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Cover for the graphic novel Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu

All the Warmth and Comfort of a Freshly Baked Pie

Check, Please! #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu

Check, Please! Sticks & Scones by Ngozi Ukazu

October 30, 2023 by Kit Moonstar Leave a Comment

Eric Bittle has just started at Samwell University on a hockey scholarship.  He’s excited to start his college career, especially someplace where he can be open about the fact that he’s gay.  However, college hockey is quite different from what he’s been playing and Eric can’t take a check without collapsing on the ice.  While most of the team is pretty welcoming, quickly bestowing then nickname Bitty on him, Eric’s captain is another story.  Still, armed with freshly baked pie and a can do attitude, […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance, Sports Tagged With: cbr15bingo, Ngozi Ukazu

Kit Moonstar's CBR15 Review No:51 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance, Sports · Tags: cbr15bingo, Ngozi Ukazu ·
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Warfare of soccer at Bull Run Regional Park (and other stuff)

Team Photograph by Lauren Haldeman

October 26, 2023 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

What the flaming monkey toots did I just read? Or more accurately, took me a few days to read. Team Photograph is an artist’s interpretation of Lauren Haldeman’s experiences and feelings. When I first finished the online (though currently available) reader copy, I was thinking, “Is Team Photograph a memoir? An attempt at purging the feelings she has about death? Is it a commentary on war and the resulting death that will haunt people if they are aware of it? Or is it just a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Poetry, Sports Tagged With: battles, Bull Run, civil war, Fairfax Station Virginia, ghosts, identities, Lauren Haldeman, literary, Places, siblings, Soccer, Social Themes, themes, topics

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:778 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Poetry, Sports · Tags: battles, Bull Run, civil war, Fairfax Station Virginia, ghosts, identities, Lauren Haldeman, literary, Places, siblings, Soccer, Social Themes, themes, topics ·
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Science, but fun

Angela’s Glacier by Jordan Scott

Climbing the Volcano by Curtis Manley

October 23, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Science was never my thing growing up. However, maybe if I was exposed to/had more science based stories, that mixed effortlessly fact and fiction, I might have gotten into things more. The titles (both due January 2024 and read via online reader copies) Angela’s Glacier and Climbing the Volcano would be the first two I would want to read.  Jordan Scott’s Angela’s Glacier is a unique way of telling us to “stop and smell the glacier.” Or for most of us, to stop and smell […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Sports Tagged With: Camping, coming-of-age, Curtis Manley, Diana Sudyka, Environment, family, Jennifer K. Mann, Jordan Scott, Outdoor Activities, parents, Science & Nature, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:766 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Sports · Tags: Camping, coming-of-age, Curtis Manley, Diana Sudyka, Environment, family, Jennifer K. Mann, Jordan Scott, Outdoor Activities, parents, Science & Nature, Social Themes ·
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All it needed was Brendan Frasier

Fantasy Sports V01: Court of Souls by Sam Bosma

October 16, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The time came for me to look at old saved links for online reader copies. And one that I had been wanting to read, but the time was never  really right, was Fantasy Sports V01: Court of Souls. I figured that the Sam Bosma graphic novel might be a Space Jam of sorts. (Not that I have seen Space Jam one or two, but what I figure it was like) and it was nothing like that. Things were if The Mummy meets Indiana Jones meets […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Sports, Young Adult Tagged With: basketball, debut graphic novel, explorers, magic, manga, mummies, Sam Bosma

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:747 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: basketball, debut graphic novel, explorers, magic, manga, mummies, Sam Bosma ·
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September 2023 Leftovers

Ex Machina, Book Five by Brian K. Vaughan

Windfall by Wendy Corsi Staub

The Big Bundle by Max Allan Collins

The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri

Guts and Genius: The Story of Three Unlikely Coaches Who Came to Dominate the NFL in the '80s by Bob Glauber

October 3, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Let’s please do something about climate change before it’s too late. I miss fall. And far more importantly: people’s lives are at stake. Ex Machina Book Five **** Mixed feelings on how this series ended. I think in many respects, the superhero stuff was handled better than the political angle through most of its run. That’s not something I thought I’d be saying after the first book. Making Mayor Hundred a contrarian centrist type was uninspired back then and comes off as even more annoying […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, Sports, Suspense Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Andrea Camilleri, Bill Parcells, Bill Walsh, Bob Glauber, Brian K. Vaughan, Ex Machina, Ex Machina Book Five, football, Graphic Novel, Guts and Genius, Heller, historical fiction, Inspector Montalbano, Jimmy Hoffa, Joe Gibbs, Max Allan Collins, mystery, Nathan Heller, New York City, nfl, politics, Robert F Kennedy, Sicily, sports, super heroes, The Big Bundle, The Snack Thief, Wendy Corsi Staub, Windfall

Jake's CBR15 Review No:142 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, Sports, Suspense · Tags: #Science Fiction, Andrea Camilleri, Bill Parcells, Bill Walsh, Bob Glauber, Brian K. Vaughan, Ex Machina, Ex Machina Book Five, football, Graphic Novel, Guts and Genius, Heller, historical fiction, Inspector Montalbano, Jimmy Hoffa, Joe Gibbs, Max Allan Collins, mystery, Nathan Heller, New York City, nfl, politics, Robert F Kennedy, Sicily, sports, super heroes, The Big Bundle, The Snack Thief, Wendy Corsi Staub, Windfall ·
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Tennis, Anyone?

Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

October 1, 2023 by Melina Leave a Comment

I played a lot of sports in middle school and high school and somehow, I had never touched a tennis racket until about two years ago.  I promptly put that racket back after that first outing, because I was absolutely terrible.  I have read a lot of TJR’s books and really loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, I like Daisy Jones and the Six, and I enjoyed the rest of her oeuvre enough to read them on the beach. So it shouldn’t have been […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Sports Tagged With: Carrie Soto is back, Melina, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis

Melina's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Sports · Tags: Carrie Soto is back, Melina, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis ·
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