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Based on the Icelandic tradition of Jólabóka-flóðið

The Christmas Book Flood by Emily Kilgore

December 8, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Christmas Book Flood by Emily Kilgore celebrates Jolabokaflod in a special way. This is a delightfully illustrated book, by Kitty Moss, about the joys of finding the right book as the right gift, and the family that you give it too. Then, while reading on Christmas eve with you hot chocolate (or chocolate bar), we see how the spirit of the season is among us. Based on the Icelandic tradition, we have a diverse family, their friends, and community waiting and getting ready for […]

A Remembrance of Things Past

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry

August 17, 2022 by Halbs 1 Comment

I have great affection for everything about this book: the Dairy Queen cover photo, the West Texas rumination, the author’s cherishing of books and words. What a delicious book. That DQ photo reminds me of the Dairy Queen I’d often stop at in Goldthwaite, Texas, at the intersection of Highway 183 and 16. I used to go there as a teenager when driving to college. Now I take my own kids there now when passing through. A DQ can be a cultural hub in a […]

If books aren’t for eating, why do they say, “Devour a good book?”

Books Aren’t for Eating by Carlie Sorosiak

July 26, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr14bingo Birds Level 2 (see the lady with the feathers and adorable birds around her. It’s my favorite image) Leopold is a goat who loves reading books (after learning not to eat them) and like any good bookstore owner, he knows the stock at his bookstore, able to find the perfect book for each person who enters. Of course, when another goat arrives, he eats the books and nothing Leopold does will stop him! Or is there a way to get the book to the […]

I think I’d like to be Flora’s aunt

Rosetown Summer by Cynthia Rylant

July 18, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr14bingo Font Level Two Cynthia Rylant is known for their cute, young stories. If you like having a Happily Ever After ending you will usually get it. And Rosetown Summer is no exception. This adorable novella is a book two (Rosetown was book one in the Rosetown Books) that can be read as a standalone. The joys of the familiar mix with the fear of the unknown and change, but as our main character travels along the road from fourth to fifth grades, she learns […]

Fighting the book

The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read by David Sundin

March 28, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When good words go bad you get this book. This book is called The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read by David Sundin. The nonsense is trying to be clever but falls flat. However, there will be a reader some place, somewhere, that will say that this is the most wonderful and fantastic book ever. This is not a book for everyone. It is a book for that one person who has an odd sense of what a good book is. While I […]

I have a secret I want to share

Nour’s Secret Library by Wafa’ Tarnowska

February 8, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Nour’s Secret Library is a book that is about the power of books, the power of one person, the power of a community and how we can learn from each other instead of fighting. The emotional and chaotic images by Vali Mintzi show the ugly of war but also the hope people can find when looking. Wafa’ Tarnowska took a true event (children of Syria finding books and making a hidden library for anyone who wished to partake of books of many languages and subjects, […]

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