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4 Star Reviews

Shelfie: These Toxic Things - These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall

“I’m no expert, but I remember reading somewhere, every time you retrieve a memory, that act of retrieval, it corrupts the memory a little bit. Maybe changes it a little.” - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

When Marvel Gets a Little Real - Ms. Marvel, vols.1-7 by G. Willow Wilson, Mirka Andolfo, Takeshi Miyazawa, Ian Herring

Up Close and Personal - Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

Tense and Suspenseful - The Janes by Louisa Luna

Fake relationship, second chance category romance - Just a Little Married by Reese Ryan

Why did I sit on this? I should have trusted Jemisin more, I blame the pandemic - The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

BINGO! Finally - Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

Not A Love Song - Not a Love Song by Veronica Albright

“Why look after the soul of a thing if you’ve trained it to believe it has no soul?” - Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter

Gateway Bingo Square: The Cousins - The Cousins by Karen M. McManus

Sometimes you read a book and just want to go hang out with the author for a while. - Recipe for a kinder life by Annie Smithers

Is this the final Grishaverse book? I hope not - Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

PDX - Derailed by Mary Keliikoa

A grumpy architect and a sunshine wedding planner try to save a resort - Best Laid Wedding Plans by Karen Booth

Deeply Personal - You Got Anything Stronger? by Gabrielle Union

Hey Hey He’s Okay…! - A-Okay by Jarad Green

A timely mystery written over 50 years ago - The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side by Agatha Christie

What Comes Next - By Way of Sorrow by Robyn Gigl

Old Series Bingo: Garnethill - Garnethill by Denise Mina

First it was spiders, then it was octopuses, now it’s . . . everything. Just wait for the bits with the rats. - The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A mystery on the moon. - The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut, #3) by Mary Robinette Kowal

“Friendship can be as deep as the ocean. It’s all a kind of love, and love isn’t any one kind of thing.” - Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

“I am the only storm that matters now, and there is no shelter from what I bring.” #CBRBINGO – New Series - Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse

Next Thursday - The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

When Fan-Fic Sticks the Ending Better then the Original - Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

A mechanic, a doctor, and an enemies-to-lovers romance - Mechanics of Love by Meka James

That’s More Like It - Lonely Planet Pocket Glasgow by Andy Symington

This comic is so incredibly sweet - Heartstopper, vol 4 by Alice Oseman

“Mr. Responsibility and Ms. Take Care of Everyone…Wherever might the two of you find common ground?” - Wild at Heart by Zoe York

I have very little to add to what other cannonballers have said about this book - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

I am really happy I stuck with this trilogy. - The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

Everything bad will always happen in Three Pines. - Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13) by Louise Penny

“The three of them sat there – a Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save.” - A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn, #3) by P. Djèlí Clark

“Feeling cozy and loved and together is more important than scientific truth.” - The Lights on Knockbridge Lane by Roan Parrish

I couldn’t put it down - Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Bewilderment – Richard Powers (2021) - Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Been There, Doing That Again - Rose Gold by Walter Mosley

Aquatic Reveries - Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea by Bill François

“It felt strange. I was about to read one murder mystery while sitting inside another.” - Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2) by Anthony Horowitz

“If we want something, we have to push back against everything around us and take it by force.” - Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

They Knew Each Other By the End - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

“The only good thing this broken heart of mine can feel is love for you.” - The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

I finally get around to actually reading Olivia Dade - Teach Me by Olivia Dade

You’ll never look at a giant space worm the same way again. - Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back by Various

A ridiculously gorgeous cover, a slowburn romance, and all the drama - You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

The Dominatrix and The Star - His Leading Lady by Jenny Nordbak

“I wondered what it was like to live without that weight on your shoulders, the weight of the murdered ancestors, the stolen land, the abused children, the burden every Native person carries.” #CBRBINGO – Fauna - Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

“The greatest possible irony would be if in our endless quest to fill our lives with comfort and happiness we created a world that had neither.” - At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

I thought I didn’t care, but then I couldn’t stop crying - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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