We tell ourselves stories to live. - The White Album by Joan Didion
July 20, 1991. Picked up my college diploma at the service window of the registrar’s office. - Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
Feeding my Toby habit again - Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire
Dear Faerie: AITA for Not Inviting My Step-Dad to My Wedding? - A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire
A Worthwhile Second Chance - I Give My Marriage A Year by Holly Wainwright
“I live here, I have chosen to live here, because life seems real to me here.” - Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
A Spy In The Closet - Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
Finally Giving Credit Where It Is Due in the US Cooking Scene - The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin
Bobby Garfield’s father who been one of those fellows who starting losing their hair in their twenties and are completely bald by forty-five or so. - Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
Timely satire or too soon? - Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen
“We don’t “all” have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.” - Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
A steamy romance set amidst a family feud. - Hate to Want You (Forbidden Hearts, #1) by Alisha Rai
It was comforting to return to an established world: cbr12bingo “Yellow” - King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
cbr12bingo – Gateway (plus two “bingos” and a Double Cannonball!) - Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalt
Silly, Funny, Worth Your Time - The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M.T. Anderson & Eugene Yelchin
On Your Honor - The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
Everybody said: so? As in so what? - Summer by Ali Smith
Thrills and Chills - When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The first book in a historical romance series set during the Scottish Enlightenment. - Provoked (Enlightenment, #1) by Joanna Chambers
Commencing the Great Cosmere Re-read. - Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
1st Bingo! - Andrea Vernon & the Corporation for Ultra-Human Protection by Alexander C. Kane
A Cannonball prize and a bingo (Bingo #3) - Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
I wish this had been longer and more fleshed out. #CBRBingo – Cannonballer Says - Spellbound (Magic in Manhattan, #1) by Allie Therin
I Expect I’ll Turn the World Upside Down - The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk
“War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.” - The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1) by R.F. Kuang
The world is falling apart, but the magic is coming together - The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
Get your priorities straight! - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
Garbage In, Garbage Out (The Models, Not the Book) - Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
cbr12bingo – No Money! - Bright and Dangerous Objects by Anneliese Mackintosh
Mexico in my Kitchen in a Book - The Mexican Home Kitchen by Mely Martinez
Dancing all alone, feeling nothing good - Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Makes me wish I knew more about jazz - Jazz by Toni Morrison
Talking Slime and Generic Fantasy Gets Interesting - That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol 13 by Fuse, Taiki Kawakami, Mitz Vah
Any day she’s with Dad is Father’s Day - Papa Brings Me the World by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
Two reviews for the price of one post - Baby Monster by Andrea Pfeiffer; I Want to Sleep Under the Stars by Mo Willems
Even better the second time - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Play me your tiny violins and order me a waaambulance, because this review is very whiny. - Fence, Vol. 4: Rivals by C.S. Pacat
I liked this, but I almost liked her friends more than her love interest. - The Boyfriend Project (The Boyfriend Project, #1) by Farrah Rochon
“It is difficult, after the passage of more than a century, to understand the extent to which the train robbery of 1855 shocked the sensibilities of Victorian England.” #CBRBingo – Money! - The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
“But I can have spiders in my head as long as I don’t let them consume me.” #CBRBingo – Happy - The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Delightful - Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
Brexiteers - Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carré
Waiting for the end of the world - I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi
cbr12bingo – Red! - Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
Power Dynamics - Necessary People by Anna Pitoniak
Technocracy - Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
“What is a whole life? If you die when you’re still a child, is your life whole or half or zero?” - Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
“That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.” - Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver
Pride and Prejudice in modern-day Canada - Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
I’m just suggesting a super casual outing where we do some low-key ogling - Common Goal (Game Changers 4) by Rachel Reid