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2 Star Reviews

A poor murder mystery in sci-fi clothing - One Way by S.J. Morden

#CBR Bingo: #Cannonbookclub (Bingo #5) - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

I’m sorry. I can’t. Don’t hate me. - The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan

Been on my Backlog for a while, but sort of wish I’d never read it (BINGO 2!) - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

They’re not saying “boo”, they’re saying “Truuuuuuue”…Detective - Night Train by Martin Amis

This didn’t even get me a bingo - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

What is Up With the Gross Stereotypes?! - 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad

Makes me not want to read any more Brontë. - Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Living in my worst nightmare - The Girl Before by JP Delaney

Posts review and runs away - Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

I was expecting something different - Twain's Feast by Andrew Beahrs

“But I do think that when we choose the easy path, where people or society reward us for being what they want us to be, against who we really are, a kind of death occurs. To the soul.” - Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg

Not my idea, was it yours? - Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham

So bad it made me make up a bad metaphor - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Not-very good men do not very good things - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Well That Turned Sexist! - The Girl Before: A Novel by JP Delaney

Post your fave Craigy Ferg clips in the comments so we can have something nice to talk about instead 🙂 #CBRBingo - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Well it felt like a chore - First jobs by Merritt Watts

Wizard! You shall not pass! - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuin

Well, I got my center square - Between the bridge and the river by Craig ferguson

“Sisters, sisters There were never such devoted sisters” - The Yin-Yang Sisters and the Dragon Frightful by Nancy Tupper Ling

Obviously when pigs fly….. - The Dreamer by Il Sung Na

The Magic’s Gone - Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link

Not My Wheelhouse … BINGO! - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Nine lost civilizations and one completely mythical city - Lost Civilizations: 10 Societies That Vanished Without a Trace by Michael Rank

And yet I’m going to read the third one - China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

I feel let-down (thank godtopus this isn’t my Cannonball book) BINGO #2 - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

Maybe It’s Better in the Original French? (CBR10 BINGO) - L’art de la Simplicite by Dominique Loreau

In which I determine I don’t like “choose your own adventure” books - Detective Frankenstein: Book 17 (Twisted Journeys) by Alaya Johnson author, Yuko Ota illustrator

The trippiest trip you’ll ever take - I'm From the Sun: The Gustafer Yellowgold Story by Morgan Taylor

#CBR10Bingo: AlabamaPink – The Dud Avocado (First bingo!) - The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

This is Kind of Absolute Garbage - My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

Audrey is Great. This Book? Not So Much. (CBR10Bingo) - Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto

The Musical Must Be Better (CBR10 BINGO) - Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Macguire

I was sad that I didn’t like this more. - Mother Ghost: Nursery Rhymes for Little Monsters by Rachel Kolar, Roland Garrigue

And Then There Were Satanists … The Legacy - The Legacy by John Coyne

But what of Barry the swim instructor? Does he get a happy ending? - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

When reality ruins your escapism - Save the Date by Morgan Matson

I Didn’t HATE Hate List…But I Didn’t Like it Either - Hate List by Jennifer Brown

“If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing” - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

I don’t think it’s aged all that well (Plus, half Cannonball!) - The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

In which I parody Kurt Vonnegut to stick it to cancer - God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut

Is it a letdown if you expect it to be bad? - Hero At The Fall by Alwyn Hamilton

The author is inadvertently his own villain - Off To Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer

More Witchy Irish Stereotypes then you can shake a stick at (Bingo #3) - Dark Witch by Nora Roberts

Casablance, this is not - Tangerine by Christine Mangan

FRAMED FOR MURDER!!! (Yawn) - The Guilty Wife by Elle Croft

Girl On The Train, by a dude - The Woman In The Window by A. J. Finn

If they make a movie of this one, I hope it also has Tim Daly in it. - My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley

I didn’t love this, but its one million percent worth the purchase simply to hear HJB make up potential titles for the porn he accidentally appeared in. - Failure is an Option by H Jon Benjamin

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