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No Human Being is Illegal

Illegal by Eoin Colfer

July 16, 2019 by LanierHgts 2 Comments

“You, who are so-called illegal aliens, must know that no human being is illegal.  That is a contradiction in terms.  Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal?  How can a human being be illegal?”  Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor So starts this graphic novel geared toward tween/teen readers (I would suggest ages 10 and over).  As a lawyer formerly working in immigration defense, and in light of the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr11bingo, eoin colfer, Youths!

LanierHgts's CBR11 Review No:6 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: cbr11bingo, eoin colfer, Youths! ·
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I love that I got to read two good books and get to tell y’all about them

Real Friends by Shannon Hale

Sunny Side Up by Jennifer Holmes

July 16, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

#cbr11bingo  #ILoveThis   (Warning long review) This is the second time I have read Real Friends by Shannon Hale. And it is still as good, if not better this time around. The great thing about this newer generation of graphic novels is that they are so much more relatable than they used to be. Of course, there is still the stigma that they are “just comics” but even “back in the day” they were so much more than that. Books like Shannon Hale, Jennifer Holm or […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: cbr11bingo, family, friends, Jennifer Holm, LeUyen Pham, Matthew Holmm, Shannon Hale, siblings

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:277 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: cbr11bingo, family, friends, Jennifer Holm, LeUyen Pham, Matthew Holmm, Shannon Hale, siblings ·
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Not your typical Mother-Daughter story.

The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin

July 16, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo – Award Winner (2017 Hugo Award)   This is the second book in the Broken Earth Triology, and picks up immediately after book one. Basically this entire review will be a spoiler, if you haven’t read the first book… sooo… stop here if you haven’t read them, but want to?). As the disaster that is this Season intensifies, Essun and Hoa (who she has learned is a stone-eater, and not a child at all) have found refuge in a community that is surviving […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, cbr11bingo, nkjemisin, theobeliskgate

kella's CBR11 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, cbr11bingo, nkjemisin, theobeliskgate ·
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Only Enjoyed Mowgli and Rikki Tikki Tavi Stories

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kiplin

July 16, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

So here’s the thing. I of course have seen the Disney version of The Jungle book cartoon. Also I have seen the cartoon about Rikki Tikki Tavi that used to play I think either on USA Network or Nickelodeon as a kid. I so wanted to live among wolves and buy a mongoose. My mom said nope to both things. So when I read this the other day, I had no idea this version had the Mowgli stories as well as a few others (I […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, Children's, classics, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

Classic's CBR11 Review No:169 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, Children's, classics, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book ·
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Three orogenes walk into a bar…

The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin

July 16, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo – And So It Begins   This trilogy has long been on my radar and I picked it up on vacation at the beginning of the month, knowing that I’d have a few interrupted days to really dig my teeth into them. [the bonus I didn’t realize until after the fact: each book satisfies a bingo square requirement; thank you vacation-packing gods] The Fifth Season introduces us to The Stillness, a fictional, futuristic land. It’s a land populated by humans, but some of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: andsoitbegins, cbr11bingo, fantasty, nkjemisin, thefifthseason

kella's CBR11 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: andsoitbegins, cbr11bingo, fantasty, nkjemisin, thefifthseason ·
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Can You See Me America?

I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin

July 16, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

I heard about the movie, but had no idea there was a companion book to it.   “In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck’s film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin’s private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.” The writing, essays, the photos that […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: African-American, cbr11bingo, I Am Not Your Negro, James Baldwin, non fiction, Race

Classic's CBR11 Review No:168 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: African-American, cbr11bingo, I Am Not Your Negro, James Baldwin, non fiction, Race ·
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