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When One Summer Turns into the Important Summer

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

August 5, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

#cbr11bingo #Listicle 2015 Caldecott Honor (List of Caldecott books of 2015 This is a snap shot of two girls during the summer their innocence is partly-lost, one comes of age and both learn that growing pains take on different forms. This premise of This One Summer by cousin collaborators, Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, has been seen before, but the characters make it fresh. Rose is an only child, slightly older than her summer friend Windy. Her parents, while modern, do have a more conservative attitude […]

Well, I Didn’t See That Coming

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

August 5, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Classic The closest I had ever come to reading an actual Sherlock Holmes novel was a young readers’ version of The Hound of the Baskervilles more than two and half decades ago. Since then, it’s been mostly adaptations like the Mary Russell mystery novels, the Guy Ritchie movies, and of course, the more recent Lady Sherlock novels. The first two of those deal with Sherlock Holmes later in life, with the Holmes-Watson relationship already established, so I was surprised that the two men […]

Famous Last Words

Looking for Alaska by John Green

August 5, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Banned Books There are a few categories on the Bingo board that have looked slightly more homework like to me than others, and I had the feeling Banned Books was going to be one of them. Fortunately for me, the Top Ten Most Challenged lists of books contain quite a few modern YA novels because of course teachers would want to include current novels to appeal to their students. I had already read a few of them, and some of the choices were […]

Watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

August 5, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR11 Bingo: Pajiba (reviewed by Kayleigh here) (Would also work for “Award winner”, “Own voices”, “Listicle”, “Cannonballer Says”, and possibly, “Far and Away”) Official book description: Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps […]

Do you take this romance to be your NotMyWheelHouse book?

The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date #3) by Jasmine Guillory

August 5, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

#cbr11bingo #NotMyWheelHouse The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date #3) is my #NotMyWheelhouse read. I do not do romances. Nothing wrong with them, I think they are lovely things to read. And if I was going to branch out into a romance novel, I believe Jasmine Guillory was a good reintroduction as I have read a Harlequin novel or two, a Jackie Collins and, of course, books with romances in them, but overall, not my cup of tea. But of course, I get their appeal completely! […]

The Big Nothing

The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon

August 5, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

A university student who blames herself for her mother’s death becomes more and more involved in a dangerous cult’s activities that begin to veer ever closer towards terrorism. There are some big topics being tackled here, be it fanaticism, cults, the loss of faith, or the search for some greater purpose. Not one of those topics, however, is being handled with the care and precision they warrant, on the contrary, everything is just mixed together and treated in the most superficial way. The characters have […]

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