Beautiful, thoughtful, heartbreaking - Atonement by Ian McEwan
Worth the hype! - The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
Black Girl Scientific Joy - Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
“It’s good being the horror chick, sure, always standing away from the rest of the crowd, smoking bitter cigarette after better cigarette, she’d have it no other way, but it’s nice to make eye contact with someone else with a black heart, too, and then breath smoke out slow, like judgment.” - My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Anti-Fat Bias Explored - What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Still Life with Nood - That Noodle Life: Soulful, Savory, Spicy, Slurpy by Mike Le, Stephanie Le
“The ace world is not an obligation. Nobody needs to identify, nobody is trapped, nobody needs to stay forever and pledge allegiance. The words are gifts. If you know which terms to search, you know how to find others who might have something to teach.” (Bingo Blackout & Cannonball!) - Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
“But life isn’t all misery, and finding a path through hard, hard lives to joy is tough, clever, meaningful work.” - Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
If you haven’t already but you are able to do so, please get vaccinated. And get a flu shot. - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
“Everyone had strengths. And weaknesses. The important thing was to recognize them. And not expect something from someone who didn’t have it to give.” (CBR Bingo #11) - All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Gamache #16) by Louise Penny
An extremely good book. Understatement. #CBRBINGO – Landscape - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
“We’re both exiles, she’d thought, right then, and had hated herself for thinking it. She’d been gone a few months. She had no right to the name. She was home. She wasn’t, and she knew it. (There was no such place any longer.)” - A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2) by Arkady Martine
“No one would mistake you for anything but a tool, Gen.” - The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
“As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.” - All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Triple Cannonballing with Annie Wilkes. #CBRBINGO – Gateway - Misery by Stephen King
The depths of human nature - Terrible Faithfulness by Marlen Haushofer
Making Space for Mistakes - How to Wear A Sari by Darshana Khiani Illustrations by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff
“Sylvia did reach her dream of becoming a ballerina. And it all started with one determined girl with one library book from one bookmobile.” - Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became The Bookmobile Ballerina by Lea Lyon & A. LaFaye, Illustrations by Jessica Gibson
Price is Right, or, Untainted Love - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
We’re all so f*cked - The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
So excited for Book 3! - Skyward by Brandon Sanderson; Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
An AU of Steampunk Egypt, a magical whodunnit, and a great cast of characters. What more could you want? - A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
Sex, death, and queerness: a delightfully horrifying collection - Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
“To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.” - The Golden Fool (The Tawny Man, #2) by Robin Hobb
“I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.” - The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3) by Brandon Sanderson
With set-up all taken care of, Pierce shines again - Street Magic by Tamora Pierce
Not pure fluff, but very, very good. - The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3) by Helen Hoang
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (2021) - Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Another delectable romance from Lucy Parker - Battle Royal by Lucy Parker
CBR Bingo: A new Series and a recommendation! - Stealing from Wizards Volume 1: Pickpocketing by R.A.Consell; Stealing From Wizards Volume 2: Burglary by R.A Consell
A Halloween Treat - Unmasked – Tales of Risk and Revelation by Kevin J. Anderson, Executive Editor
A heartbreaking tale of children being failed by the adults in their lives again and again - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
What a fantastic ending to a phenomenal series! - Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce
“How Many Times Does a Person Write his Name in a Lifetime—a Million? Two Million?” - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
“Whichever story you believe, my mother, Chang’e, became immortal. As did I.” - Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Public Opinion – Walter Lippmann (1922) - Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
Two Entirely Different Kinds of Pirates - Pirate Queen: A Story of Zheng Yi Sao by Helaine Becker, Ill. Liz Wong ; What Isabella Wanted: Isabella Stewart Gardner Builds a Museum by Candace Fleming Ill. Matthew Cordell
I’m so, so glad I got back into Robin Hobb’s books. Totally worth it. - Fool's Errand (The Tawny Man, #1) by Robin Hobb
A gut-punch of a book filled with the stories we rarely hear - The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
What It Means to Survive - The Night the Lights Went Out by Drew Magary
Brat Packer Writes Charming Story About Mice - She Was Nice to Mice by Ally Sheedy
The worst part about reading something day 1 is that you have the wait the longest possible length of time to read the next book… - The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
This was the only book I was able to write a mini-review through my massive anxiety attack! - A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
This White Whale Almost Did Me In - The Plague by Albert Camus
Rosemary Reads Rosemary - Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Christie, Two Takes - The Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Classic Swedish Noir - Martin Beck Book Series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
I Loved This Book - A Thorn in the Saddle by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Love Letter to a Diaspora - Mooncakes and Milk Bread by Kristina Cho
It was happening again. Another fight with narrow-minded, hateful people. - A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas