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There are remnant spirits in this country from another time.

Simon The Fiddler by Paulette Giles

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CBR 13 BINGO: The Wilds Giles’ Map of the World was one of my top 3 for CBR 10. LOVED that little book. My feelings for this one are the same. It hits “The Wilds” bingo square as the bulk of the story is spent travelling all over east Texas: the shores of the Rio Grande, the docks of Galveston, the swamps of Houston and the wagon trail from the Rio Grande Valley to San Antonio. The landscape of post Civil War Texas is one […]

…for in that direction she saw a quiet by preventable tragedy, if only people could be brave enough to go after what they really wanted.

The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

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CBR13 BINGO: People I am not a re-reader. I think that I have only re-read maybe 2-3 books EVER. There are so many books out there, and so little time. I’m not a particularly fast reader so I stick with the new experiences rather than re-living the old. That being said, this novel did have me wondering just why on earth I haven’t suspended my self imposed “rule” for all of the Jane Austen novels. I dragged out the reading of her novels for YEARS because […]

But she was color. All the color he had.

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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CBR BINGO: Fauna Square (cat on the cover) Backman Summer continues and as the kids say: I’m not mad about it. Once I made my way through the two available Beartown books, I knew that I needed to pick this one up as well. I’m sure that I have mentioned in previous reviews that I love, love love a good epic tale. Spanning generations and continents is my bag. In my mind I also tend to throw “epic” around to describe those stories that may span generations […]

Had his retinas not been seared by the Christmas tree dress, her dinner gown would have been the most outlandish thing he witnessed today.

Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas

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CBR BINGO: Free! Square (Library Book) Huzzah! It’s BINGO season. The most wonderful time of the year! Man. I love these books. This is the fifth book in Thomas’ Lady Sherlock Series. It’s a gift that keeps giving when you really fall in love with a group of characters that inhabit a book series. As always, if you haven’t read ’em, what are you waiting for? As this is the fifth book in the series, spoilers inevitably follow. In this installment, Charlotte and her posse are back […]

Sometimes a team needs an enemy to unite them.

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

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Apparently it’s my summer of Backman (or Spring/Summer of Backman since almost 90 degree weather day after day isn’t really summer until the calendar says so). Loved Beartown, so I am more than happy to spend time with its inhabitants in this follow up, regardless of the season. This book picks up shortly after Beartown is turned upside down in the wake of an assault. Sides are drawn and redrawn. Narratives are rewritten. Blame is shifted. Teams are renamed. It’s a whirlwind of gaslighting, denial, anger, shame and […]



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