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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

“Even as a small child, nothing pleased her more about their travels than the ride home”

The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik

October 13, 2026 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The Tall Pine Polka is my final book for Re-Readathon 2026 – a comfort re-read and a book I annotated. It had been a long time since I had read this last, since 2013 in fact. My experience this time wasn’t quite the same as it had previously been. I remained mostly interested in the interpersonal relationships of the denizens of the Cup O’Delight cafe, especially the ones between Fenny, Lee, and Bill. But this time some of the hiccups of this book being published […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr18bingo, comfort read, Lorna Landvik, ONE, rereadathon

faintingviolet's CBR18 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr18bingo, comfort read, Lorna Landvik, ONE, rereadathon ·
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CBR BINGO: Craft—Author writing fanfiction of her own book!

The Sixth Faction (The Sixth Faction, #1) by Veronica Roth

October 13, 2026 by narfna 1 Comment

This is a four star book but I’m giving it an extra .25, because I can now! And because I was so into this when it’s been so hard for me lately to really be into and finish new books. I let my curiosity get the better of me with this one. I was really into Divergent when it was first published, and then the second two books devolved into something very disappointing, which at the time made me angry, but I just don’t think […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr18bingo, Divergent, duology, narfna, professional fanfiction, retellings, The Sixth Faction, Veronica Roth, Young Adult

narfna's CBR18 Review No:25 · Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: cbr18bingo, Divergent, duology, narfna, professional fanfiction, retellings, The Sixth Faction, Veronica Roth, Young Adult ·
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Opus the Penguin Stories

A Wish for Wings that Work: An Opus Christmas Story by Berkeley Breathed

The Last Basselope: One Ferocious Story by Berkeley Breathed

Goodnight Opus by Berkeley Breathed

October 12, 2026 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I don’t know about you, but I keep a shelf of my childhood favorite books amongst the rest of my books. Re-Readathon had a prompt for re-reading a childhood favorite, so I knew I had some on hand, but I forgot that I didn’t have a copy of Strega Nona until I went looking for it. So, once staring at the shelf I grabbed my copy of A Wish for Wings that Work: An Opus Christmas Story by Berkeley Breathed and also The Last Basselope […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Berkeley Breathed, cbr18bingo, Children's Books, christmas book, Opus, Picture Books, You

faintingviolet's CBR18 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Berkeley Breathed, cbr18bingo, Children's Books, christmas book, Opus, Picture Books, You ·
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Irredeemable First Person

You by Caroline Kepnes

October 11, 2026 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Bingo: Map. Obsessive narrator maps every detail of his stalkee’s life. Have you ever read a book so awful it actually made you angry? Such is Caroline Kepnes’s You for me. The plot is easily summed up: a deranged bookstore worker fixates on a customer, getting more and more obsessed so that he commits multiple murders. He follows her, he accesses her email, he is a peeping tom, he sexually obsesses in repulsive fashion. The narrator is absolutely repugnant. The murders are the least of […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Caroline Kepnes, cbr18bingo

esmemoria's CBR18 Review No:42 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Caroline Kepnes, cbr18bingo ·
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Dear Faerie: This is Why Children Go No-Contact With Their Parents

A Divided Duty by Seanan McGuire

October 11, 2026 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

Trust the faeries to bring on the soap opera messes. One of the consequences of being both incredibly long lived—or even effectivly immortal—and being so variant that you’re more of a species cluster than a true cohesive group is that when the interpersonal dramas hit, they really hit. If you constructed a push-pin map that covered October Daye’s friends, family and allegiances at the start of the series and now, at book twenty, you would be shocked at how things have changed.  But let’s take […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Blood Everywhere, cbr18bingo, faeries, October Daye, repair, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:32 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Blood Everywhere, cbr18bingo, faeries, October Daye, repair, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy ·
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Let’s Show The Buggers That We Will Rule This Place Again From Their Waste

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

October 10, 2026 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Have you ever gotten the feeling that here, in the time we find ourselves in, that perhaps everything is just a bit to much? Life is an omnishambles and you can’t bare to open the news because you can’t stand to see the news; is anyone going to care about the threats of climate change or emerging pandemics; does anyone really care about the future we are leaving our children? Forget the future, does the government care about children right here, right now? Or is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Aboriginal & Indigenous, alexis wright, Australia, cbr18bingo, Stella Prize, You

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Aboriginal & Indigenous, alexis wright, Australia, cbr18bingo, Stella Prize, You ·
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