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New Castle's Kadunce Murders: Mystery and the Devil in Northwest Pennsylvania by Dale Richard Perelman

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CBRBINGO13: Home Square (BINGO! The Wilds square to Book Club square) I think this close to Halloween, it’s fitting that I picked a book about a murder in my hometown that haunted my middle school dreams. New Castle is a small rust belt town about an hour and 1/2 northwest of Pittsburgh. By the time I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, most of the city was already in decline as local industry and jobs dried up. It wasn’t a bad place to […]

But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

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CBR13 BINGO: Mythic Square BINGO! (Book Club Square to Free Square diagonal) I was looking for something to tick the “Mythic” square off my CBR Bingo card and wanted something that was heavy on the re-telling and light on requiring PhD level knowledge of Greek mythology in order to “get it.” This fit the bill but I think if I had a better memory for the mythology class I took 100 years ago in college it would have been helpful. This a YA mythic send […]

No, I think you’re highly intelligent. It’s not lucky for you, in a lot of ways. If you were a little bit stupider you might have an easier life.

Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney

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CBR13 BINGO: Reader’s Choice (in the New Series Square) BINGO! Book Club Square to Machinery Square I don’t think that I have ever had this much of a love/hate reaction to a book. Truly. Everything that I loved about Rooney’s Normal People is here. All of the awkwardness and raw emotion. Everything that I really didn’t like about Conversations with Friends is here too. All of the self indulgent naval gazing histrionics. Ugh. The plot is not complex even if the characters think that they are. The entire story revolves around four […]

It’s okay to be the teacup with a chip in it.

The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

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CBR BINGO: Self Care Square I’m not a big reader of “self help” books. Not to say that I couldn’t benefit from one. I’m Gen X and I think we tend to lean a little hard on self reliance with a dash of the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality. That isn’t necessarily healthy, so I thought I would try to tackle this square and broader my horizons a little bit. (Reason #5,674 on my why I love CBR Bingo list) I loved The Midnight Library and […]

It was happening again. Another fight with narrow-minded, hateful people.

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR BINGO: Shelfie (because I had this sitting on my shelf wayyyyyyy past it’s library due date.) Book 3 in the Court of Thorns and Roses DID NOT DISAPPOINT. Breaking what I call “the third book slump” in most series, this book was by far my favorite. My devotion to these characters is getting deep, people. I’m in Outlander love territory here. I can see its shortcomings. I recognize the sometimes messy history and repetitive phrasing, but, I’m all in. This is a book about […]

Every man you ever meet is nothing but the product of what was withheld from him, what he feels owed.

What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

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CBR13 BINGO: Travel (Alexandria Egypt to a Mediterranean island) BINGO! (Free to Machinery row) I love it when CBR Bingo brings something into my life that I may not have picked up otherwise. On the hunt for the “Travel” square, this title jumped out from the new book display at my library and turned out to be one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. When bodies wash up on a small Mediterranean island, the local officials gather the remains and comb through the detritus of […]



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