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5 Star Reviews

I’m a Rowell Convert: Bingo #5! - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

“We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality” - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Sam, Lielet and a brain-eating monster of folklore - Little Girls by Nicholas Aflleje

Sweeping Story of the Brodrick Family - Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier

Welcome to Blackwell, Massachusetts - The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman

It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember… - The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel

Just Pictures of Cute Animals That Will Make You Feel Better - This Book Is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Animals That Will Make You Feel Better by Smith Street Books

She’s poor on purpose? Is that even legal? - Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story by Peter Bagge

WHAT THE FRANKENSTEIN (only I did not say Frankenstein) is going on? - Blackbird, Volume 1 by Sam Humphries

Graveyard Surf - Night Shift by Stephen King

Political Thrills in a Cataclysmic World - City of Stairs (The Divine Cities Book 1) by Robert Jackson Bennett; City of Blades (The Divine Cities Book 2) by Robert Jackson Bennett; City of Miracles (The Divine Cities Book 3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

Magnificat – an incredible ending to this series - Magnificat by Julian May

Jack the Bodiless – a worthy addition to the series - Jack the Bodiless by Julian May

I Wondered. “Where Are All the Black Cooks?” - The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin

CBR11 #5: The Darkness on the Edge of Town - You Might Forget The Sky Was Ever Blue by Michael Chin

The World Beyond Your Window - The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman

A Long, Strange Trip - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Bingo #4 - Coraline by Neil Gaiman

How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This - A Fortune for your Diaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

Stars Shining Bright Above Us - Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos by Alan W. Hirshfeld

An ecofeminist tale of endings, beginnings, and inescapable duty. - The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

If only we had started tackling climate change 60 years ago - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

One of the top most 100 banned books of the decade! (2013) - What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones

And the serious plot begins - Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher

“He still woke up some days and believed for fifteen seconds or so that he had something to do, until he remembered he didn’t. The sixteenth second was a killer.” - Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

Shining Light on Colonialism - Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah

“Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and – as we all do, whether mortal or immortal – ignored it.” - Mythos by Stephen Fry

…how disease sometimes exposes what is otherwise hidden. - The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

The Last Words You Will Hear… - The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

We Can’t Only Learn From Our Parents - Educated by Tara Westover

A warm hug - Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Novel by Linda Holmes

Bingo #3! - Jackaroo or The Tale of Qwyn by Cynthia Voigt

Third time through, just as great. #CBRBingo – I Love This - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Innkeeper Kicks Butt! - Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews

I did not expect to love this book so much, or at all. #CBRBingo – Reader’s Choice - The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The Skin You Are In… - Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin

Holy Crap! And Damn! - Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

Oscar had never heard the term, but he had much more important misunderstandings on his mind. - Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

CBRBingo – History/Schmistory – Creative and fanciful and thought provoking - The Porpoise by Mark Haddon

CBRBingo – Banned Books. THUG Life = Real life - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

CBRBingo – Illustrated. A delightful romp - Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Arguably, America’s Greatest General - George Marshall: Defender of the Republic by David L. Roll

Cry Wolf - American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee

Weaving a Magic Tale - The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Validating and Vital - Know My Name by Chanel Miller

If you believe in success you’ll be relieving your stress - Top Dog by Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

The Reality of Space Travel - To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

The Hero Played Fiddle - The Bravest Man in the World by Patricia Polacco

I’m as shocked as anyone that I love a book about trees! - Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori

We don’t know what happens Behind Closed Doors… - Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris

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  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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