indigenous people – Cannonball Read 17

Talking goats, the common cold and other ways to change history

Earthdivers V01: Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones

Earthdivers V02: Ice Age! by Stephen Graham Jones

October 6, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Time travel books. I like the concept of them and even have enjoyed some time traveling TV shows and movies, and I have even enjoyed some books with the theme. However, they also can confuse the bejimminies out of me. The Earthdivers series had all the good stuff I like about books and time traveling books but also all the pieces that confuse me. And while things are fairly straight forward, when people start to backtrack on themselves, it gets confusing. Part of this is […]

Magical Mystery Ride

A Girl Called Echo Omnibus (Combined Volume) by Katherena Vermette

November 2, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A while back, I read the first volume in A Girl Called Echo series. And recently I was given a finished copy of the Omnibus. I like the word omnibus. I picture a large bus that has wings or something magical about it. And it carries a lot of things inside of it. And that fits this story by Katherena Vermette as they created a story that has elements of the here and now, and time travel. Or a bit of magic. I have not […]

The battle for home

Amazona by Canizales

June 12, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Have you read a book and thought, “Well. Now what about that?” You are not sure what you are feeling about it. Oh, you know it is not a “I disliked this,” but is it a “I liked it” read? Amazona was like that for me. Canizales story (translated by Sofia Huitron Martinez) is a multiple layered story about how Columbia’s actions against their native population and the land affect everyone; and not just in their country, but worldwide. There were several bumps for me […]

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