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4 Star Reviews

Maybe read this during the day… - Come Closer by Sara Gran

Like reading the show - M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Doctors by Richard Hooker

Funny she fixes feminine problems now, when she was my problem then. - Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

I have lived ten years of wild rovings, of conquests and discoveries, in those woods; the day when I have to leave them my heart will be very heavy. - The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School, Claudine in Paris, Claudine Married, Claudine and Annie by Colette

Wonder Woman - Wonder Woman: The Circle by Gail Simone

Roadtrip of grief - Someone Else's Summer by Rachel Bateman

Prophet of Female Rage - Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

Delicious morsels of trivia, with hints of cheekiness. - At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

It’s amazing how right you can be about a person you don’t know; it’s only the people you do know who confuse you - The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Super Manny! - Super Manny Stands Up! by Kelly DiPucchio

#CBR10 Bingo: Underrepresented – Let’s Talk About Love - Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann

“It’s Wrong What They Say About the Past, I’ve Learned, About How you Can Bury it. Because the Past Claws its Way Out.” - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Stay Gold, Childhood Memories - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

#CBR10 Bingo: Listicles – A Million Junes - A Million Junes by Emily Henry

All I’ve got is this sunny afternoon and a whole lot of fun - Sun by Sam Usher

It’s Your First Day of School Busy Bus and everything (spoiler) will be okay! - It’s Your First Day of School Busy Bus! by Jody Jensen Shaffer

Underrepresented #CBR10 Bingo - The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang

Italian Football (Soccer/Calcio): Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction - Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer by John Foot

If Wishes were books I’d have more than I do even now! - Cat Wishes by Calista Brill

Well now I gotta see the movie - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

A murder in a rich family. - The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza

Sadly, Sue the T-Rex Does Not Make an Appearance. But a Very Good Boy Does - Brief Cases by Jim Butcher

This graphic novel is cute as hell, and the art is beautiful. #CBRBingo - The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

This is going to make a really fun movie. - To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1) by Jenny Han

Charming! - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

If aliens landed, we’d still be idiots. - Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Pobody’s nerfect? - Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

She squeezes his fingers and he can feel her love travelling all the way down from her heart to his - My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. - The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horse, The Crossing; Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. - Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

We Walked Beside the Sea After a Day That Perished Silently - The Seas by Samantha Hunt

These Twin “Silkpunk” Fantasy Novellas are Fantastic - The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang

“You can’t save people from the world. There’s nowhere else to take them.” - The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

“Unbelief is a Terrible Thing, and So is the Hurt we Cause Others Unknowingly” - The Color Purple by Alice Walker

I’m Freaking Indifferent Towards Science - What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

It took me 11 years to finally read it. Worth it. - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Truly one of my white whales. #CBRBingo - The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kriezler, #1) by Caleb Carr

Introducing Your Friend and Mine: The Honeybee - The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall

Oliver’s Tree and His Friends - Oliver’s Tree by Kit Chase

Grim, but great - Happy by Grant Morrison, Darick Robertson

Hurry up and write more, please! - A Red-Rose Chain by Seanan McGuire

I really dislike Peter now, FYI. #CBRBingo - A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4) by Louise Penny

Age, Gender and Culture in one London Community - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

Aptly Named - Yes Please by Amy Pohler

Jackson Brodie, P.I. - Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Who Spies on the Spies? - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John LeCarré

Dreams of an Extraordinary Life. - The Dress and the Girl by Camille Andros

Corporate Feminism Isn’t Great (CBR10 BINGO) - Lean Out by Dawn Foster

History develops. Art stands still - Aspects of the novel by E.M. Forster

When I was a child, I first noticed that neither history as I was taught it nor the stories I was told seemed to lead to me. I began to fix them. - Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

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