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a perfect blast of nostalgia from the paranormal past…until the last 30 pages blows it all up

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

May 25, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

A losing field hockey team is sweating themselves half to death. They are being pummeled by every other group on campus; a collection of high school teams from allover New England living the exciting existence of a pre-college summer program. They haul their broken bodies back to the dorms of the UNH campus, exhausted physically and spiritually. The goalie is DONE with this exhaustion. She wants, needs, and expects more for both herself and her beloved team. She, like many teen girls before and after, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: AAPI voices, Boston's North Shore, coming-of-age, Danvers, field hockey, girlhood, high school, high school sports, historical fiction, Massachusetts, paranormal, problematic, Quan Barry, salem, Salem Witch Trials, sports, superstition, the 1980s

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:48 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: AAPI voices, Boston's North Shore, coming-of-age, Danvers, field hockey, girlhood, high school, high school sports, historical fiction, Massachusetts, paranormal, problematic, Quan Barry, salem, Salem Witch Trials, sports, superstition, the 1980s ·
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Where there are women, there are witches

The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

August 16, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR12 BINGO: Repeat This is a repeat of the Book Club category, as my social distancing book club meets again in September. For this meeting of my book club, we decided to go a little heavier and read this historical fiction about the Salem witch trials. Author Kathleen Kent has a vested interest in the topic, as she is a tenth-generation descendant of Martha Carrier, one of the first women accused and tried as a witch in Salem in 1692. The Heretic’s Daughter looks a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr12, cbr12bingo, historical fiction, Kathleen Kent, KimMiE", Salem Witch Trials

KimMiE"'s CBR12 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr12, cbr12bingo, historical fiction, Kathleen Kent, KimMiE", Salem Witch Trials ·
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I will never find the perfect Salem Witch Trial book.

August 21, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

The search for the book about the Salem witch trials that only seems to exist in my head continues! I do not know if I will ever find a book about this subject that will give me what I’m looking for. I don’t know if one exists, or if it is even possible for one to exist. This book came the closest so far, but it didn’t make the cut in the end. Here is what I want: 1. A book that is informative without […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: history, marilynne k. roach, narfna, Salem Witch Trials, six women of salem

narfna's CBR8 Review No:112 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: history, marilynne k. roach, narfna, Salem Witch Trials, six women of salem ·
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I have seen Goody Proctor speaking with the Devil!

January 4, 2016 by expandingbookshelf 7 Comments

We’ve all heard of the Salem Witch Trials. In 1692, fourteen women, five men, and two dogs were convicted of witchcraft and put to death. Another man refused to confess and was crushed to death, probably within earshot of his wife, also imprisoned for witchcraft. In his classic “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller referred to this time as the “coming madness,” a warning to us of the chaos that can envelop a community when paranoia and persecution intersect. It started with the kids. Puritan children in […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: American History, history, Non-Fiction, Salem Witch Trials, Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem 1692

expandingbookshelf's CBR8 Review No:1 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: American History, history, Non-Fiction, Salem Witch Trials, Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem 1692 ·
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