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One curse, one family, a lifetime of growing up

Salt Magic by Hope Larson

April 30, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Salt Magic by Hope Larson and illustrated by  Rebecca Mock is an experience book. You read it, you have an experience. Mine is different from yours, and yours is different from the third guy’s reading. Things are if Alice in Wonderland met Wizard of Oz and something else…. I can’t put my finger on it. The artwork is the main character, though we are being told the story which is narrated, in text, by a young girl in the years right after World War I. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: 20th Century, action, coming-of-age, curses/blessings, family, farm life, Hope Larson, oklahoma, Rebecca Mock, siblings, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:183 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: 20th Century, action, coming-of-age, curses/blessings, family, farm life, Hope Larson, oklahoma, Rebecca Mock, siblings, Social Themes ·
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Queer people live and love in flyover states, too.

Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond

October 25, 2023 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

The lovely ariana_reads won a Q&A with author Susie Dumond in the Romance for Maui auction. I was invited to join, so I read her debut book, Queerly Beloved, and set my alarm for early Saturday morning. I enjoyed both the book and the Q&A. It was interesting to hear Dumond talk about why she fought to keep her story set in 2014-2015, and the importance of telling queer stories set in the flyover states. As much as I enjoyed the book, it was listening […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: marriage equality, oklahoma, queer community, Queerly Beloved, Susie Dumond

Emmalita's CBR15 Review No:95 · Genres: Romance · Tags: marriage equality, oklahoma, queer community, Queerly Beloved, Susie Dumond ·
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“His poor judgment is further evidenced by his continued denial of his obvious guilt.”

Midnight Son by James Dommek Jr.

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

October 12, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Midnight Son – 4 stars An upcoming native Alaskan actor, Teddy Kyle Smith, vanishes into the wilderness after his mother’s death and, attacking the first men who come across him, leaves them for dead. But when he is finally captured, he has a bizarre story to tell – that of encountering the Iñukuns, a mythic lost tribe. An Audible original, this audiobook is executed in an interesting documentary format, incorporating interviews and clips from police interrogations and court testimony alongside narration. The case is not […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Alaska, audiobook, crime, David Grann, James Dommek Jr., Native American, oklahoma, true crime, United States

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:78 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Alaska, audiobook, crime, David Grann, James Dommek Jr., Native American, oklahoma, true crime, United States ·
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Crime Spree

Skin Deep by Sung J. Woo

The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth and the Case of Two Missing Girls by Jax Miller

Later by Stephen King

March 14, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I binged a lot of crime fiction (with one non-fictional exception) as there was a lot of traffic on my already long commute this week, allowing me to synergize eyeball reading with audio. Plus I took off the weekend so I had some extra time… Skin Deep 3 stars So rare, entertaining and enjoyable to have a transracial adoptee as a protagonist. While author Sung J. Woo doesn’t lean too hard on Siobhan’s background, he weaves it in to make her a fully realized person. The […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: adoptees, adoptive fiction, Canada, harry bosch, Hell in the Heartland, horror, Inspector Gamache, Jax Miller, Korean-Americans, later, los angeles, Louise Penny, Michael Connelly, mystery, new york, oklahoma, serial killers, Skin Deep, Stephen King, Sung J. Woo, The Concrete Blonde, The Cruelest Month, true crime

Jake's CBR13 Review No:39 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense · Tags: adoptees, adoptive fiction, Canada, harry bosch, Hell in the Heartland, horror, Inspector Gamache, Jax Miller, Korean-Americans, later, los angeles, Louise Penny, Michael Connelly, mystery, new york, oklahoma, serial killers, Skin Deep, Stephen King, Sung J. Woo, The Concrete Blonde, The Cruelest Month, true crime ·
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Oedipus and Electra

Cropper's Cabin by Jim Thompson

March 6, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

The year of Jim Thompson continues with what is by far the best book of his I’ve read this calendar year. It may be a cut below his truly greatest works like Pop. 1280 and The Grifters but it’s really darn good. I once heard Jason Concepcion of The Ringer fame compliment Quentin Tarantino by saying that the director “democratizes pop culture.” In other words, he takes B-movie stuff like gangster films and martial arts tales and turns them into high art. Thompson can perhaps be thought of in […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Croppers Cabin, Jim Thompson, mystery, Noir, oklahoma

Jake's CBR12 Review No:39 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Croppers Cabin, Jim Thompson, mystery, Noir, oklahoma ·
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“Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.”

Wilma’s Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller by Doreen Rappaport

December 27, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Wilma’s Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller is more a rating of a 4.5 as I had wanted it to be a bit longer. But as it is a picture book, the length is perfect. It is a longer story to start with as many of Doreen Rappaport’s books are. This is a modern and positive look at one of the leaders in not only Women’s History but Native History as well. Mankiller’s life unfolds on the pages of the book. Linda Kukuk’s illustrations are […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: 20th Century, Cherokee Nation, Cultural &Ethnic & Regional, Doreen Rappaport, Linda Kukuk, Native American, oklahoma, Politics & Government, Social Activists, Wilma Mankiller

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:545 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: 20th Century, Cherokee Nation, Cultural &Ethnic & Regional, Doreen Rappaport, Linda Kukuk, Native American, oklahoma, Politics & Government, Social Activists, Wilma Mankiller ·
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