Casino - The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice by David Hill
Social justice and poetry - Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne
King Her - The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
“All she knows is that she is tired, and he is the place she wants to rest. And that, somehow, she was happy. But it is not love.” - The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab
If You Aren’t Reading Ilona Andrews, You Should Be. - Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews
Couple of stinkers off on an adventure - Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World by Jacqueline Davies
How to be Ace? Anyway you want to! - How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess
A Cinnamon Roll Monster Boyfriend who Bakes Cinnamon Rolls. - Deal With the Demon by Chace Verity
“The practice of yoga teaches us to live fully.” - Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom by B.K.S. Iyengar
Cranes keep landing as night falls. - The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Sexy magic boots - Kicking It by Faith Hunter and Kalayna Price
Blacking out BINGO with Liz Lighty and her crown. #CBRBingo – Violet - You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
A personal view of intersectional feminism, narrated by the author. - Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
How I spent my Christmas vacation - Greenglass House by Kate Milford
So This Is Why Geralt Is So Reticent - The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it. - The Big Short by Michael Lewis
The tree of our family was parted – branches here, roots there – parted for their lumber. - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Good and fun historical romance - Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
Can you imagine a life where all you have to do is summer in the Italian countryside? - A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The cab turned off U.S. 101 in the direction of the sea. - The Moving Target by Ross MacDonald
The first thing they always did was run you. - Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Fools for Love - Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
“Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.” - Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann
Pandemic Through My Generation - Severance by Ling Ma
Magical Friendship: cbr12bingo – “Friendship” - Phoebe and Her Unicorn in The Magic Storm by Dana Simpson
Jack (Prelutsky) is back! - Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems by Jack Prelutsky
A Dandelion by any other name probably wouldn’t be a dandelion, but these ARE great poems - Dandelion by Gabbie Hanna
A mistaken identity that leads to ones true identity - Ana on the Edge by A. J. Sass
Murderbot lives up to the hype: cbr12bingo – “Fresh Start” - All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries 1 by Martha Wells
This review is sponsored by TheShop – The world’s most popular online retailer - Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling
“The world’s richest people per capita were becoming the world’s most murdered.” (Bingo #6!) - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
“Honey, I’ve watched a lot of 90210. The parents weren’t even on the show once Brandon and Brenda went to college. This is your time – you’re supposed to going to frat parties and getting back together with Dylan.” - Fangirl, Volume 1 by Rainbow Rowell, Sam Maggs, Gabi Nam
“Knowledge wasn’t always power. Sometimes it was crippling.” - The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11) by Louise Penny
This book is Too Much but I still liked it. - The Memory of Souls (A Chorus of Dragons, #3) by Jenn Lyons
The cover artist more than earned her money on this one. Also I need to buy a copy and read it again. - Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
“May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.” - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Big, stinky dog living under porch with a suitcase full of $400k and explosives. - The Drifter (Peter Ash, #1) by Nicholas Petrie
She overcame death to win Gold - Unbeatable Betty: Betty Robinson, the First Female Olympic Track Field Gold Medalist by Allison Crotzer Kimmel
How Grossly Do They Insult Us - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Old before I become a god (a.k.a. Hadrien, no slacker) - Memoirs of Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar
This one was a win for me! - When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
“You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes – two people. One is le bon Dieu – and the other is Hercule Poirot.” - The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6) by Agatha Christie
This is my white whale if I were Ahab, and Ahab sort of went up to Moby Dick and gently poked it with a spear and then backed away over and over again for months, and the whale just sat there looking at him, going, seriously? #CBRBingo – White Whale - The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3) by Ada Palmer
There are no guarantees, but you can talk yourself out of trying for a good thing. - Get It Right by Skye Kilaen
Behold… - The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
The Cosmere Re-Read Strikes Again #CBRBingo – Gateway - Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
“We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.” - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Practice dating quickly evolves into the real thing - His Grumpy Childhood Friend by Jackie Lau
Quite possibly Jackie Lau’s food-porniest book yet - Her Big City Neighbor by Jackie Lau