How green is your valley? - The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Words mean more than what is set down on paper - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Murder Investigation as a Capstone Project - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
“Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators …. But they don’t carry it the way victims do.“ - They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisenger, Steven Scott, Harmony Becker
Nature, red in tooth and claw (CBR12Bingo: Pandemic) - Devolution by Max Brooks
Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit (CBR Bingo: Money) - Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
“If something keeps you human when pressure makes you feel like a volcano, hold on to that thing by any means necessary.” (Bingo #2) - Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
This Was Exactly My Kind of Weird. - Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
This one is going in my top ten for 2020. #CBRBingo – Reader’s Choice - Beach Read by Emily Henry
Everything I wanted and more. - Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells
2 Perspectives, 1 Great Story - I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
cbr12bingo – Orange - Sing to It by Amy Hempel
Gyo Fujikawa Drew her way into our hearts - It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear
“… it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us.” - Ghachar Ghochar: A Novel by Vivek Shanbhag
BIGFOOT! - Devolution by Max Brooks
Real Life Takes Place in Movement - Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
She’s fine but I’m a mess - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Just what I needed to cure the pandemic blues - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Since I couldn’t pick just one, this is a long review with no pillows included for a break nap - beast feast by Douglas Florian; Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye; One Year at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks
A marvelous extension of an already incredible, established universe - Avatar The Last Airbender: The Promise by Gene Luen Yang
Timely. - Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay
Beautiful and Heartbreaking - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Pretty people doing not pretty things - The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham; The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by K. Woodman-Maynard
One Ring To Rule Them All….. - The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien; The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien; The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien
Was It Really Friendship? - Mrs. Lincoln & Mrs. Keckley: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner; Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
90s Hard Sci Fi Classic - Quarantine by Greg Egan
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
Whenever my mother drove us from coastal Mississippi to New Orleans to visit my father on the weekend, she would say, “Lock the doors.” - Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward; Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward
Not all Monsters are evil - Fire by Kristin Cashore
Have I told you about my lord and savior, Tana French? (Bingo – Shelfie) - Faithful Place by Tana French
On racial, ethnic, and cultural identity development - Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
Maybe You Should (EVERYONE SHOULD) Read This Book! (Bingo – Happy) - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
The Grass is Always Greener Near the Deserted Medieval Village - A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym
“You would think that at this moment I would be in utter despair. Here’s what’s strange. The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I wish.” - Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins
“Here’s some advice. Stay alive.” - The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins
An introduction to Tortall - Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce; In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce; The Woman who Rides like a Man by Tamora Pierce; Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce
In June 1938 Virginia Woolf published Three Guineas, her brave, unwelcome reflections on the roots of war. - Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
There was absolutely no reason to get up in the mornings any more. - Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa
Everyone should read this book, but the people who need it most won’t. (CBR12Bingo: How To) - A Field Guide to Lies by Daniel Levitin
And I think Nimmo the cat knows more than they are letting on - Lightfall: The Girl and the Galdurian by Tim Probert
I’ll Definitely Be Reading More By This Author - Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Late to the party, but so glad I finally made it! - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
It Can’t Be All About White Women - Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall
I’d sing this one for supper - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
One of the best books I’ll read this year - The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
A Landmark Read - Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
There are *Infinite* Right Answers - Sweetest in the Gale by Olivia Dade
Her name was Magda. - Death in her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
Sth, I know that woman. - Jazz by Toni Morrison
The reign of Henry VIII is one of the most fascinating in English history. - The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir