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Trick or Treat smell my….yeah not going there…..

October 11, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Skelly’s Halloween would be the perfect book for the young Halloween crowd. They will enjoy the silly antics that go along with a sweet story of a skeleton that just wants to go trick-or-treating as he is only awake for this one day. And all he wants to do is to celebrate Halloween. However, he has an accident that just makes him go all to pieces! And well….it takes more than the all the kings horses and kings men to put Skelly back together again. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: David Martin, halloween, Lori Richmond

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:382 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: David Martin, halloween, Lori Richmond ·
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Does the boogeyman have boogers?

October 10, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Does Frankenstein Get Hungry? That is the question on the mind of a little sleepless girl. Well, one of many questions anyway. These questions make the “ghoulish seem foolish” and as she asks them, she is able to overcome her fears of the “things in the dark.” Monsters are no match for the imagination of this heroine! Of course, the adult will realize what is going on, especially on the last page as certain things come to light. The illustrations of debut author John Solimine […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:380 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: ·
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Nice guy ™ can’t get laid. Now featuring the entire history of the Dominican Republic.

October 10, 2018 by tillie 2 Comments

What a great title for a book. What a shame that the book does not deal in either brevity or anything that resembles an account of Oscar’s life. This book was an absolute slog to get through. From the overt sexualization of women to the complete lack of plot there was nothing to be gained and certainly no connection to be made with any character. “The next day at breakfast he asked his mother: Am I ugly? She sighed. Well, hijo, you certainly don’t take […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, contemporary, Fiction, junot diaz, Mathildehoeg, the brief wondrous life of oscar wao

tillie's CBR10 Review No:36 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, contemporary, Fiction, junot diaz, Mathildehoeg, the brief wondrous life of oscar wao ·
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I would have done it, too, if it weren’t for…

October 10, 2018 by sistercoyote 1 Comment

The What If of this book can be summed up as: What if Mystery, Inc., had actually tangled with chthonic beasts and didn’t realize it until their mid-twenties? What I thought of Meddling Kids? Well, that’s a bit of a mystery, too.

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: #CBR10, Edgar Cantero, Fiction, horror, humor, LGBTQIA, mystery, sistercoyote, underrepresented

sistercoyote's CBR10 Review No:10 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: #CBR10, Edgar Cantero, Fiction, horror, humor, LGBTQIA, mystery, sistercoyote, underrepresented ·
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Three quarters of the way through I finally “got” why cheese was so prominent in this book

October 10, 2018 by Dome'Loki 2 Comments

In February 2016 two authors, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne, were stuck in an airport and decided it was time to kill the proverbial farm boy.  Specifically, it was time to make fun of white male power fantasies that typically involve a boy being destined for greater than his humble beginnings because he is somehow special, and all the tropes that often accompany those stories.  And so they wrote Kill the Farm Boy.  The elements are all familiar; there is a chosen one, a talking […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, comedy, Delilah S. Dawson, Dome'Loki, fantasy, Fiction, kevin hearne

Dome'Loki's CBR10 Review No:40 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, comedy, Delilah S. Dawson, Dome'Loki, fantasy, Fiction, kevin hearne ·
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Everything okay, even the Armadillo

October 10, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I really adore Sandra Boynton’s work. Her whimsical, quirky and bright illustrations and delightfully charming text has many memories of reading to children or just experiencing it with the eyes of a child well into my adulthood. When I saw that she had a new book coming out I was overjoyed! But perhaps I was expecting too much. Perhaps I just had too high hopes for it, but when I read But Not the Armadillo it did not live up to expectations. Sadly, it just […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: animals, Mammals, Play, Sandra Boynton

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:378 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: animals, Mammals, Play, Sandra Boynton ·
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