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“For I was indeed a student of human nature, as every orphan and hooker and unwanted kid must be.”

Vera by Carol Edgarian

July 26, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR 17 Bingo: Family – Central to Vera’s story is a desire for a family in which she can truly belong, and her outside status with both her birth mother and her foster family. Vera has always lived under the shadow of a great secret – though raised as the younger daughter in a Swedish household, she is actually the daughter of San Francisco’s greatest madams. In the aftermath of the great earthquake of 1906, these worlds come tumbling together. I remember it was a […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: audiobook, Carol Edgarian, cbr17bingo, coming-of-age, early 1900s, historical, San Francisco, United States

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:41 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: audiobook, Carol Edgarian, cbr17bingo, coming-of-age, early 1900s, historical, San Francisco, United States ·
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Kin in Far-flung Places

A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao

July 20, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Diaspora – This story is intimately bound up in the experience of the Indian diaspora in colonial Fiji, who went to work there as indentured servants but were in reality little more than slaves. Caught between demotion and disgrace, Indian police officer Akal Singh is instead posted to colonial Fiji, where an investigation into the vanishing of an indentured Indian woman from a sugarcane plantation is complicated by the political pressures within the British Empire. I’m a sucker for an unusual setting in […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Mystery Tagged With: audiobook, cbr17bingo, colonialism, early 1900s, historical, historical mystery, India, mystery, Nilima Rao, Oceania

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:40 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Mystery · Tags: audiobook, cbr17bingo, colonialism, early 1900s, historical, historical mystery, India, mystery, Nilima Rao, Oceania ·
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Let there be light and community 

The Light Keeper by Sheila Baslaw

August 26, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Recently an email pops into my work emails and it says that I have been chosen to read a book in an online reader format. Fantastic! When did I enter/ask for this book?  I could not remember even seeing The Light Keeper by Sheila Baslaw, Karen Levine, and Alice Priestley before. But that would work in my favor as I had no preconceived notions about things.  While I have read the theme of the story before (the idea of being brave), it was new and […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion Tagged With: Alice Priestley, community, early 1900s, Eastern Europe, europe, Jewish child in Russia, Karen Levine, Sheila Baslaw, shtetls, Social Themes, technology, values

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:391 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion · Tags: Alice Priestley, community, early 1900s, Eastern Europe, europe, Jewish child in Russia, Karen Levine, Sheila Baslaw, shtetls, Social Themes, technology, values ·
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