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“Rest makes us more human. It brings us back to our human-ness.”

Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

October 8, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto is a great follow up read to The 1619 Project. I started following Tricia Hersey’s The Nap Ministry in 2017 on Twitter and later on Instagram. I hope this book is read widely and deeply because it could be life saving. It’s the kind of book that people put on their TBR because it seems like an important book, and then they never read it, or read it years later, or pretend they read it. But really, just read it […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: advance reader copy, NetGalley, Rest is Resistance, The Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:108 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: advance reader copy, NetGalley, Rest is Resistance, The Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey ·
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From civil war to safety

Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey by Margriet Ruurs

October 3, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While the story presented in Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey, is fantastic it is the art that really blew me away. It is an experience book that you must experience on your own, without any real background, to fully understand the delicateness of it all.  Margriet Ruurs found the artwork of Nizar Ali Badr online and found the artist after a lot of twists and turns. Long story short (you can read the story in the book), they collaborated. And Stepping Stones was born. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion Tagged With: Arabic, Emigration & Immigration, English, Margriet Ruurs, Middle East, Nizar Ali Badr, refugees, Syria

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:510 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion · Tags: Arabic, Emigration & Immigration, English, Margriet Ruurs, Middle East, Nizar Ali Badr, refugees, Syria ·
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Doesn’t it suck when you’re dead?

Undeaded by Eliott Ventadour

September 30, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The publisher description of  Undeaded by Eliott Ventadour says it all: After being declared clinically dead, traveling salesman Ed Zamsa tries to go on with his life regardless of his strange condition. As if things weren’t hard enough without being dead. Therefore, all I will say this book is WARPED and it is BIZARRE, and it is NOT safe for work. It has language, sex, murder, and mayhem. There is an offbeat sense of humor not everyone will appreciate or get. Even if some of […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: Eliott Ventadour, life & death, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:508 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: Eliott Ventadour, life & death, Social Themes ·
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A window

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown

September 28, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am starting this review of The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown with this statement: Brown has an agenda with this book, but that is not a bad thing.  It is a complicate book with a complicated theme, yet also, straight forward.  I will add, I have rewritten this review too many times. I was well over 600 words at one point. This book was upsetting, enlightening and a not an all together unpleasant journey, but not one for just anyone. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult Tagged With: Civil & Human Rights, Don Brown, Emigration & Immigration, Middle East, Politics & Government, refugee, Social Topics, Syria, Syrian refugee crisis

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:495 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: Civil & Human Rights, Don Brown, Emigration & Immigration, Middle East, Politics & Government, refugee, Social Topics, Syria, Syrian refugee crisis ·
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Images chosen can be disturbing

After the Rain by John Jennings

September 21, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is one messed up book.   Yet, After the Rain based on the Nnedi Okorafor short story, is powerful and probably something we need to read. Violence, graphic image of torture and even rape imagery could be triggers. I would not recommend for under age 14 and I still think that might be too young. KNOW your reader. This is not for sensitive readers as even adults could be disturbed. And no, this should not be read at 11:30 at night because you couldn’t […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Horror, Mystery, Poetry, Religion, Science Fiction Tagged With: culture, David Brame, John Jennings, Nigeria, Nigerian American young women, Nnedi Okorafor, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:494 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Horror, Mystery, Poetry, Religion, Science Fiction · Tags: culture, David Brame, John Jennings, Nigeria, Nigerian American young women, Nnedi Okorafor, Social Themes ·
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Three Sisters, One Nation

Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story by Danielle Greendeer

September 16, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story might not be a great book (meaning it has all the bells, whistle, computer generated cuteness, and all the “I’m okay you’re okay” lovey-dovey stuff you see in a contemporary book), but it is a solid book. And it is a book with staying power that might just become a classic. It is an important book, a poetic book, and a strong representation of the Thanksgiving story told from another perspective. My score of 4 is really a 4.5 as I […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion Tagged With: Alexis C. Bunten, Antony Perry, Danielle Greendeer, Garry Meeches Sr, Holidays & Celebrations, Legends & Myths & Fables, Thanksgiving Day, Wampanoag

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:487 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion · Tags: Alexis C. Bunten, Antony Perry, Danielle Greendeer, Garry Meeches Sr, Holidays & Celebrations, Legends & Myths & Fables, Thanksgiving Day, Wampanoag ·
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