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An Engrossing Read

High Towers by Thomas B. Costain

October 4, 2026 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Can’t find the cover – it’s a red hardcover Doubleday dated 1949 cbr18bingo Wealth I was such a Costain fan in my teenage years, since Palm Springs summers are long and hot and we only got to the library once a week.  And if you are speedy reader, you want a book that you can sink your teeth into, and Costain delivered.  Locations varied, time lines varied, but it was always a good meaty situation with plenty of believable characters.  And even now, once again, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Canadian and American history, cbr18bingo Wealth, Dispicable husband but he doesn't last long, Families galore, French settlements in the New World, La Ville de Montreal, Smart heroine, Thomas B. Costain, Very Beginning New Orleans

elderberrywine's CBR18 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Canadian and American history, cbr18bingo Wealth, Dispicable husband but he doesn't last long, Families galore, French settlements in the New World, La Ville de Montreal, Smart heroine, Thomas B. Costain, Very Beginning New Orleans ·
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Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

October 4, 2026 by Classic 2 Comments

Well this was probably the best time travel horror novel I have read in some time. Yes, that includes 11/22/63 which still makes me mad. I also thought this was the best Harrison book I have read in some time too. She’s been a little miss for me lately, but I keep reading her because I absolutely adored Black Sheep. Kiss Slay Replay has so many great things about it, but honestly I think it’s that Harrison fully develops the main character, Willa, and her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: Kiss Slay Replay, Rachel Harrison

Classic's CBR18 Review No:125 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance · Tags: Kiss Slay Replay, Rachel Harrison ·
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Casey Strikes Out

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

October 3, 2026 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Casey Han graduates Princeton without a job, having deferred her Columbia Law School acceptance without telling her parents, hard-working Korea immigrants who manage a dry cleaners in Queens. After a nasty confrontation with her father, she is forced to move out, the relationship forever strained. When her plan to move in with her white-guy college boyfriend falls through in the most embarrassing fashion, Casey is a woman cast adrift. Eventually, through the remarkable kindness of Ella, a girl from church, Casey finds a place to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Min Jin Lee

jeverett15's CBR18 Review No:73 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Min Jin Lee ·
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Hockey and romance

Bombshells by Sarina Bowen

October 3, 2026 by Sophia Leave a Comment

I went through a phase some years ago where I read a lot of books by Sarina Bowen because I found them fun and entertaining. Recently, I was looking for good road trip books, and I looked her up again. I realized that I had missed a couple, and decided now was the time to do some catch up. I’m not sure if I intentionally skipped over Bombshells (2021) or I somehow missed it, but I was happy to find another Bowen book that I had not […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Featured, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Sarina Bowen

Sophia's CBR18 Review No:39 · Genres: Audiobooks, Featured, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Sarina Bowen ·
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Gentle Heroine Navigates Catastrophe

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

October 3, 2026 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Bingo: Refuge. The main character Anna serves as a refuge to others in times of hardship. My dad likes to poke fun at my tendency to read about heavy topics. When I told him I was reading a book about the plague, he thought it was par for the course. But as horrifying as the Black Plague was, Year of Wonders manages to be a beautiful tale of resilience, care, and healing. Which is not to say it’s a light book, but it is a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr18bingo, Geraldine Brooks

esmemoria's CBR18 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr18bingo, Geraldine Brooks ·
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“For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people’s way of committing suicide.” (“The Dreamers”)

Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen

October 3, 2026 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

I have an almost forty-year history with Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen); I spent the night I was born apparently listening to my mother read Out of Africa/Shadows on the Grass out loud. (A year or two ago I managed to read them myself, as I hated not knowing how it ended.) Which sparked in me a curiosity to read some of her fiction, and this was the first book of hers I found in my TBR heap. Seven Gothic Tales, as the title suggests, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Danish author, gothic fiction, Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Danish author, gothic fiction, Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen ·
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