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5 Star Reviews

Laugh so Loud at the Coffee Shop that the Guy Next in Line Spills His Drink (CBR11 Bingo: The Collection) - Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Great Book in Series That Focuses on Havers - In The Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George

“Plot, Character, Smut – you’ve got the whole package” - Stacked by Aviva Blakeman; Say My Name by Aviva Blakeman

A Tom Robbins-esque Interstellar Freak-out - Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore

An Elf, a Human and a Dwarf walk into a tabletop role playing game - Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy

Wake up to a beautiful day in Morningtown! - Welcome to Morningtown by Blake Liliane Hellman

Not just another slipper story - The Tale of the Tiger Slippers by Jan Brett

Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon - A Dream of Flight: Alberto Santos-Dumont's Race Around the Eiffel Tower by Rob Polivka

Beautiful writing, if a little drifting - Less by Andrew Sean Greer

We All Deserve to Be Happy - Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sophie Hagen

Bee Respectful, Bee Kind - Jacob's Room to Choose by Sarah Hoffman, Ian Hoffman

“And still ducking promotion, Captain Vorpatril?” - Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold

Three Seanan McGuire books I *highly* recommend - Middlegame by Seanan McGuire ; Indexing (Indexing #1) by Seanan McGuire ; Reflections (Indexing #2) by Seanan McGuire

“Tough luck for elected officials. The beast you see got 50 eyes” - Infomocracy by Malka Older

Tough book, mercifully short - The Nickle Boys by Colson Whitehead

CBR11Bingo: Award Winner (and 2 others) - Vox by Christina Dalcher ; Dry by Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman; The Dispatcher by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto (Narrator)

“In the name of King Arthur, and of the old world before the dark came.” - Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper

CBRBingo – Rainbow Flag. Laugh out loud funny - I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves by Ryan O'Connell

CBRBingo11: Remix - The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley

CBRBingo – Summer Read. More Poehler, please. - Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Hurricanes Can Be Inside, Just as Much as Outside - Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby

The graphic of the graphic novel - Stitches: A Memoir by David Small

Friends Like These - Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

In a gadda da vida, baby - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

So we usually say something ambiguous like: soon. - Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Read this. That’s the whole review. - The Rise of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee

The issue has always been land - The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

“The important thing about Margaret Wise Brown is…” (cbr11bingo – true story) - The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett

A Tale of Two Sisters - Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

He Had a Pretty Good Reason - Ghosted by Rosie Walsh

How to enjoy parenting your middle school student - Middle School Matters by Phyllis L. Fagell

A book more relevant now than when it was first written - Intervention by Julian May

The Garment in Which Memory is Stitched - My Wedding Dress: True-life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears, & Tulle by Edited by Susuan Whelhan & Anne Laurel Carter

It’s about the Monkey Trial but so much more - Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

“To be polite, unoffendable, persistent, boring, friendly: in other words, to lie” - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

…stay away from duels between sorcerers, parties to which you’re not invited, and houses full of corpses. - The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall

Jumping on this 2012 bandwagon - Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

CBR11Bingo: Rainbow Flag - The Light Years: A Memoir by Chris Rush

When One Summer Turns into the Important Summer - This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

This Straight Up Gave Me a Panic Attack - Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

She rose in a flare of skirt; he bowed over her hand. - A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bjuold

Required reading for all teens, parents of teens, or anyone who knows a teen. - Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiona Davis does it again - The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis

A reflection on a gentleman - A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles

Sing! - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Ms. Marvel at war - Ms. Marvel Vol. 6: Civil War II by G Willow Wilson

The Raft of Medusa - The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

Why Is It Always So Hard to Review the Great Ones? - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Drinking a Mug of Male Tears - How to be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings by Sarah Cooper

Blackenized fashion - Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem by Daniel R. Day

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