social concepts – Cannonball Read 17

The not so innocent is found by the innocent

Mage and the Endless Unknown by SJ Miller

October 26, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have had Mage and the Endless Unknown saved in my online reader copies folder since probably 2022 or at least early 2023. I am not sure why it was still available, but it was. And SJ Miller’s graphic novel is about a typical innocent who goes into the world only to find out how cruel and evil the story is. And of course, Mage, marvels how beautiful things are, but soon realizes everything in it wants to destroy them. Things are big, bad, scary […]

Two books two reviews part two

I’m on It! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading) by Andrea Tsurumi

Guess What!? (an Unlimited Squirrels Book) by Mo Willems

August 25, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

What do you do when you have four books and are not sure you can do the 250-word reviews for them? Well, if you read the other two book review I did you know that you write about them in groups of two. This time we will start with the one I liked the least out of these two. However, I’m on It! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading) is not a book I disliked. Perhaps the repetition of the concept was a little grating after […]

Dealing with those pesky feelings

This Makes me Jealous by Courtney Carbone

September 12, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

On a five-minute break at work the other day, I looked at the received books that were to go to the children’s floor and the back cover of this book was facing me as well as oddly interesting. Turning it over I found This Makes me Jealous with a very upset young lady on the cover. What pray tell, Courtney Carbone (author of said book) is making our young friend so cross? What it is, is the new girl, Amy, at school. She comes in […]

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