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The Lonely Lighthouse: The Story of Little Sable Point Lighthouse by Stephanie Owen

October 21, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Picture books have become one of my favorite reading choices. I like the details and yet they can (sometimes) be no more than 40-50 pages. I get the satisfaction of reading and finishing a book usually in one sitting. And I also might learn something new if it is a historical or factual book. And The Lonely Lighthouse: The Story of Little Sable Point Lighthouse by Stephanie Owen covers all the bases. Due in mid April 2026 (read via an online reader copy), this is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: architecture, light house, Little Sable Point Lighthouse, Michigan, monuments, National Parks, Sona Avedikian, Stephanie Owen, United States

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:459 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: architecture, light house, Little Sable Point Lighthouse, Michigan, monuments, National Parks, Sona Avedikian, Stephanie Owen, United States ·
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This reminds me of a younger Summer of My German Soldier

Enemies in the Orchard: A World War 2 Novel in Verse by Dana VanderLugt

April 9, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Enemies in the Orchard: A World War 2 Novel in Verse by Dana VanderLugt is a combination of a sweet and informative book. Perhaps it is also a bit idealistic, as it shows a part of World War II that is not known as well as other parts of American history, and is done in a “less intense” way. It is an interesting look at war and friendship nonetheless. There is a double POV story telling that is a familiar format, but adds to the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: 20th Century, community, Dana VanderLugt, family, friendship, German solider, Holocaust, Labor camps, loss & grief, Michigan, prisoners of war, World War II United States

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:182 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: 20th Century, community, Dana VanderLugt, family, friendship, German solider, Holocaust, Labor camps, loss & grief, Michigan, prisoners of war, World War II United States ·
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Writing for you and me and herself

Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy

February 28, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have not read a lot of Huda Fahmy’s works, but what I do know is that they are an important voice in today’s literary world. Not because she is a woman or because she is Muslim, but because she is someone who is writing about experiences we all face.  I picked up Huda F Are You? (by the way, her mother hates the title) because I found an autographed copy. And while I thought Fahmy would focus more on her religious relationship, the story […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Religion, Romance Tagged With: coming-of-age, Dearborn, family, friendship, Huda Fahmy, identity, Michigan, Muslim, Muslim girls, perceptions, school, siblings

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:63 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Religion, Romance · Tags: coming-of-age, Dearborn, family, friendship, Huda Fahmy, identity, Michigan, Muslim, Muslim girls, perceptions, school, siblings ·
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Over the River, Into the Woods…

The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne

August 26, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read this as part of CBR14Bingo: adapt. This book was adapted into a movie that will be released later this year. It also features a character who has to adapt to a new situation after living in captivity the first part of her life.  Books about the outdoors and/or survivalism are not my thing. Neither are complicated family dramas where abuse has to be parsed and unpacked. Yet this one really worked for me and became one of my favorite crime novels of the year, even […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: abuse, cbr14bingo, Karen Dionne, Michigan, survivalism, The Marsh King's Daughter, thriller

Jake's CBR14 Review No:150 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: abuse, cbr14bingo, Karen Dionne, Michigan, survivalism, The Marsh King's Daughter, thriller ·
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Library Bingo

The Dark Tunnel by Ross Macdonald

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Billy Summers by Stephen King

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly

August 9, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I haven’t been able to keep up with the Cannonball Read Bingo, but I have been reading stuff for my library’s bingo, which helps because it encourages me to try things I’d either put off or left on my shelf to rot…   The Dark Tunnel ** Went back to the beginning with Ross Macdonald for this one. I love Ross’ Archer series and his standalones aren’t bad but this one is. Unfocused plotting, expository dialogue, characters conveniently bouncing in and out. Macdonald was trying […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: A Darkness More Than Night, Billy Summers, espionage, harry bosch, horror, Michael Connelly, Michigan, mystery, New York City, Race, Ross MacDonald, Simone St. James, Stephen King, Terry McCaleb, the broken girls, The Dark Tunnel, The Other Black Girl, thriller, Vermont, Zakiya Dalila Harris

Jake's CBR13 Review No:125 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: A Darkness More Than Night, Billy Summers, espionage, harry bosch, horror, Michael Connelly, Michigan, mystery, New York City, Race, Ross MacDonald, Simone St. James, Stephen King, Terry McCaleb, the broken girls, The Dark Tunnel, The Other Black Girl, thriller, Vermont, Zakiya Dalila Harris ·
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Swampy

The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne

May 11, 2021 by Singsonggirl 2 Comments

I’m not the biggest reader of thrillers, but my mother bought this for herself at a train station once, it looked interesting, so I “borrowed” it. Helena Pelletier is a woman with a dark past, her mother was kidnapped by her father as a child and kept in a cabin somewhere deep in the Michigan Upper Peninsula’s marshes. For the first twelve years of Helena’s life, she has no contact to the outside world, only knows her controlling, sadistic father, her shellshocked mother and a […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: female-centric thrillers, Karen Dionne, kidnapping, Michigan

Singsonggirl's CBR13 Review No:10 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: female-centric thrillers, Karen Dionne, kidnapping, Michigan ·
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