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4 Star Reviews

The Queen is in the Building. Tell me how you feeling? - The Witch Elm by Tana French

“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark.” - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

“A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.” - Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff

Thanks, CBR10 Bingo, for getting me to read a book I normally wouldn’t! - Skeleton for Dinner by Margery Cuyler, Will Terry

What a way to experience a classic! - Emma by Jane Austen

I’ve just experienced a tutorial for a game I’ll never play - Dungeon Born by Dakota Krout

I was so very often confused, but that’s okay! - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

A Classic, Validating Explainer on Abusive Men - Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft

Trick or Treat smell my….yeah not going there….. - Skelly's Halloween by David Martin

I cannot be Quiet as Tomie has a new book! - Quiet by Tomie dePaola

Three quarters of the way through I finally “got” why cheese was so prominent in this book - Kill the Farmboy by Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne

If you wonder what the Irish were doing in World War II this might answer it…. - Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II by Alan Gratz

This felt a little good to read right now - The Power by Naomi Alderman

One of these days, I’m definitely going to have to learn how to spell Marisha Pessl without looking. - Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

Bingo! Bingo! Bingo! - Dubliners by James Joyce

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

“It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when rich people move into the hood, where it’s a little bit broken and a little bit forgotten, the first thing they want to do is clean it up.” - Pride by Ibi Zoboi

James Ellroy But Condensed And More Entertaining - The Song Is You by Megan Abbott

I Will Sparkle Like a Wealthy Woman’s Neck - Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley

Stripping away the air of glamour to reveal gangsters who were actually pretty crap at robbing banks - Go Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn

I want to own this book - Cravings by Chrissy Teigen and Adeena Sussman

Faerie Tale Noir Still Going Strong - Night and Silence (October Daye) by Seanan McGuire

Offed At The Races - Hex by Maggie Estep

An American Legend, Indeed - Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

A Worthy Follow-Up to a Classic - Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen

A Couple of Friends Fumbling Their Way Through a Not-Quite-Zombie Apocalypse Situation - This Book is Full of Spiders (Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It) by David Wong

“When the mind’s filter disappeared, the big picture disappeared with it. There was no forest, only trees. At its worst, there were no trees, either. Just bark.” - The Outsider by Stephen King

They understood their strength, all at once - The Power by Naomi Alderman

Revisiting an Old Favorite - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

What do you do with a girl like Akaraka? - A Kiss For Akaraka by Richard Jackson

When you need google eyes with your book - Pout-Pout's Halloween Faces by Deborah Diesen

A Familiar Scent Rose Up Into the Air, and I Remembered Something Special From a Long Time Ago - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Star Wars for Adults - Saga, Volume 9 by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan

What do you want to do Monster? - Eat Pete by Michael Rex

A look into Castro’s national literacy campaign through the eyes of its child teachers - My Brigadista Year by Katherine Paterson

“Relax, silly chickens! It’s HALLOWEEN!” - Eek! Halloween by Sandra Boynton

Glad I Didn’t Have to Wait After the Way Book 1 Ended! - The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

The Coolest Ghoul in School - Ghoul School by Kevin O'Malley

The Detective Who Makes Black Lives Matter - Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley

Barkonauts are the best! - Voyage of the Dogs by Greg van Eekhout

Two parents, a girl, a ghost, and a ticked-off cat - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

“All his life he’d used words to distract attention from this deep inarticulacy, this unspeakable emotion which he would now have to use words to describe.” - Some Hope (Patrick Melrose, #3) by Edward St. Aubyn

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived - A State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

A gripping YA fantasy series by an underrepresented author (3 Bingo squares for 3 books!) - An Ember in the Ashes, A Torch Against the Night, The Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

“Unless one of us is lying. Which is always a possibility.” - One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

TNG through J.J. Abrams, an oral history. - The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek by Eds. Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross

Flight of the Barflies - Beware The Solitary Drinker by Cornelius Lehane

Overall fun, but super tired of this trope. #CBRBingo - The Governess Game (Girl Meets Duke, #2) by Tessa Dare

Jasper Fforde’s silly brand of satire returns, a little bit darker this time around. - Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

It’s All About Timing - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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