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For Three!

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery by Rosalie Knecht

Never Easy, Never Pretty: A Fan, A Team, A Championship Season by Dean Bartoli Smith

August 17, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Knocked out three books this weekend, all of which I enjoyed to varying degrees…   The Book of Three A cute, charming fantasy novel. Perhaps a little too derivative of LOTR (the wolf-like character might as well have been called “Gollum”) but still entertaining and occasionally refreshing when compared to the rest of the genre. I also enjoyed a compelling female character that had autonomy without having to be everyone’s Hashtag Badass Woman (in other words: I appreciate a male writer who can write a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: #fantasy, Baltimore, Baltimore Ravens, Chronicles of Prydain, Dean Bartoli Smith, Dominican Republic, football, historical fiction, lloyd alexander, mystery, Never Easy Never Pretty, NYC, Rosalie Knecht, sports, the book of three, Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery, Young Adult

Jake's CBR13 Review No:129 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: #fantasy, Baltimore, Baltimore Ravens, Chronicles of Prydain, Dean Bartoli Smith, Dominican Republic, football, historical fiction, lloyd alexander, mystery, Never Easy Never Pretty, NYC, Rosalie Knecht, sports, the book of three, Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery, Young Adult ·
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Breaking ice and barriers

Check, Please!, Book 2: Sticks & Scones by Ngozi Ukazu

August 17, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr13bingo Sportsball  This time around Ngozi Ukazu is heavy on relationship status and less focus on hockey in Check, Please!, Book 2: Sticks & Scones. Bitty and Jack now have a relationship that is never totally fleshed out but is presented with the “highlights” of events. Jack has his hockey career, Bitty has his last few years of college, hockey, vlogging, and baking. Yet, the two must deal with the ups and downs of one being openly gay, in a welcoming community and the other […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance, Sports, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr13bingo, college, coming-of-age, gender roles, GLTBQ+, hockey, Ngozi Ukazu, sports

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:218 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: cbr13bingo, college, coming-of-age, gender roles, GLTBQ+, hockey, Ngozi Ukazu, sports ·
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“How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.” #CBRBINGO – Shelfie

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

July 9, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 20/30 This is my favorite thing John Green has written. I loved it so much I let it start getting me behind in reviews again. I kind of hope he never goes back to writing fiction. (In fact, in the introduction to this book he expresses the sentiment that he might not! I don’t have the book with me right now to reference, but he talks briefly about his frustration with readers confusing him with his characters, and how […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: #history, #memoir, adapted from a podcast, cbr13bingo, essays, humor, john green, non fiction, Pop Culture, sports, the anthropocene reviewed

narfna's CBR13 Review No:100 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: #history, #memoir, adapted from a podcast, cbr13bingo, essays, humor, john green, non fiction, Pop Culture, sports, the anthropocene reviewed ·
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Minor minor league hockey romance. #CBRBINGO – Sportsball

Breakaway (Scoring Chances, #1) by Avon Gale

July 6, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 3/30 This was a good time. I was really into it at the beginning, but then the tension sort of fizzled out near the middle. It had a pretty strong ending, though. I’m definitely going to check out later books in the series, because some of the summaries seem like they will be a little more angsty. This was mostly just bantery and fluffy and full of hockey stuff. I almost bumped it up to four stars, but that […]

Filed Under: Romance, Sports Tagged With: Avon Gale, cbr13bingo, Contemporary Romance, hockey, hockey romance, LGBTQIA, m/m, narfna, Romance, sports romance, sportsball

narfna's CBR13 Review No:83 · Genres: Romance, Sports · Tags: Avon Gale, cbr13bingo, Contemporary Romance, hockey, hockey romance, LGBTQIA, m/m, narfna, Romance, sports romance, sportsball ·
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And so it begins…with a Spike!

Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate

July 3, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 1: Sportsball Haikyu!! Translates to “Volleyball!!”, thus this series is fitting for the Sportsball square. Here I present volumes 1-2. In most every way this is a standard school sports story. There are two different guys, they were rivals, but now they have to figure out how to get along. One has some natural talent but not training and a lot of enthusiasm (Hinata), and it’s been his dream to be like a kid he saw on tv playing in a volleyball championship game; […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Sports Tagged With: anime, cbr13bingo, Haikyu!!, Haruichi Furudate, high school, manga, sports, volleyball, volume 2, voume 1

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Sports · Tags: anime, cbr13bingo, Haikyu!!, Haruichi Furudate, high school, manga, sports, volleyball, volume 2, voume 1 ·
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How to suck the soul out of running

Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession by Richard Askwith

June 22, 2021 by The Book Omnivore 5 Comments

This was not a good book, no matter what Goodreads tells you. It had its good moments, but on the whole it was a dull, shallow, disjointed, problematic book. As evidenced by the fact that it took me 3 weeks to fight my way through it. I don’t even know how to begin to describe it because I am not sure what the author’s purpose was. Parts of the book present the history of fell running in the UK. Parts of it are biographical in […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: Richard Askwith

The Book Omnivore's CBR13 Review No:36 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: Richard Askwith ·
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