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My Brain is the only super-power I need

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Volume 1 BFF) by Amy Reeder

August 22, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

If you are not a big Marvel graphic novel-stories fan, a few pieces of information are missing from the story of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Volume 1 BFF). Yet, at the same time, it is not needed. It is a standalone story where most information is self-explanatory. If not, Google is our friend (also my geek friends are well…. my friends who can fill in blanks). Plus, there is a note on one page that directs you to another story if you wish to […]

Watching the sheep

Sheep Dog and Sheep Sheep by Eric Barclay

August 22, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Sheep Dog and Sheep Sheep reminded me of books I read before and liked. But there is the issue. The story has been told before. There is nothing really new to the “child does not realize what adults do for them” and “we need to watch out for each other” story. Eric Barclay does have a nice story, however. It is just. Happy. Cozy. You know the “Good Guys” win and the “Bad Guys” do not. Sheep is just your typical kid, more than a […]

Laughing Through the Tears

Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson

God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked by Darrell Hammond

The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief by Nora McInerny Purmort

It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too) by Nora McInerny Purmort

August 22, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

Erin Gibson, Darrell Hammond and Nora McInerny Purmort have all been through some SHIT — and they’re going to share that with us served alongside some humor. Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson Based on her podcast Throwing Shade (which I’ve never listened to, but I imagine I would like), Feminasty is Erin Gibson’s excellent collection of essay that will make you laugh even if all you want to do is cry and rage at […]

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep

Our Flag Was Still There: The True Story of Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner by Jessie Hartland

August 21, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Our Flag Was Still There: The True Story of Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner by Jessie Hartland is a fun historical fiction story that mixes facts with a little mythology. We see how the famous flag of Francis Scott Keyes poem was made: by a seamstress, her daughter, nieces, mother and a black, female, indentured servant. We see how it was raised over the fort to scare off a British attack (that never happened). And later on, we see the battle that it became famous for. […]

Monkey See Monkey Tell Time

Monkey Time, by Michael Hall

August 21, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

If you can get over the Minutes basically bullying the monkey in Michael Hall’s Monkey Time, the learning about telling time (with the use of a lot of minutes) and the science facts at the end, are fun. And that is the story. We learn about how one Dot is a Minute; 10 make up ten minutes and so on. But the dots tease monkey to the point when (spoiler) he catches the last minute he wants to eat it. Okay; I did and did […]

A blazing good friendship

Baby Dragon, Baby Dragon by Melissa Marr

August 21, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Baby Dragon, Baby Dragon had great potential for becoming a great a bedtime story, but it fell short at the last minute. It was a treat to watch Baby Dragon play with his friend throughout the castle and the village, but then it is time for rest, which would have been the perfect ending. But Melissa Marr decides to let Baby Dragon wake and start again. The pacing of the book makes this rest only the time of a cat-nap and not the falling asleep […]

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