Ships – Cannonball Read 17

Taverns have ale flowing, wenches are wenching and pirates pirating.

Sea of Thieves by Jeremy Whitley

Sea of Thieves: Origins Volume One by Jeremy Whitley

Sea of Thieves: Origins: Champion of Souls by Jeremy Whitley

November 5, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I started with Sea of Thieves: Sea Dog’s Search illustrated by Rhoald Marcellius. Though it says it has issues one to three, it was actually after the no added title, Sea of Thieves. We meet our main pirate twins, their friends, frenemies and a possible lover or two or three…. Here we build up the story of all the characters we find in the second book (or the main ones) and we learn about a few creatures and events. However, you needed Sea of Thieves: […]

And you thought your job was soul sucking

Hunger's Bite by Taylor Robin

May 31, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I asked (texted) a friend the other day asking her, “Why do I find books almost a year before publication? Especially book one of a series?” She answered it was because I was in the early book business. Reader copies are machines to the future (publication of a book), but also they are the dynomite used to open the passages for the trains of reading in the first place. And if the found early book is a stinker, no problems. But when you find something […]

Sailing with a cat, dog, parrot, rat and some humans

Trim Sets Sail by Deborah Hopkinson

Trim Helps Out by Deborah Hopkinson

Trim Saves the Day. by Deborah Hopkinson

Trim Sails the Storm by Deborah Hopkinson

January 12, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

#CBR16SweetBooks Binge (four books same series/read back-to-back) Recently I accidentally found myself bingeing a series when I found (in my old) online reading links to copies of Trim Helps Out and Trim Sets Sail by Deborah Hopkinson (the author of way too many wonderful books to name here) and illustrated by Kristy Caldwell (illustrator of some delightful other books such as two I enjoyed, Away with Words: The Daring Story of Isabella Bird and Flowers for Sarajevo). Both of the new found titles are from October 2023, and I read them out of order (as […]

The Hero Played Fiddle

The Bravest Man in the World by Patricia Polacco

September 25, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Covers speak a lot about what might be in a book. I looked at the cover of The Bravest Man in the World by Patricia Polacco and thought, “I wonder if this is about a Jewish man in a concentration camp?” For some reason it had that feeling of how music can keep you free during great turmoil. But then saw the ship behind him, “Aaaah. A book about the Titanic.” (I still think a story of the Titanic fits that theme.) This book has […]

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