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The Other American Dream

American (And the art of getting over it) by Luke Healy

March 24, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

American (And the art of getting over it) by Luke Healy can be slow in a few places. A few times I was feeling as if I was hiking a long, hot and sometimes repetitious trail. But overall the novel-graphic novel memoir is an interesting look at another American Dream. Luke grew up in Ireland with a tight family, quirky and during a time when many young Irish people were leaving Ireland for work in other places. And he had a dream. A dream to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Canada, hiking, Ireland, Luke Healy, Pacific Crest Trail, West - Pacific (CA//OR/WA)

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:129 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Canada, hiking, Ireland, Luke Healy, Pacific Crest Trail, West - Pacific (CA//OR/WA) ·
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Toronto: If you make it there, you can be a Comic Book Star (1939-1945)

War Bears by Margaret Atwood

March 17, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

People study the history of a nation. They study the history of that nation’s literature. They study how wars happened, the facts during and the aftermath. But do they ever write about the history of the Comic Book? The Graphic Novel? War Bears is an homage to “The Canadian Whites” and a history of World War Two. Moral back home was important, but also important was the moral of the troops. And the comics that “boys (and gals) back home” made kept spirits up. And […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Young Adult Tagged With: 1939-1945, Canada, Ken Steacy, Margaret Atwood, War comics, World War, World War Two

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:122 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Young Adult · Tags: 1939-1945, Canada, Ken Steacy, Margaret Atwood, War comics, World War, World War Two ·
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All Manner of Things Will Be Well

Glass Houses (Inspector Gamache #13) by Louise Penny

February 29, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

There is, at least for me, somewhat of a struggle on deciding how to review a book deep into a series. Glass Houses is Louise Penny’s thirteenth Inspector Gamache book, and as she publishes a new one each year the sixteenth in the series will publish in September. There is so much backstory that feeds each new novel that I can’t rightly tell you to read this one if you haven’t read its predecessors, but I can emphatically tell you that if you like murder […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Canada, faintingviolet, Glass Houses, Inspector Gamache, Louise Penny, murder mystery, mystery, read harder challenge, Three Pines

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Canada, faintingviolet, Glass Houses, Inspector Gamache, Louise Penny, murder mystery, mystery, read harder challenge, Three Pines ·
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They paved paradise But she paved the way

Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell by Selina Alko

February 25, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Our musical tastes are formed by a variety of ways. My first influence was my mother. I knew who Elvis was before I could shake my hips and dance in my blue suede shoes! I even knew old school and (then) contemporary (nowadays “classics” and the classics “that old stuff”) country music. One day my I was gifted some 45s of one of my uncles and it was all over. The Beatles were the thing. And musical experimentation of an odd teen (i.e.: I was […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: 20th Century, Canada, folk musicians, Joni Mitchell, music, Selina Alko, Women folk musicians, Women singers

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:102 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: 20th Century, Canada, folk musicians, Joni Mitchell, music, Selina Alko, Women folk musicians, Women singers ·
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“I hate to be sanctimonious about it, but it turns out that good conversation solves a great many problems.”

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

December 30, 2019 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

I don’t read all that much alternative history, so it took a bit of digging through my to read list in order to find something to read for Read Harder’s Task 2. But, sure enough I had one and while I let it sit to very late (although not the latest on my to read list for this year’s challenges) it was an enjoyable, if slightly unexpected, read. For plot summary purposes I’m going to borrow from Goodreads, since I’m not sure I could do […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: alternate history, Canada, E.K. Johnston, faintingviolet, read harder challenge, reading women, That Inevitable Victorian Thing

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:64 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: alternate history, Canada, E.K. Johnston, faintingviolet, read harder challenge, reading women, That Inevitable Victorian Thing ·
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Continually Thankful My Own Mother Doesn’t Use Her Knowledge of Romance Novel Tropes Against Her Children

A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau

A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas by Jackie Lau

December 23, 2019 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

We’ve reached the time of year where I usually plow through a couple holiday romance novellas while traveling and wind up my Cannonball year. I’ve read two such novellas (and have emmalita to thank for getting them on my radar) and I couldn’t be happier about it. It has also added a new to me author to my buy list so thank goodness I just got a gift card for books in my work Secret Santa! A Match Made for Thanksgiving and A Second Chance […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Canada, faintingviolet, holiday romance, Holidays With the Wongs, Jackie Lau, meddling families, novella, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:62 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Canada, faintingviolet, holiday romance, Holidays With the Wongs, Jackie Lau, meddling families, novella, we need diverse books ·
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