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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

“I am proud to be part machine.”

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

September 7, 2025 by stegolily Leave a Comment

Cannonball Read Bingo: I am counting this book for the “N” square. Anwuli Okwudili is a young Nigerian woman who goes by AO, or “Autobionic Organism.” Due to an array of birth defects, followed by a freak car accident when she was a teenager, AO relies on cybernetic arms, legs, and organs to survive and function. But though she lives in a society where body augmentations are seen as unnatural, inhuman, and even sinful, AO is proud of who she is, both human and machine. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, cbrbingo17, Nnedi Okorafor

stegolily's CBR17 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, cbrbingo17, Nnedi Okorafor ·
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Bewitching

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

September 4, 2025 by wicherwill 3 Comments

BINGO: Diaspora! hot take the horror vibes are stronger with this one, but the issue is that we know the monster is real and therefore are just waiting for the shoe to drop. I was so into Mexican Gothic that I keep picking up Moreno-Garcia’s work, hoping to find the same spark. That being said, I find in general that her writing doesn’t quite grab me, and the plot usually falls a bit flat, so they end up being pretty consistently 3* works. I should also note […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: cbrbingo17, silvia moreno-garcia

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:39 · Genres: Horror · Tags: cbrbingo17, silvia moreno-garcia ·
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Crime podcasts, grandmas and small town Texas

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

August 27, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Review I saw Malin’s review of this a few weeks ago and picked it up because I enjoy a good mystery novel. Lucy left her home town Texas five years ago and hasn’t been back since, settling in LA. Her best friend Savvy (Savannah) was murdered back then, and everyone suspected Lucy. Hell, even Lucy occasionally suspects Lucy but she doesn’t remember that night. She isn’t exactly living the most fulfilling life but she is surviving except now she’s about to have to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Amy Tintera, cbrbingo17

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:84 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Amy Tintera, cbrbingo17 ·
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When the skeptic becomes borderline unlikable

I’ll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong

August 24, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Border (with seances and Ouija boards, it’s the boundaries/borders between life and the afterlife/supernatural) This one was a bit of a miss for me for Kelley Armstrong – I really loved her Women of the Otherworld series, and in general, her other novels, whether supernatural or romance, tend to work for me. This specific novel is one of the supernatural/paranormal ones – the main character and narrator is Nic, a new widow after her husband Anton died in a car crash less than […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbrbingo17, I’ll be waiting, Kelley Armstrong, paranormal, supernatural

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbrbingo17, I’ll be waiting, Kelley Armstrong, paranormal, supernatural ·
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Cover of Sarah MacLean’s These Summer Storms

“I Notice You” Her whole life she tried hard not to be noticed, but it never felt as dangerous as it was when this man – all strong hands and set jaw – noticed her. As if she didn’t have enough mess to contend with.”

These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean

August 13, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

Do you have any authors that you feel like, if you met them in real life, you’d just automatically be friends? Something about their voice, their tone, their sense of humor, the way their background characters lovingly put up with their stupid-ass, obviously-in-love-but-too-blind-to-see-it best friends : Just something about how they write hits you exactly right and you’re convinced, “Yes, this person and I are obviously simpatico, long-lost BFFs”? The author that most fits into that category for me is Sarah MacLean. Now, this may be […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: cbrbingo17, families, Romance, Sarah Maclean, These Summer Storms

NTE's CBR17 Review No:19 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbrbingo17, families, Romance, Sarah Maclean, These Summer Storms ·
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I miss publicly funded library systems that cover entire regions ❤️ NYPL

Where You're Planted by Melanie Sweeney

August 8, 2025 by wicherwill 3 Comments

Bingo: work! hot take bad hurricane preparedness abounds in this book that preaches flying by the seat of your pants and fixing the resultant issues as… independent women being feminist? Our main characters here are Tansy, a children’s services librarian who becomes the de facto branch manager after a “thousand-year-flood” ruins her Houston area library building, and Jack, a surly gardener and newly promoted Head Director of a botanical garden in the same region. With the library out of commission and half of the staff […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: cbrbingo17, Melanie Sweeney

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:38 · Genres: Romance · Tags: cbrbingo17, Melanie Sweeney ·
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