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5 Star Reviews

Opacities (Blackout Bingo, Award winners) - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Dark secrets - The Giver: Graphic Novel by Lois Lowry

A Grim Look at the End - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Hot Romance Starts Series Off With a Bang - An Alaskan Christmas by Jennifer Snow

There Was Once A Girl Made of Snow… - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Rings a Bell (bingo, classics) - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

My little pups are waiting for me over the rainbow bridge - The Rainbow Bridge by Adrian Raeside

“The ache to return to a time long gone was almost worse than fear.” (CBR11 Bingo) - To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Going to Amazon to get your CBR link and finding out there’s a sequel: what a gloooorious feeeeeeeling, I’m haaaappy again! - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A Million Ways to Die in the North - The Terror by Dan Simmons

The World’s Worst Writer’s Retreat - Misery by Stephen King

“Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.” - Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Autumn: My favorite season - Oak Leaf by John Sandford; Lawrence in the Fall by Matthew Farina

“The witch owes nothing. That is what makes her dangerous. And that is what makes her divine.” - Waking the Witch by Pam Grossman

The legal feminist memoir I’ve been waiting for… - Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

Some Classics Remain That Way - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Under His Eye - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Not your parents Goldilocks - Moldilocks and the Three Scares: A Zombie Tale by Lynne Marie

Mystical, Brave, Horrific (Just Like Growing Up) - Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu

Fantastic Fantasy Fun - The Mortal Word by Genevieve Cogman

Returning once more to one of Hercule Poirot’s greatest cases #I Love This - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

A quiet fantasy that speaks to the heart (#AwardWinner) - The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

What did Marmee’s husband do during the war? - March by Geraldine Brooks

Black Lives Matter - Stay Woke by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi

Return to Form with Silken Prey - Silken Prey by John Sandford

The Beginning of the Evil - First Evil by R.L. Stine

“Now I am beyond prophecy.” - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden; The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

“Give her hell from us, Peeves.” (This review is the reason I’m four months behind.) - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling

Targaryen History 101 - Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin

Channeling Former Riot Grrls - Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Move across the country… - Someone who will love you in all your damaged glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Aging down the line - Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Another Great Marple! - They Do it With Mirrors by Agatha Christie

Wish it Was Longer - Only When It's Love by OIivia Spring

A humorous and insightful exhortation - The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell

Absolute perfection - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Do you like Fall? Do you like snacks? Do you like being happy? Yes? Then this is the graphic novel for you. - Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell, Faith Erin Hicks

The key to doing the impossible is to have no other choice - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

If you’re going to ban Harry Potter, at least come up with a better reason - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

I Love This. Always. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Moon Girl on the Rise - Moon Girl and the Devil Dinosaur: In the Beginning (books 1 to 12) by Amy Reeder

CBR11Bingo: Banned Books and Back to School - A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, E.G. Keller (Illustrator); From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

I was popular in certain circles. - Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley

Living the Good Death - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

The best opening line since The Martian - Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

He had no idea who she might be. - Possession by AS Byatt

Then you shoulda put a ring on it (or not) - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Michelle Obama is my hero - Becoming by Michelle Obama

Ah, the sweet autumnal smell of love. (CBR11 Bingo) - Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell, Faith Erin Hicks

It Is the Innocence Which Constitutes the Crime - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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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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