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He snuck by me on occasion and I regretted it every time. He learned nothing.

Ilona Andrews is probably one of the few urban fantasy/sci-fi mash up authors that I have not really taken the plunge with yet. But I think you're making a good sell here. Your dog on the other hand? Whatever trickery...

Thanks! I have updated your count. It was actually two early reviews that had gotten erased from my tracker last month.

Hi! I should have 13 as of 12 noon EST on Sept 18th. I had double reviews (2 books per post) for the following review titles: There’s a carcass composed entirely of sexual tension lying abandoned on the couch. I...

My choice for this square is Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia. Other books I can recommend that fit into this category (I may or may not have a road trip tag when logging my books into LibraryThing): Witches Abroad by...

Updated! Thank you!

I should be at 19 squares filled - I forgot to tag my review for Love You, Mean It, but fixed it now.

Updated! Thanks for catching that.

I almost used Stephen King's 11/22/263 for the Wheels category, due to the time travel aspect, but I ended up using it for Repair. I just read Far North by Marcel Theroux, which will fit for Wheels (traveling, immigrating, moving...

Hi! I should have 2 bingos: 4 corners and the center, plus a diagonal. Thank you!!

Good grief, I have had this on my to read pile for the best part of the year. I really shoudl get to it. It is interesting though to read you're impressions of the book having not seen the film...

I traumatized myself!

It’s fun to write too 🙂

Virtual hug over a pretty bad book. I’ve had a bad run but this sounds top tier.

Nice list. I’ve just finished Wake in Fright that has the main character trying to get back to Sydney via a train, and then truck, etc. Also if you want some might lighter you can read The Road Trip by...

Yeah I don’t think I can watch this one. Some of the scenes in the book were pretty bad (the animal killing).

I don't think I'll ever read the book or watch the film because of the animal death (among other things) but I'm glad to learn more about the story from your review. Have you seen the film? All I know...

Ooh I love a juicy 1* review haha

Agreed -- I wanted more secret societies and vagaries of on campus magic rules, less real world issues. I had to read a detailed summary of this book to remember what happened because I don't have the patience to reread...

I actually didn't finish reading it but the first 1/3 or so of In a Sunburned Country (Bill Bryson's travelogue of Australia) is side splittingly funny, like woke up someone from laughing so hard funny, and involves him on road...

These are both delightful. Kuang is weirdly polarizing for how much I've enjoyed everything of hers post-Poppy Wars

Ooh that's a clever albeit v long way to complete a square

Thank you! I hope we see a review when you’ve read it

Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad is outstanding but heavy. If you want to go lighter, I would pick any Murderbot book as they seem to involve a good amount of space travel

If you like Leigh Bardugo, her book Hell Bent, is sort of a road trip to hell. Just read Ninth House first. And Katabasis by R.F. Kuang could also probably be considered a road trip to hell, in case you...

This is a lovely review. Thank you. I've got this one on my list, I'll need to move it up, I think!

I discovered Prine’s music fairly recently and fell in love with him.

I adore John Steinbeck and loved Travels with Charley. Steinbeck travels the United States with his poodle Charley. I read this book before my own solo trip cross country when I was 21.

I saw this post yesterday and have concluded that the only road trip in a car book I've read is Lolita. And arguably some parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Maybe I should fix that newly discovered gap in my reading....

One roadtrip book I've considered rereading is Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian. As for Wheels, Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo is a great back-to-school supernatural murder mystery set in Nashville about dangerous boys, family secrets, and street racing....

Wheel of Time by Jordan should count right? Or anything that has the "moving of time?"

The cover is the reason I want to read and not want to read it at the same time. Just in case I do read it, I can't read your review, but I'm sure it is great! 🙂

How is it possible that jude only met sexual predictors in his childhood? Like we know those people exist but is it every other dude you meet on the road?

Do you happen to remember where the interview came from? I'd like to check it out. If you can believe it, I've never read an Erik Larson book!

Just like those comedians who punch down and when there’s pushback, they whine that they’re being canceled and we have to sense of humor. You’re not the victim!

 My Inner Child Wants to Kill is supposed to be humorous, and maybe that is supposed to cover up the anger and misogyny, but it fails. Books like that drive me crazy. They hide under the umbrella of comedy/satire while trafficking...

I still can't get over the way she described lasagna. I'm so glad you loved this!!

I was very pleasantly surprised by the first book, which I hadn't really expected to like much. I hated the second season of the TV show, so I'm glad this book tells a different story. I have put myself on...

I have this on hold, I've skimmed the review out of extreme spoiler aversion but will come back after!

every time someone tries to tell me that scifi was invented recently (or, I suppose, perfected recently) I want to rend my teeth and throw this book at them

I just got a friend who's struggled for ages to find something that sparks into Clocktaur, so Yes to coining the phrase an Embarrassment/Angst of Paladins!!! My other friend felt like Swordheart was too quest-y and that Halla was too...

sorry now I'm just screaming into the void because my brain couldn't hold all the details about how people appeared but [spoiler title="question"] at the end of the book, Joe at the end introduces himself as part Chinese, and that's...

oh my god I just finished this and because of the author bio at the end realized this is the author of The Watchmaker at Filigree Street and the clockwork octopus!!!

When I picked it up at the bookstore, one of the sales associates came over to tell me that I was holding her favorite book, which led to a very interesting conversation about Le Guin, science fiction and other favorite...

Oh man. Marcus' is going to hurt. I would guess that Judith is the finale. I'm really excited to see the larger threads get resolved around gods and demons and such.

Maybe an Angst of Paladins would have been more appropriate? 😀

This was the first novel I'd read by Ursula K. LeGuin, and I think it's magnificent! Such an incredible story of friendship and bridging differences.

Shirley Jackson is wonderful. I recently read her story "The Summer People," which isn't as famous as "The Lottery," but also has that slow build to horror.

According to a recent Ask Me Anything, Marcus’s book is going to the publisher by the end of the year, and the we eventually get Wren with Judith at the end. And then maybe a Jorge standalone.

'Embarrassment of Paladins' <-- Well that's a new collective noun for meI love that you've opened the Kingfisher floodgates!