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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 […]

When Good is Evil and Evil even worse

The Subtle Knife The Graphic Novel by Philip Pullman

July 18, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr14bingo Snake Level two Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass is a dark read and The Subtle Knife is even darker. Therefore, when either is in a graphic novel format, you are not only reading the dark you are seeing the dark. In all its nasty glory. The theme of religion becomes more center stage, and the violence of all worlds comes to a bloody ending (and start and middle) in this adaptation by Stephane Melchior. The Subtle Knife is not an easy read, and the […]

I am getting E.A. Poe vibes here….

Forever Maps by Michael Lagace

July 15, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr14bingo Gaslight Level 2 Forever Maps could fit several of the categories, but I am picking Gaslight as this is a book started in the late 1770’s and ends “now” (or at the very least sometime after the late 1940’s), There are horses and carriages are sent to fetch people, with cars only show up at the end. There are traveling salesmen who go to trading post after western store, and a character who is a cruel, perhaps even evil, but truly sad, liar. Michael […]

Meesh is a GOOD demon!

Meesh the Bad Demon Volume One by Michelle Lam

July 15, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr14bingo #Monster #LevelTwoAt first, I thought Meesh the Bad Demon Volume One was going to be too sugary sweet for me. And I will not lie, it is terribly sweet, but not overly sweet. Okay, some people will think way too sweet, but I did not. I thought Meesh was a cute, fun, adorable little demon who puts herself whole heartily into what she loves. Which are fairies, princesses, flowers, and her grandmother. But you see, Meesh is a demon, and they are not supposed […]

HandsValues & Virtues

Soon, Your Hands by Jonathan Stutzman

July 14, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Three children and three different and diverse families are the focus of Soon, Your Hands by Jonathan Stutzman. The families are two dads and a son, a mother and father and daughter (who is hearing different), and a young boy with this mother and grandmother. We follow them (what seems to be one day) where one dad goes off to work, where the other stays home with their son to make a surprise birthday party. One father flies off (as a piolet) and the mother […]

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Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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