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40-something psychologist living with a husband, preschooler, and 2 cats. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Tracy's Quick Questions interview.)

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A YA Contemporary Fiction and a YA Fantasy

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

She Knows All the Names by Michelle Jabes Corpora

September 14, 2026 by Tracy Leave a Comment

CBR18 BINGO: Or (for Clap When You Land – lots of choices), Middle (for She Knows All the Names – 2nd book in a trilogy) Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo This is a YA novel in verse, which makes it a fairly quick read. When a DR-bound plane departing New York goes down, it affects Yahaira and Camino, daughters of a man on the plane, but each is unaware of the other’s existence. Their father was a man with secrets, with a legal family in the U.S. and a second daughter […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr18bingo, elizabeth acevedo, Michelle Jabes Corpora

Tracy's CBR18 Review No:59 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: cbr18bingo, elizabeth acevedo, Michelle Jabes Corpora ·
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Books and Coffee and Pastries, Oh My!

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

September 14, 2026 by Tracy Leave a Comment

CBR18 BINGO: Friends I feel like I would really like Travis Baldree if I met him in person. Based on the number of women in his books and the way he writes about them, he really seems to just love women in a non-creepy way. His books are cozy and it almost feels like he decided one day, “I like coffee and books and pastries, so I’m going to write about those things,” and luckily enough, readers want to read about those things. There’s something […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: cbr18bingo, Series, Travis Baldree

Tracy's CBR18 Review No:57 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: cbr18bingo, Series, Travis Baldree ·
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Slow Start, Then Great

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

September 8, 2026 by Tracy 1 Comment

CBR18 BINGO: Left (left side of my bookshelf) This wasn’t quite what I was expecting. The first chunk of the book had more politicking than I expected from reading the book blurb, as well as multiple POVs. While I don’t mind political fantasies, I was in the mood for a story about Vasya’s life in her village and the trouble brewing there. We did eventually get to that, and then I was hooked. There were still multiple POVs, but I think mostly the perspectives were from […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: cbr18bingo, Katherine Arden, the winternight trilogy

Tracy's CBR18 Review No:56 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: cbr18bingo, Katherine Arden, the winternight trilogy ·
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A Weird Book and Murakami. So, Two Weird Books, I Guess

The Employees by Olga Ravn

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

August 31, 2026 by Tracy Leave a Comment

CBR18 BINGO: Craft for The Employees (unconventional/fragmented/experimental approach) and Summer for The City and Its Uncertain Walls The Employees by Olga Ravn So, I read this. Uh . . . And then I did some of this: It’s hard to know what to make of this. It’s confusing, although I do think I understood the general gist of it. To be honest, though, for a while I only knew what was happening because the book blurb tells you, and it felt like the book blurb made some of the connections […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr18bingo, haruki murakami, Olga Ravn, translated fiction

Tracy's CBR18 Review No:55 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr18bingo, haruki murakami, Olga Ravn, translated fiction ·
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Two Fantasies, Two More BINGO Squares

Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

August 25, 2026 by Tracy Leave a Comment

CBR18 BINGO: You (for Dragon Haven because I’ve been working my way through Realm of the Elderlings as part of a book club for the past 1.5 years) and Sheep (for The Knight and the Moth related to being led/conformity) Dragon Haven I’ve had an unusual reaction to the first two books in the Rain Wild Chronicles. For both of them, I’ve enjoyed the actual process of reading the book, but I’ve also rarely felt the urge to pick them up between sittings and have often […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: cbr18bingo, Rachel Gillig, robin hobb

Tracy's CBR18 Review No:53 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: cbr18bingo, Rachel Gillig, robin hobb ·
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Does Jane Austen Write Crack?

Emma by Jane Austen

August 21, 2026 by Tracy Leave a Comment

CBR18 BINGO: Repair (Emma’s self-improvement) I suspect my reaction to Emma (the character) is a little different on this re-read compared to when I first read it probably some 15-20 years ago. I recall thinking back then that Emma’s heart was in the right place and not really understanding why Austen considered her “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” I do largely stand by that first impression, but this time I think I was more aware of Emma’s flaws and the way […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr18bingo, classic literature, Jane Austen

Tracy's CBR18 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr18bingo, classic literature, Jane Austen ·
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