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Mythic Alphabet Murders and Staying Normal

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix

July 13, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 2: Part 2 I’m going a tad bit literal here as The Sinister Booksellers of Bath is a sequel. Once again, it’s in 1980s London, Bath, and nearby areas, with some excursions into locations/times folkloric or supernatural. Susan, Merlin, Vivien, and the rest of the booksellers and associates are all back as well. There are essentially two mysteries on hand, both involving Susan: there’s the disappearances and murders in a realm out of time and sort of space, and then there’s Susan’s growing sense […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr16bingo, folklore, garth nix, The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR16 Review No:41 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, cbr16bingo, folklore, garth nix, The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, YA ·
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Now I have to wait until November/December for book 8!

Asadora!Vol. 7 by Naoki Urasawa

July 12, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr16bingo Rings (Japan hosting the 1964 Olympics) Asadora!Vol. 7 by Naoki Urasawa is a manga series that I, for some reason, became hooked on. I am not a manga reader, especially when it is in the traditional Japanese format. I do not usually like horror or monsters. And honestly, a couple of the characters in the story are stereotypes of Japanese people, with the “slant eyes,” odd mustaches, and old/ugly. And yet, there is something about the character Asa that just “gets me” in the […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Sports, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr16bingo, East Asian Style, family, friendship, manga, Naoki Urasawa, Occult & Supernatural

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:326 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Sports, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: cbr16bingo, East Asian Style, family, friendship, manga, Naoki Urasawa, Occult & Supernatural ·
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American Dream or Vanity Project?

Liberty by Julian Voloj

July 12, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr16bingo Vintage (Of an age) and the statue is over 40 years old…so counts)  Liberty by Julian Voloj and illustrated by Jorg Hartmann is a solid, strong book about the Statue of Liberty. There are creative illustrations that bring to life not just the ins and outs of the statue, but the history and the feelings of the times. We see the country through the eyes of a well-to-do Frenchman, his contemporaries and how France and the US differ and are similar. What little I […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: architecture, cbr16bingo, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, Jorg Hartmann, Julian Voloj, Landmarks & Monuments, Statue of Liberty

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:323 · Genres: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: architecture, cbr16bingo, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, Jorg Hartmann, Julian Voloj, Landmarks & Monuments, Statue of Liberty ·
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Mystery and Superheroes

Just Like Click by Sandy Grubb

July 12, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr16bingo Horses (see below) Have you ever read a book where you thought, “This is an okay book. It’s not WOW, but not poor either.” Yet, you just can’t say that everyone should read it? That was how Just Like Click by Sandy Grubb was for me.  I started reading via an online reader copy, then found an actual copy. This helped me see things a little better/able to read a bit easier, but still, since the book was physically stiff, I didn’t like how […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: Action & Adventure, cbr16bingo, family, friendship, parents, Sandy Grubb, siblings, superheroes

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:322 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: Action & Adventure, cbr16bingo, family, friendship, parents, Sandy Grubb, siblings, superheroes ·
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Anything but plain

Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

July 12, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr16bingo Liberate: (Jane tries to liberate herself from the bonds of being a woman; the mermaids try to liberate themselves from ageing) Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol was on my radar for some time, but I never found a copy and reading time at the same time. I’m not sure what I expected, or honestly to like it as much as I did. I thought it would be cute, funny, not WOW but also not mediocre. And while there are no real surprises […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: adventure, cbr16bingo, friendship, Inheritance and succession, magic, oceans, orphans, selkies, Social Themes, Vera Brosgol

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:321 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: adventure, cbr16bingo, friendship, Inheritance and succession, magic, oceans, orphans, selkies, Social Themes, Vera Brosgol ·
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“Miss, you have a jellyfish in your eye”

The Jellyfish by Boum

July 12, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr16bingo Dun-Dun (dread of the medical condition our main character has) What I expected from the cover of The Jellyfish by Boum (translated by Robin Lang and Helge Dascher) was not what I got.  I got my physical copy of the book soon after it came out, but it took months to get to it. Then a weekend came, I tripped over the box that I had put it in (moving things around) and decided it was time to clean up things. And when I […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: Boum, cbr16bingo, Diseases, gender-nonconforming, Helge Dascher, LGBTQ, Robin Lang, Social Themes, women

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:320 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: Boum, cbr16bingo, Diseases, gender-nonconforming, Helge Dascher, LGBTQ, Robin Lang, Social Themes, women ·
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