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What can a potato do?

Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert by Sara Andrea Fajardo and Juana Martinez-Neal

October 29, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

As with several books I was not going to read, Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru’s Famed Scientist and Potato Expert by Sara Andrea Fajardo and Juana Martinez-Neal (illustrator) was one of them, but it eventually found its way to my TBR pile as it was on a Best of 2025 Picture Book list. This was the final sign that told me I probably should read it. I was still nervous as when a book gets that hyped […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Agriculture |, Alberto Salas, Caribbean & Latin America, ecosystmes, environamental, Juana Martinez-Neal, nature, peru, Sara Andrea Fajardo, Sara Andrea Fajardo and Juana Martinez-Neal, science, scientist, south america

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:480 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Agriculture |, Alberto Salas, Caribbean & Latin America, ecosystmes, environamental, Juana Martinez-Neal, nature, peru, Sara Andrea Fajardo, Sara Andrea Fajardo and Juana Martinez-Neal, science, scientist, south america ·
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Yaaaaaass Queen! You ruled!

What Kind of Queen?: A Royal Biography of Drag Queen and Activist José Sarria by Kyle Casey Chu, Andrew W. Shaffer and Cindy Lozito

October 29, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The subject of being a queer kid in a children’s book, even a picture book, is not new. However, the format of What Kind of Queen?: A Royal Biography of Drag Queen and Activist José Sarria gives things a fresher feeling and makes a relatively unknown person accessible. The extras add to the bigger picture of who and what Jose Sarria was, but before you get there, to the end of Sarria’s life and accomplishments he was a child who knew how to be himself. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Andrew W. Shaffer, Cindy Lozito, Jose Sarria, Kyle Casey Chu, Kyle Casey Chu, Andrew W. Shaffer and Cindy Lozito, LGBTQ, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:472 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Andrew W. Shaffer, Cindy Lozito, Jose Sarria, Kyle Casey Chu, Kyle Casey Chu, Andrew W. Shaffer and Cindy Lozito, LGBTQ, Social Themes ·
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“The best way to go through life is to be a major donor of kindness”

Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

October 26, 2025 by stegolily Leave a Comment

Bingo: I am counting this book for the “Diaspora” space on my bingo, since it centers on the author’s experience as a member of the Iranian diaspora. This was a memoir covering Firoozeh Dumas’ life, from her family’s move from Iran to California when she was 7, up through her teenage years and young adulthood. She writes about her experiences with American food (hot dogs are pretty gross, if you think about it), her family vacations to American tourist sites, her disastrous stint at summer […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Firoozeh Dumas

stegolily's CBR17 Review No:33 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Firoozeh Dumas ·
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Voluptuary, Writer, Gourmand

The Gastronomical Me by MFK Fisher

October 25, 2025 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Bingo: “G” And with this I black out my Bingo card!! MFK Fisher’s The Gastronomical Me is a feast. Fisher transmits her memories through the lens of food, in which she takes the most sensual pleasure. Raised by a grandmother who saw food as strictly utilitarian, Fisher remembers her saying, “‘Eat what’s set before you, and be thankful for it,’ Grandmother said often; or in other words, “Take what God has created and eat it humbly and without sinful pleasure.” Fisher, fiercely independent and fascinated […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: cbr17bingo, MFK Fisher

esmemoria's CBR17 Review No:56 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: cbr17bingo, MFK Fisher ·
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Marriage is just for the tax benifits and other life lessons

Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? by Liz Prince

Delayed Replays by Liz Prince

Look Back and Laugh by Liz Prince

October 21, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A while back I read the graphic novel, Tomboy by Liz Prince. It was a fun memoir about being a kid that made me wonder about adult Liz. Who is she now? Or at least when her works were published. I found 2018 as the most recent autobiographical work, 2023 for Science Comics: Frogs: Awesome Amphibians (from First Second) and Adventure Time Compendium Vol. 1 in 2024 with other contributors.  Adult Liz is not much different than kid Liz. A bit awkward, weird, funny, has […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Romance, Short Stories Tagged With: literary, Liz Prince, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Themes, Women cartoonists

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:468 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Romance, Short Stories · Tags: literary, Liz Prince, Mental Health, Relationships, Social Themes, Women cartoonists ·
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Silly ol’ book

How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh by Annette Bay Pimentel

October 21, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A clever ol’ story about a clever and silly ol’ bear is what you learn about in How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh. The pieces fit as if you’re reading a Winnie the Pooh story, the illustrations as if reading a WTP book and they come together to make a modern classic. It is less a “solid story” and more of a poetic telling of how a bear came into existence. Things are less hard facts but taking the facts […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, History, Poetry Tagged With: #writing, a. a. milne, Annette Bay Pimentel, Books, Ernest Howard Shepard, Faith Pray, literary, pooh bear, winnie the pooh

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:465 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, History, Poetry · Tags: #writing, a. a. milne, Annette Bay Pimentel, Books, Ernest Howard Shepard, Faith Pray, literary, pooh bear, winnie the pooh ·
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