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3 Star Reviews

What is your reading mood today? - This Book Will Get You to Sleep by Jory John; I am the Storm by Jane Yolen

“I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, ‘Why did you do it? How?’ The answer is, How could I not?” (Bingo#1) - All the Young Men: a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South by Ruth Coker Burks, Kevin Carr O'Leary

The Rich Eat You - Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

“If this is the last decision I can ever make, at least it is my decision. Let me go, Alyosha. I am not afraid.” - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Why, yes: I do like fall best. It is just the superior season. I won’t be entertaining arguments. - Sophie's Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller; Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story by Pat Zietlow Miller

It’s a relationship reboot! In Hollywood! With cake! - Hollywood Ending by Tash Skilton

Shooters Gotta Shoot - Billy Summers by Stephen King

An extraordinary life, ordinarily told - Confessions of an Art Addict by Peggy Guggenheim

I almost gave up on my white whale 100 times… - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Vicious Vixens - The Corpse Wore Pasties by Johnny Porkpie

I did not see that coming - Sea Witch by Sarah Henning

Scarier than a really scary thing. - The Twelve by Justin Cronin

A series I am sad to see go. - The Desolation of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

A more than sufficient ending. - Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

Not-so-Normal People - Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

There Goes The Neighborhood - Echo Park by Michael Connelly

And all for a spot of snow. - The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown by Julia Quinn, Suzanne Enoch, Karen Hawkins, Mia Ryan

Space Spiders! - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

“What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?” - White Night by Jim Butcher

A Kennedy I know little about. - The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher

My Life with Ariel - Sea Witch by Sarah Henning; The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

Dragons of Dwarven Depths – Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (2006) - Dragons of Dwarven Depths by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason – Helen Fielding (2001) - Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding

If Rube Goldberg had written humorous novels… - Cocktail Time by P.G. Wodehouse

Still just OK the second time around - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Epilogue is the best part - The Dark Archive by Genevieve Cogman

Recipes and Stories from Canada would be enough - Taste the Wild by Lisa Nieschlag, Lars Wentrup

The Best, But Also Frustrating - Bittman Bread by Mark Bittman and Karri Conan

a mermaid’s tail made of donkey skin (a dual cbr13bingo and #cannonbookclub adventure!) - Deerskin by Robin McKinley; Sea Witch by Sarah Henning

Two Touching Stories - Typewriter by Yevgenia Nayberg; No Ordinary Jacket by Sue-Ellen Pashley

Can’t find “the one”? Build him. - The Plus One by Sarah Archer

Yeh it’s pretty scary. - The Passage by Justin Cronin

“Forget about the war,” Mia insisted. “Tell us about…” your boring alien love interest - Elite Starfighter by Grace Goodwin

“Sometimes people don’t make sense.” Girl, sometimes the whole dang plot doesn’t make sense. - Starfighter Command by Grace Goodwin

A glimmer of hope to all the teens who are a little bit off… - The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle

The World’s Deadliest Animal - The Fever: How Malaria has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah

Funny but a little bit dated in LGBTQ+ depiction - Practical Demonkeeping: Pine Cove Series, 1 by Christopher Moore

a #cannonbookclub favorite RETURNS! - It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi

The Importance of the Library - Deal With the Devil by Kit Rocha

It’s not you, it’s me. I think? - Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

Another Girl-Gone-Missing for Aficionados of the Genre, but the Conclusion Just Didn’t Work for Me - Little Monsters by Kara Thomas

German Romanticism 101 - Immensee by Theodor Storm

Yes, David we will read your books - A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon; The Rain Came Down by David Shannon

Art Show - Jackson Pollock Splashed Paint and Wasn’t Sorry by Fausto Gilberti; Yves Klein painted Everything Blue and Wasn’t Sorry by Fausto Gilberti; Banksy Graffitied Walls and Wasn’t Sorry by Fausto Gilberti

Ridiculous but enjoyable - The First Starfighter by Grace Goodwin

What was that ending? - Amatka by Karin Tidbeck

You don’t want a ticket for this carnival - Carnival of Souls: Graphic Novel by Jazan Wild

I am me and you are you and both are awesome so lets be friends! - Lili Macaroni by Nicole Testa; Danbi Leads the School Parade by Anna Kim

Thank you, Bothari43, for helping me complete my first bingo of 2021! - Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

A Brief Moment in Time– In the Stories and In My Mind Alike - Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

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