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Major Insights: People on the Internet Are Racist, Like Porn, and Lie on Social Media

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

July 4, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR12 BINGO: How-To I work in Marketing, and these days it's all about data. How are you going to measure it? What does success look like? These are the mundane questions I have to answer every day, so reading this book was a bit like work. But, it fits a BINGO square, so I benefitted in the … [Read more]

KimMiE"'s CBR12 Review No:22 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr12, cbr12bingo, Data, How-To, marketing, Seth Stephens-davidowitz ·
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Heavy on the 90s Music Nostalgia

Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-0! by Carly Usdin

July 4, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo Square 1: Music Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! could actually have fit more than one square, but I wanted to start in a corner, and Music is what I’d slotted it for, so this is where it all starts. This is book 2 in a graphic novel series that is set in a music store, whose employees form a band and … [Read more]

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:58 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: carly usdin, cbr12bingo, fight club, Heavy Vinyl Y2K-0!, LGBTQ romance, music, nina vakueva, teen comedy ·
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cbr12bingo – Adaptation!

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

July 4, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

It is 1954, and a young man named Atticus is headed home to Chicago. In Chicago he will find his beloved uncle and aunt, who together run The Safe Negro Travel Guide and Travel Agency. His uncle, like himself, is a lover of pulp novels and dime store comics. His aunt travels the country alone, … [Read more]

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:68 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 1950s America, adaptation, cbr12bingo, Chicago, comic books, cosmic horror, family tree, H.P. Lovecraft, Haunted House, hbo, Jim Crow, lovecraftian, magic, Matt Ruff, occult, pulp horror, Racism, salem, supernatural, tulsa massacre ·
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A Magical Island for Special Children

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

July 4, 2020 by Jen K 1 Comment

Bingo Square: I wish ... (I wish I could be on a beautiful secluded island during social distancing and also have magical powers) I had been seeing a lot of positive buzz around this novel, and naturally, I was curious about a story with supernatural children.  When Gail Carriger used it as part … [Read more]

Jen K's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, cozy fantasy, LGBTQ, orphanage, supernatural children, The house in the cerulean sea, TJ Klune ·
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Dod yn ôl at fy nghoed

The Grey King by Susan Cooper

July 3, 2020 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

Bingo: I Wish. . . The Grey King just might be my favorite fantasy novel for kids. The fourth book in The Dark is Rising series, it has Will Stanton, the last of the Old Ones, on a holiday in Wales where he meets a strange boy named Bran and searches for a golden harp that will aid the Light in … [Read more]

Ellesfena's CBR12 Review No:12 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr12bingo, Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising, wales ·
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Hoping the series picks up in the sequels

The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston

July 3, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo: Cannonballer Says (previously reviewed by alwaysanswerb, yesknopemaybe and teresaelectro) Official book description: Kera Watson never expected to face death behind a Los Angeles coffee shop. Not after surviving two tours lugging an M16 around the Middle East. If it wasn't for her … [Read more]

Malin's CBR12 Review No:33 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Call of Crows, Cannonballer Says!, cbr12, cbr12bingo, fighters, magic, Malin, norse mythology, paranormal fantasy, romantic, Shelly Laurenston, the unleashing ·
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