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“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”

Tomorow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

August 8, 2023 by cheerbrarian 4 Comments

CBR Bingo – Hold Steady I don’t know what I thought this book was going to be, but this novel exceeded all of my expectations. Someone who recommended it to me said she could have read 200 more pages and I agree. 300 even. 400! IT WAS SO GOOD. I wanted to follow the characters forever and ever. Weepy Warning – this book brought me to tears, to be clear, I was full-on sobbing to the point that my husband was concerned about me. This […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr15bingo, friendship, Gabrielle Zevin, Love, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Video game designers

cheerbrarian's CBR15 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr15bingo, friendship, Gabrielle Zevin, Love, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Video game designers ·
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The Real Gamer

Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming and Launched a Worldwide Obsession by Kate Hannigan

January 19, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport, Different genres (A non-fiction book/biography in picture book format not “novel”) My reading of Blips on a Screen: How Ralph Baer Invented TV Video Gaming and Launched a Worldwide Obsession made me realize that, well duh someone had to invent video games, but as a very much non-gamer (I mean, my Mario Cart went into the water! My friend I was with didn’t even realize you could do that) I had no idea who that person would be. Kate Hannigan’s picture book biograph of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: CBR15Passport, inventors, Kate Hannigan, Ralph H. Baer, Video game designers, Zachariah Ohora

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:49 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: CBR15Passport, inventors, Kate Hannigan, Ralph H. Baer, Video game designers, Zachariah Ohora ·
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