Delightful - Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
Brexiteers - Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carré
Waiting for the end of the world - I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi
cbr12bingo – Red! - Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
Power Dynamics - Necessary People by Anna Pitoniak
Technocracy - Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
“What is a whole life? If you die when you’re still a child, is your life whole or half or zero?” - Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
“That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.” - Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver
Pride and Prejudice in modern-day Canada - Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
I’m just suggesting a super casual outing where we do some low-key ogling - Common Goal (Game Changers 4) by Rachel Reid
The very human connection between a young woman and an alien - Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
Was Tracy Flick the proto nasty woman? - Election by Tom Perrotta
A Thorough Exploration of Misogyny - Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
Dean hurries past the Phoenix Theatre, dodges a blind man in dark glass, steps onto Charing Cross Road to overtake a slow-moving woman and pram, leaps a grimy puddle, and swerves onto Denmark Street where he skids on a sheet of black ice. - Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
I’m on Kauai, in Hawaii, today, Friday, August 5, 2005. - What I talk about when I talk about Running by Haruki Murakami
Whelp, another dystopian book. But this one is a bit more hopeful! - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, read by Adam Grupper
Most of this review is whited out spoilers, because I just needed to say some things. - Peace Talks (The Dresden Files, #16) by Jim Butcher
How Do You Hide When You’re an Elephant? - The Elephants’ Guide to Hide-And Seek by Kjersten Hayes
Play Time - Playing Wicked by Alex R. Kahler
Some pods and a couple of friends blast off for adventure - Gurple and Preen: A Broken Crayon Cosmic Adventure by Linda Sue Park
CBR12 Book Bingo – I Wish… - When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People by Jeannie Gaffigan
“There isn’t ever going to be an end,” she said. “The point is that people have to continue always speaking up and not being afraid.” - She Said by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
cbr12bingo – Nostalgia! sweet, silly, stupid nostalgia - Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz, with Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Lethem, Ada Calhoun, Luc Sante, Roy Choi, Amy Poehler, Junit Tondora, Spike Jonze, Ian Rogers, Andre Leon Talley
CBR12 Book Bingo – Yellow - Recursion by Blake Crouch
“If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy.” - Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1) by Andrzej Sapkowski
Grounded in reality, gripping science fiction: cbr12bingo White Whale - SevenEves by Neal Stephenson
The Firm - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Do drop in and find this book - Dewdrop by Katie O’Neill
Loved this book except for one pretty big thing. - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
So much goodness stuffed into one little novella. - The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
It was triumph. More than that, it was bravery. Sheer courage. - Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
I liked this more on re-read in some ways, and a lot less in others. - Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
“I was six years old. I was seven hundred and fifty. I was being hunted.” - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
A Monster Take on Sherlock Holmes - A Study In Emerald by Neil Gaiman
Evolution of a Screwball Comedy - The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
Nepotism - American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps and the Marriage of Money and Power by Andrea Bernstein
Say Their Names - Six Days in Cincinnati by Dan Mendez Moore
The Devil at Your Elbow - When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
“On a little street in Singapore We’d meet beside a lotus-covered door” - The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
“You know those people where it’s like, you know they could kill you, but it would be a privilege to die by their hand?” #CBRBingo – Friendship - Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills
This was so cozy and comforting and lovely. - Two Rogues Make a Right (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #3) by Cat Sebastian
Cat of Four Tales - If It Bleeds by Stephen King
My father, unlike so many of the men he served with, knew just what he wanted to do when the war was over. - The Risk Pool by Richard Russo
“Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives” - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
“They were the minorities of this world whose only recourse was to join this universal orchestra, in which all there was to do was cry and wail.” - An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
More Vacation Reading - Black Edge: Insider Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar; Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Attack on the West by Luke Harding; Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? by Ethan Brown; The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep by Lawrence Block
Ever get the feeling that you’re being watched? - The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
Sure, Sex is Fun, But, Have You Ever Listened to Samantha Irby Read Her Own Book? - Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Every Empire Must Fall - The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan
A sweet telenovela romance. - You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria