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5 Star Reviews

Sadly, the album is NOT on iTunes. - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Our family’s favourite children’s books - I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen; This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen; We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen

“She Always Keeps a Part of Herself a Mystery” - To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

Your Fame Will Live, Your Glory Sung - Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis

CBR11Bingo: I Love This - All That Remains: A Life In Death by Sue Black

CBR11Bingo: Listicle - Becoming by Michelle Obama

You Can Swim Against The Tide - The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang

A witchin’ re-imagining - Circe by Madeline Miller

Think Someone Could Record the Songs from this Novel? - Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

CBRBingo – Far and Away. An epic that is truly epic. - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Hazel Will Not Be Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl on Your Path to Self Discovery, Thank You - Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren

Austen meets Downton - Longbourn by Jo Baker

Ain’t no sunshine (The Collection) - Strange Weather by Joe Hill

The Most Dangerous Worldview Is the Worldview of Those Who Have Not Viewed the World. - The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf

The kind of book that you wish you could read for the first time, again. - Perdido Street Station by China Mielville

CBRBingo – Own Voices. If you know anyone with the rally cry of “send her back” give them this book. - Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Sometimes the stories we know are actually just the footnotes in another (better) story. - Circe by Madeline Miller

“The particular power of the whodunnit” multiplied by 2 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Jen Gunter Has a Vagenda - The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine by Jennifer Gunter

Far and Away - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

I proceeded to think thus… - The First Detective: The Complete Auguste Dupin Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

No Stranger to the Vine - Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker

“I would like to point out that I specifically asked for no hijinks…” - Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass by Lilah Sturges, polterink

Re-read of Little Women - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Our Beloveds - Beloved by Toni Morrison

When History Repeats itself - They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

For West is where we all plan to go some day. - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Galactic Millieu- The Adversary - The Adversary by Julian May

Read this and you’ve picked a winner - The Lottery: Graphic Novel by Shirley Jackson

Two heads are better than one, unless you are a PushMe-PullYou - My Father’s Words by Patricia MacLachlan

“We don’t know the people who live across the street or on either side of us.” - Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Now I Am Medea; My Wit Has Grown Through Suffering. - Medea by Christa Wolf

But we inherit it. - The Travelers by Regina Porter

The enemy’s gate is down - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Fans of Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles will also enjoy this new novel - The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg

“Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.” (CBR11 Bingo) - Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Not all heroes wear capes, but some do! - Cape by Kate Hannigan

One of my top recommendations right now! - Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

A Joy to listen to! - Jukebox Joyride by Jacob Stein, Jason Rabinowitz

More than I was expecting - The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner

Re-reading a much loved series - The Many Colored Land by Julian May

Okay, enough with the jokes. Now’s the time if you wanna apologize. - One Punch Man vol 1 by ONE

Escobar minus Escobar - Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

What do I read next, hivemind? (I Love This) - The Trespasser by Tana French

It had been too long since I read this - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Start of King’s Best Books - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Chap sees an swan in the cinema. He says “are you a swan?” “Yes” comes the answer. “What are you doing here?” “Well, I liked the book”. - Wild Swans by Xanthe Gresham Knight

Cannonballer Says - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Dad’s livid, more gin than tonic - Lanny by Max Porter

She blinded me with science - Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson

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