evolves into the real thing - His Grumpy Childhood Friend by Jackie Lau

Quite possibly Jackie Lau’s food-porniest book yet - Her Big City Neighbor by Jackie Lau

Could I Offer You a Little Brian Blessed in These Trying Times? - The Panther In My Kitchen: My Wild Life With Animals by Brian Blessed

Uncomfortable but worthwhile - Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

Inherit the Hate - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

I feel like this should be a YA novel, but it’s not - Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

When the Internet called, this author answered! - Mrs. Perivale and the Blue Fire Crystal by Dash Hoffman

BadFellas - Murder Machine by Gene Mustain & Jerry Capeci

A delightfully modern 19th century novel - Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

“While I was killing him, I had to wipe my mouth with my sleeve every now and then because I couldn’t stop salivating.” - Mars by Asja Bakić

An Unexpected Delight - Indian(-ish), Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family by Priya Krishna and Ritu Krishna

“To save the world with music and love, obviously”: cbr12bingo – “Music”, 3rd Bingo! - The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow

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