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4 Star Reviews

Lost Boy or Femme Fatale – Choose your novel - Funny Guy by Emma Barry; Bold Moves by Emma Barry

A love letter to the NHS - This is going to hurt by Adam Kay

“If a book is well-written, I always find it too short” - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Immigrant Stories - The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

A sinister Halloweentown, a missing dad, a murder. CBRBINGO – Free Space (in place of Border) - No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams

“My unhappiness was rooted in my mother’s inability to stop drinking.” - There Was a Little Girl by Brooke Shields

“In my mind, the world is not reasonable, and can never be made reasonable. It is more interesting than that.” - In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

“But what I’m seeing is that the more comfortable he gets, the less he cares. As his importance compounds, his regard diminishes.” - Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

“A penny saved is a penny earned.”–Benjamin Franklin - The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

“Because that’s how life tends to work in all its aspects. We try things out, and make mistakes, and recover, and learn from our experiences.” - Band Sinister by KJ Charles

More Christmas and Yule please - The Legend of the Christmas Witch by Dan Murphy and Aubrey Plaza

One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune - One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune

Impact of books and other really cool things - The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest by Lynn Street; Little Monk Writes Rain by Hsu-Kung Liu

A cozy book. - The History of Everything: A Graphic Novel by Victoria Evans

“Why do I have to be nice when most of the men aren’t?” (double Bingo) - Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Birds for a BINGO Board Blackout - The Wisdom of Birds, An Illustrated History of Ornithology by Tim Birkhead

Sunshine and grumpy: Christmas edition - Magically Generated by Jackie Lau

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.” - Iron Flame (The Empyrean Saga #2) by Rebecca Yarros

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. —OSCAR WILDE” - The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

“After a certain age, you can pretty much do whatever takes your fancy. No one tells you off, except for your doctors and your children.” - The Thursday Murder Club: a novel by Richard Osman

“The perimenopause book” - All Fours by Miranda July

Counting to Ten in Chinese Food - One Two Three Dim Sum by Rich Lo

The National Pastime in a Past Time - Electric October by Kevin Cook

Please, Re-read the Previous Book First - Queen Demon by Martha Wells

“She was Grendel’s mother; she was vengeance incarnate.” - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

An Interesting Twist On the Cinderella Story - If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love, Vol. 1 by Harunadon; If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love, Vol. 2 by Harunadon; If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love, Vol. 3 by Harunadon

A Magic School for Kids - The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

PUUUUNK! - Be Your Own Backing Band by Liz Prince

From dump to park - Once a Wasteland: From Toxic Dump to National Park by Diane Muldrow and Amy Jindra Hodgson

Of course, after building up this title, you will need to wait until April 2026 for reading - Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp (A Picture Book) by Minoru Tonai, Jolene Gutiérrez, and Chris Sasaki

What can a potato do? - Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert by Sara Andrea Fajardo and Juana Martinez-Neal

Colton Fox liked my Instagram picture for these - Witch Hazel by Colton Fox and Beige Blum; Witch Hazel Trouble at TCAF by Colton Fox and Beige Blum; Witch Hazel: Seasons of the Witch by Colton Fox and Beige Blum

I Do Love These Characters - The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

Cover Story by Mhairi McFarlane - Cover Story by Mhairi McFarlane

It’s not over until we win - Royal Assassin: Book 2 of The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

Consider me stretched, hydrated and respectfully feral - Read Me Slow by Charish Read

Mio, My Son, an A+ read-aloud - Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren

She’s as bisexual as the next person, but this is not some highly evolved plea for implied polyamory or whatever. - Alice Rue Evades the Truth by Emily Zipps

Julia Song is Not the Problem - Julia Song is Undateable by Susan Lee

“When death stares people in the face, they revert to their true self.” - The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews

Bodies and Christ - American Rapture by C.J. Leede; This is My Body by Lindsay King-Miller

Football Season - One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller

HALLOWEEEEEE (N)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Spoops: The Little Spirits of Halloween by A.J. LoCascio

“Jesus, who would want to read about a failed old nun, with her stipend, and second-hand shoes.” - Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd

Storytelling to Keep Tigers at Bay - When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Age-gap romance - Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood

Marriage is just for the tax benifits and other life lessons - Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? by Liz Prince; Delayed Replays by Liz Prince; Look Back and Laugh by Liz Prince

Silly ol’ book - How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh by Annette Bay Pimentel

Songs of Grandfather - Cassi and the House of Memories: A Graphic Novel by Dean Stuart

The women poets of the Harlem Renaissance - Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes

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