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“Armageddon was a fire in the harbor, a box delivered on a cold day. It wasn’t one great tragedy, but ten million tiny ones, and everyone faced theirs alone.”

The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel by Katherine Arden

July 27, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

They are fighting their war in the last world, but we’re dying in this one. January 1918. Laura Iven, a revered field nurse, wounded when the Germans bombed the munitions depot her field hospital was next to, is discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Months later, back home in Halifax, Canada, Laura lives assisting three elderly mediums after the deaths of her parents. On the night that Pim Shaw, a young widow seeking to connect with her son, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror Tagged With: enemies to lovers, faustian bargains, Katherine Arden, Nova Scotia, nursing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the fiddler, World War I

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:97 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror · Tags: enemies to lovers, faustian bargains, Katherine Arden, Nova Scotia, nursing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the fiddler, World War I ·
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Folk art and an artist

A Tulip in Winter: A Story about Folk Artist Maud Lewis by Kathy Stinson

July 3, 2023 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

 cbr15bingo North America: Canada is in North America  Who is Maud Lewis? I had no idea until I found A Tulip in Winter: A Story about Folk Artist Maud Lewis. Kathy Stinson’s picture book (currently available) is a love story to a woman who overcame times of prejudices, and a debilitating  case of rheumatoid arthritis. As a young woman, her parents death and brother selling their home meant she had to move in with an aunt. But she was being treated as a child. Through a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Romance Tagged With: art, cbr15bingo, Diseases & Illnesses & Injuries, folk art, Kathy Stinson, Lauren Soloy, Maud Lewis, Nova Scotia, painting, women artists

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:443 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Romance · Tags: art, cbr15bingo, Diseases & Illnesses & Injuries, folk art, Kathy Stinson, Lauren Soloy, Maud Lewis, Nova Scotia, painting, women artists ·
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Water, water every where you look and everything to see

The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire

March 15, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I missed the morning meeting where my coworker mentioned the book The Underwater Welder as part of her book review, but the in the minutes she mentioned that Jeff Lemire’s book was one that she had reread as it was one of her favorite books. And though I only read the minutes, there was something about those few words, and the fact I know some of her reading style, her passion about books, that made me ask to borrow her copy. I put it aside […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Canada, family, Fathers and sons, Jeff Lemire, life changing events, Nova Scotia, Oil well drilling rigs, Underwater welding and cutting

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:116 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Canada, family, Fathers and sons, Jeff Lemire, life changing events, Nova Scotia, Oil well drilling rigs, Underwater welding and cutting ·
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