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“The ace world is not an obligation. Nobody needs to identify, nobody is trapped, nobody needs to stay forever and pledge allegiance. The words are gifts. If you know which terms to search, you know how to find others who might have something to teach.” (Bingo Blackout & Cannonball!)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

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Books have answers, and that is one of the reasons I love them. The past few years I’ve spent some time digging into me, and how I work, and how much of what I have presented to the outside world was authentic, and how much was what I had been expected to do. I had some knowledge of aces and asexuality before reading this particularly as one of my friends is ace and has been out for at least the decade I’ve known her, probably […]

If you haven’t already but you are able to do so, please get vaccinated. And get a flu shot.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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BINGO – Book Club (CBR Book Club selection for 2020) A pandemic has wiped out most of the population of Earth. Very few survive to see the world collapse, but there they are. Some go wild. Some dive head first into fringe religious belief. Some take refuge in music and theater. Everyone, though, in one way or another, is trying to do more than just survive. Told through a multiple timelines, points of view, and narrative styles, Station Eleven tells the story of how people cope with […]

A Swedish Forrest Gump

The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

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Allan Karlsson is about to turn 100 years old and he is bored. He’s stuck in a nursing home which has a bunch of very annoying rules and not nearly the excitement he has become accustomed to. With very little in the way of plans, but considerable luck- and true to the book’s title- Karlsson climbs out of the window and into an adventure. The events snowball from there to include theft, inadvertent murder, car crashes, an escaped elephant and a love story- and that’s […]

Home Is Where You Make It

The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela

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In 2010, Natasha, a lecturer at a university in Scotland, is shocked when her student Oz is arrested in her presence as a possible jihadist, especially as she has become close to him and his mother. In the 19th century, Imam Shamil, Natasha’s research subject and one of Oz’s ancestors, is the leader of the Caucasian resistance against Imperial Russia. In an effort to turn the tide and to get his son Jamaleldin back, who was kidnapped by Russian forces many years earlier and has […]

OTT everything, with the Jeff Bezos song as a Soundtrack

Kings of Quarantine: A Dark High School Bully Romance (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep Book 1) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

Kings of Lockdown: A Dark High School Bully Romance (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep Book 2) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

Kings of Anarchy: A Dark High School Bully Romance (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep Book 3) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

Queen of Quarantine (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep Book 4) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

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This quartet has been all over my Kindle Unlimited recommendations as well as SmutTok. I was hesitant to give it a try – for while I seem to have an enormous weakness for romances featuring alphaholes (Hey, Kristen Ashley and JR Ward, I’m looking at you…), I’m not a huge fan of bully romances. And Kings of Quarantine, Kings of Lockdown, Kings of Anarchy and Queen of Quarantine all live up to their tagline: Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep. It is a finger scorching, reverse […]

playing catch-up while playing bingo!

Kink: Stories by R. O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Swapna Krishna, Jenn Northington

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

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Hey y’all- long time, no read! I took some time off from reviewing while on vacation, then let vacation mind take over all of my non-work mind and found myself in a reviewing hole. Then, work swallowed me whole. I started writing this on August 9th. Just finishing it now on the 29th-Cait Also, I haven’t been reading reviews here either, so be prepared for a wave of comments coming your way! Good news: I truly enjoyed all seven of these books. One was a […]



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