CBR15Passport – Page 31 – Cannonball Read 17

This was just such a fun ride

Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik

February 5, 2023 by Mobius_Walker 1 Comment

I received this book from the marvelous @teresaelectro as part of the 2022 Cannonball Read Book Exchange. Let me start by saying this book was simply a ton of fun. Captain Tavi Zarola is a former military captain who runs a small bounty-hunting crew. Though the massive inter-galactic war between the humans and the Valovians is over, tensions are still high. There’s peace in the galaxy, but it is precarious. Maintaining that peace is what is on Tavi’s mind when she is approached by the […]

A Little Women “Re-miss”

So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow

February 4, 2023 by jomidi Leave a Comment

My YA book group selection for February is So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow. It is a take off of Little Women where the family is recently freed slaves and the time period is the civil war. I assume it was selected for Black History Month. The March family in this book are Mammie and her 4 girls: Meg a teacher, Jo a writer, Beth a seamstress, and Amy a dancer (although these nicknames are based on different names […]

It’s the end of the day and I can’t come up with a good title so, here it is….

Remember by Joy Harjo

Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, a Young Artist in Harlem by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

February 3, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The theme of the review: Cool books you need on your shelves to read. And CBR15Passport, new to me author(s) (but I know one artist) When you pick up Remember by Joy Harjo you will find a poetic piece of artwork. Michaela Goade adds to this by painting imagery that is bold, bright, deep, romantic, serious, and light. The mixture of the text and illustrations gives a story of family, the individuality, and the authors Mvskoke Nation heritage. It is a celebration of looking around […]

The stories might be appropriate, but the company is not

Lucky Girl: How I Became a Horror Writer: A Krampus Story by M. Rickert

February 3, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

If you ring the bell, remember it cannot be undone. And when that happens, the monsters come out to play. But of course, they do not play by any rules known to man or woman. But one thing is for certain, the monsters come, and they can find each other and you. One Thanksgiving five strangers meet up in a diner that will be closing its doors forever soon. Ro, narrator of and the title girl in Lucky Girl: How I Became a Horror Writer: […]

Been sleeping on this guy. Even Madonna beat me to it.

Gold by Rumi

February 2, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

A great first meeting story. The year was 1244, when Rumi met Shams in a bazaar in Konya, Persia. Rumi was a young scholar, and Shams, about twenty years older, was a wandering free thinker. They got to discussing literature, and Shams challenged Rumi to find his own voice. Over the course of two years of traveling together, Rumi did just that, and produced sixty five thousand some verses. This book samples that work. I first ran into his name whilst reading a book on […]

We were boys who had created ourselves

Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore

February 2, 2023 by Debcapsfan 1 Comment

Cannonball passport- New author How lovely is that cover? Self-Made Boys is a retelling of the Great Gatsby by Anna-Marie McLemore. I picked this up from the library after it was recommended on the podcast Worst Bestsellers. At the end of the year they do a compilation of the best books they read that year, probably to combat all of the terrible books they read for the podcast. So in this retelling, Jay and Nick are trans. I’m sure this book has been banned or […]

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