The Last Kind Words Saloon – Larry McMurtry (2014) - The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry
The Godfather got a magic system and I didn’t care for it - Jade City by Fonda Lee
An Attempt Was Made - Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
Now I Can (Also) Die in Peace - Now I Can Die in Peace by Bill Simmons
Ragtime – EL Doctorow (1975) - Ragtime by EL Doctorow
How the Heroine Lost Her Appeal - How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge by K. Eason
I wouldn’t have voluntarily picked this one up, and I won’t pick up the sequels - Children of Fire by Drew Karpyshyn
This series goes from wasted potential to actively irritating in this book. - Two Dark Reigns (Three Dark Crowns, #3) by Kendare Blake
Two books I had not intended on reviewing together - The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton; Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly
Not my “best of” but YMMV. - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel; Memorial by Bryan Washington
Professional Development Reading - A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard N. Haass; The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder by Sean McFate; On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis; Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek ; Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
She’s stolen Spiderman’s theme song (kinda) and talks to squirrels - The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Powers of a Squirrel by Ryan North
What the hell, Dad? - The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan
I’m not sorry this one’s almost over - The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (Vol. 4) by Usata Nonohara, Ox (illustrator)
A slippery mystery - Banana Fox and the Secret Sour Society by James Kochalka
A disappointment, a pleasant surprise, and an I-should-have-known-better. - Well Played by Jen DeLuca; Not Like the Movies by Kerry Winfrey; Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev
I understand why people like these books; I’m just not one of them - The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Sorry, I’m just not the audience - Above All Else by Dana Alison Levy
Great potential, horrible execution - Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
Something to Write About - Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
I’ve read scarier ghost stories for kids - The Family Plot by Cherie Priest
I have finally finished this mostly terrible, sometimes entertaining, always opinionated epic fantasy series. - Confessor (The Sword of Truth, #11) by Terry Goodkind
Disappointing - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
All the good things about her had to be taken away, too. - Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
Mediocre installments in two different series by the same author - A Death Long Overdue by Eva Gates; Tea & Treachery by Vicki Delany
Good news / bad news - The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony snicket
I’m not sure why this book is so popular - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Not as good as I hoped - To Drink and to Eat, Volume 2 by Guillaume Long
The characters have as much personality and development as chess pieces - The Queen’s Gambit: A Novel by Walter Tevis
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad…House - It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan
Mysterious Healers That Leave Things a Little Too Mysterious - Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford
“God knows we are not perfect and simply invites us to try again.” - The Catholic Hipster Handbook: Rediscovering Cool Saints, Forgotten Prayers, and Other Weird but Sacred Stuff by Tommy Tighe
Get my rocker, Gert….I’m officially old - Warm Blood by Josh Tierney
less practical, more magical - The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
This American Platypus. - Educating the Platypus by Charlie Richards
The mafia and romance? - Violet by Sophie Lark
Right here and now, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarantees perfect vision. - Black House by Stephen King
Important but disappointing - The Last Suttee by Madhu Bazaz Wangu
Another one on the meh pile - The Wicked Boy The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
I can’t even with this book - The Great Symmetry by James R. Wells
I got the twos for you - Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse by Jonathan Stutzman; I See a Shadow by Laura Breen
Hard to really make a successful prequel, and this book doesn’t change my opinion of that. - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0) by Suzanne Collins
Didn’t land the dismount (CBR12Bingo 2: Pandemic) - The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
I’m never crossing a rope bridge again - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
What are the readers on Goodreads smoking? - Storm Front by Jim Butcher
I keep singing the title of this to the tune of “Animals” by Maroon 5 for some reason… - Renegades by Marissa Meyer
The cover makes the book look more exciting than it is - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Can’t compete with Red, White, and Royal Blue - The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
CBR12 Book Bingo – Cannonballer Says - Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman