Bonnie Lui – Cannonball Read 17

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Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me by Jim Benton

My Little Thief by Augusten Burroughs

A Pizza My Heart by Stephani Stilwell

The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston

March 3, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Time for the round-up of books I want to review but cannot do 250 words each for. They range from picture books to graphic novels. And we see old favoirte authors, new ones, and adult auhotrs coming to dark side (afterall, we are kids and have cookies). Sometimes I like Jim Benton, sometimes I do not. And this was a do not. Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me is a collection of (to some, though the line about running hate for Catwad was amusing) humorous stories […]

The connections never end

So Not Ghoul by Karen Yin

Sunflower Sisters by Monika Singh Gangotra

May 25, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

So Not Ghoul by Karen Yin and Sunflower Sisters by Monika Singh Gangotra have connections in themes and are two very wonderfully different books. However, if you like one, you might just like the other. I will start with the main difference between the two, which is the tone. Yin’s story is while seriously themed, is more humorous, and Gangotra created a story with a more overall serious tone that is still lighthearted in nature. The main and most important similarity is that both the […]

Oh dear Great Spaghetti Monster, they know not what they say in your name

Super Spaghetti by Rebecca Donnelly

June 16, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

At first, I thought Super Spaghetti was going to be about a picky eater. Nope. Then thought that it might be a “Big Anthony” in Strega Nona type of story. Nope. Then I said, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? as our main character, Fred, gets engulfed in spaghetti and turns into a superhero. There are too many things going on that never “meshed” for me. It needed some more sauce to the idea of a boy trying to deal with the invention of a spaghetti maker that went crazy. […]

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