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5 Star Reviews

cbr12bingo – Pandemic! - To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

There is grandeur in this view of life (CBR12Bingo: Green – Double bingo) - Human Errors by Nathan Lents

An Orange Cover by a Green (CBR12Bingo: Orange – Double Bingo) - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Write faster, French! (CBR12Bingo: Shelfie) - The Witch Elm by Tana French

Man, Magic, and the Machine - The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Hossain

Look no further: Perfect Christmas gift for all the foodies on your list - The New Homemade Kitchen by Joseph Shuldiner

I am not going to take you on top of a moldy sarcophagus. - A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn

Yes! This is What I Was Looking For - How to Machine Sew: Techniques and Projects for the Complete Beginner by Susie Johns

Catch and Kill - Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

Full of Grace - Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Cost of Addiction and Family Secrets - Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

The Importance of Shielding the Vulnerable - Pet by Akwaeke

The Swooniest Novella - Liquor & Laundry by Tasha L. Harrison

The Citadel of Troizen, where the Palace stands. was built by giants before anyone remembers. - The King Must Die by Mary Renault

Just lovely - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Frozen Meets Fiddler on the Roof -

If nothing is sacred, there is nothing to save. - Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Gimme Shelter - Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day by Joel Selvin

Hell, they ain’t even old timey! (CBR12Bingo: The Roaring 20s) - Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Third time through liked this just as much. - Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

Gloriously Deranged Insanity - Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

If you don’t love science yet, Sam Kean will win you over - The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Drama, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean

How green is your valley? - The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Words mean more than what is set down on paper - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Murder Investigation as a Capstone Project - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

“Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators …. But they don’t carry it the way victims do.“ - They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisenger, Steven Scott, Harmony Becker

Nature, red in tooth and claw (CBR12Bingo: Pandemic) - Devolution by Max Brooks

Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit (CBR Bingo: Money) - Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

“If something keeps you human when pressure makes you feel like a volcano, hold on to that thing by any means necessary.” (Bingo #2) - Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

This Was Exactly My Kind of Weird. - Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

In which A Square contemplates the universe - Flatland by Edwin Abbott

This one is going in my top ten for 2020. #CBRBingo – Reader’s Choice - Beach Read by Emily Henry

Everything I wanted and more. - Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells

2 Perspectives, 1 Great Story - I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal

cbr12bingo – Orange - Sing to It by Amy Hempel

Gyo Fujikawa Drew her way into our hearts - It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear 

“… it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us.” - Ghachar Ghochar: A Novel by Vivek Shanbhag

BIGFOOT! - Devolution by Max Brooks

Real Life Takes Place in Movement - Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

She’s fine but I’m a mess - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Just what I needed to cure the pandemic blues - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Since I couldn’t pick just one, this is a long review with no pillows included for a break nap - beast feast by Douglas Florian; Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye; One Year at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks

A marvelous extension of an already incredible, established universe - Avatar The Last Airbender: The Promise by Gene Luen Yang

Timely. - Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay

Beautiful and Heartbreaking - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Pretty people doing not pretty things - The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham; The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by K. Woodman-Maynard

One Ring To Rule Them All….. - The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien; The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien; The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien

Was It Really Friendship? - Mrs. Lincoln & Mrs. Keckley: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner; Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley

90s Hard Sci Fi Classic - Quarantine by Greg Egan

You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain

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