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A Love Letter From a Dad to his Son

Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman

May 26, 2019 by jomidi Leave a Comment

You have to love Fredrik Backman’s writing. I am a huge fan of “A Man Called Ove” and have read most of his other work. This short, charming book is a love letter to his young son. Backman alternates some very short 1-2 page anecdotes with some longer reflections on parenthood and life. It is all there – from the lack of sleep to all the stuff you think you need to the struggle with getting a car seat installed correctly to changing lots of […]

All great journeys start with a single step

Pears and Perils by Drew Hayes

May 25, 2019 by crystalclear 1 Comment

This is one of the first novels that Drew Hayes wrote, and like all of his other work it is completely different from his other stuff. The basic premise is that three people have won a cash prize and an all-expense-paid vacation from a burger joint contest. The catch is that the money and “vacation” is in exchange for the winners to be in a promo commercial for their new “Island Burger.” They are supposed to participate in a local island ritual to release a […]

Hello My name is Raven and I am a book sniffer

This Book of Mine: A Picture Book by Sarah Stewart

May 24, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This Book of Mine: A Picture Book by wife and husband team Sarah Stewart (one heck of a writer) and David Small (one heck of an illustrator) is a poetic look at the things we do with books: read, enjoy, chew, learn, even smell them. WHAT? You have never smelled a book? And you call yourself a bibliophile! All kidding aside, I was not expecting a lot of out this short book. Mostly because my inner kid kicked in when I saw the title and I thought “This […]

Sometimes a book is meant to be read once, then never talked about again….

The Panda Problem by Deborah Underwood

Lana Lynn Howls at the Moon by Rebecca Van Slyke

May 24, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

It is official: I think I have finally read too many picture books! All of them seem to blend together with story lines and themes which makes them seem weak and watered down. At least to me. Does that mean I am going to stop reading picture books? Heck no! Just because both The Panda Problem by Deborah Underwood (illustrations by Hannah Marks) and Lana Lynn Howls at the Moon by Rebecca Van Slyke (illustrated by Anca Sandu) were not my cup of tea, does […]

It’s Erin– Ms Gibson if you’re Feminasty

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

May 23, 2019 by Caitlin_D 6 Comments

I live in a state where Ted “Zodiac Killer” Cruz beat Beto O’Rouke in the Senate, where Greg Abbot succeeded Rick Perry as Governor and where we are so pro-life anti- choice we are considering sentencing women who make the personal decision to have an abortion to the death penalty. Some days it just feels impossible but it isn’t! And when you’re ready to laugh a little through your outrage Erin Gibson will be there for you with Feminasty. I read Gibson’s Feminasty last week when […]

Lets get twisted with Ada Twist

Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants by Andrea Beaty

May 23, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants is a continuing of the picture book series Andrea Beaty and David Roberts started with Iggy Peck, Architect, and Rosie Revere, Engineer and of course, Ada Twist, Scientist. And this chapter book is book two in The Questioneers series for the strong second to third grade reader. There are a few bumps for adult readers, but the age it is aimed at should love. Especially if they are into science, asking questions and funny friendship stories. Like her picture […]

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