naked mole rat – Cannonball Read 17

Hanging with my pals

Otis & Peanut by Naseem Hrab

A Bone for Bo: Painting with Georgia O’Keefe by Joan Waites

October 23, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Friendship is a fun concept. Who are friends? What are friends? And what can you do with friends? And there are all types of friendships, therefore all types of answers. And in Otis & Peanut by Naseem Hrab and A Bone for Bo: Painting with Georgia O’Keefe by Joan Waites, we find two different types of friends and two types of stories.(Both titles read via online reader copies.) Hrab’s story is about Otis & Peanut. In this first volume, there are short stories where we […]

When you’re awkward, even for a naked mole rat

Sweety by Andrea Zuill

April 8, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While the theme of Sweety (being yourself no matter how “odd” or “weird” you might seem to others) has been done before, this has a slightly different feeling to it. Andrea Zuill has made it slightly more modern in some ways, but also has kept a classic feeling as well. The classic aspect of the story is Sweety has a large, traditional family and how she and her family interact. The fact that Sweety asks if “being herself” while looking for friends could be seen […]

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