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4 Star Reviews

Laundry Day is Seriously the Worst - Longbourn by Jo Baker

If Scott Kelly can vote in the midterms elections from ISS then you can vote in November from Earth - Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly

My Broken House Behind Me and Good Things Ahead - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

“What are you, Jackson, the last good man standing?” - Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

A love story I could really get behind - Spiderman/Deadpool Volume 1: Isn't It Bromantic by Joe Kelly; Ed McGuinness

And You Thought Your Family Was Bad at Sharing Information - Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire

A Woman Will Always Sacrifice Herself - Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

Snubbed? Sure, but still a winning story - The Birchback House by Louise Erdrich

“When am I giving up? I’m not. I did not give up on myself then. I am not giving up on you now.” (CBR10Bingo) - The Governess Game (Girl Meets Duke #2) by Tessa Dare

“Home was warm and normal until it wasn’t” - Now My Heart is Full by Laura June

Yes, dear ones, the book was indeed better. (CBR10 Bingo) - The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling, pseudonym), Robert Glenister (narrator)

Both the Book and the Film Were Good (CBR10 BINGO) - To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

In the immortal words of Doug Judy, “So why don’t you just chill and eat some sexy-ass lobster?”** - Jake the Fake Keeps it Real by Craig Robinson, Adam Mansbach, Keith Knight

We’ll Always Have Budapest - The Man Who Went Up In Smoke by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

Marriage is, as she says, a peculiar institution - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Damned if you do… - Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson

Because this is not a house for the faint of heart - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Even though someone else said it better - This Body's Not Big Enough For Both of Us by Edgar Cantero

Hardboiled On the Go - Nobody Move by Denis Johnson

“All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person.” (CBR10Bingo) - From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty (writer), Landis Blair (illustrator)

Robert Langdon in Spain - Origin by Dan Brown

Fantastical Pride and Prejudice - Heartstone by Elle Katharine White

Maybe in a different time and a different place… - Ask For Me Tomorrow by Margaret Millar

The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans - Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans by Tina M. Cho

Louise is a brave, fearless, feathered chicken. Yes. Chicken. - Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo

Find your inner superheroine - Heroine Complex, Heroine Worship, Heroine's Journey by Sarah Kuhn

Attention, fans of Tana French! - The Burning Air by Erin Kelly

Män som hatar kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women) - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse or does he? - Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse by Marcy Campbell

Explore friendship, crushes, and all-around drama! - Drama by Raina Telgemeier

War, what is it good for? (A bloody good book, that’s what) - Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

A Different Kind of Spy Novel - The Secret Lovers by Charles McCarry

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t” - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Alex Verus was having a bad life - Bound (Alex Verus #8) and Marked (Alex Verus #9) by Benedict Jacka

Caught out in the rain in the most dangerous Magic Tree House mission yet! - Hurricane Heroes in Texas #30 by Mary Pope Osborne

It’s storming outside, but inside we are snug and reading! - Strom by Sam Usher

A man falls in love with a woman he’s never met because he reads her e-mails. Wait don’t go!! No, it’s charming, really I promise!! - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

While I’ll miss them coming to my store, I did not miss their gem of a book! - Good Rosie by Kate DiCamillo

We need books like this….. - You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino

Locked room murder mystery, in space! - Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

Plant a seed and watch it grow….read a book and watch your imagination soar - Forest Dreams and Kate, Who Tamed the Wind by Ayano Imai and Liz Garton Scanlon

BINGO! with a bisexual swordsman book from the 1980s. — #CBRBingo - Swordspoint (Riverside, #1) by Ellen Kushner

“How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought . . .” #CBRBingo - Bad News (Patrick Melrose, #2) by Edward St. Aubyn

“From the stars, came the ground. From the ground, we stood. To the ground, we return.” - Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3) by Becky Chambers

“It was stupid not to live your life to the fullest when you could die tomorrow, and I sure as shit wasn’t about to take hell for that from some macho skullhead idiot.” - Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1) by Rachel Bach

Fall in love whenever you can - The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Show Me the Essence of Being Lonely - Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

CBR Bingo- Delicious - Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat by Chrissy Teigen, Adeena Sussman

CBR Bingo- BINGO! Throwback Thursday - Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Ghostbusting in Harry Potter-ville - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

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