The card, square descriptions, and rules can be found here. Make sure I have the correct numbers for reviews! This should be current as of 12:00 pm eastern on Friday, September 18. The Players: auntadadoom - 3 reviews beereadsbooks - 13 reviews, 3 bingos BlackRaven – 25 reviews, card … [Read more]
Hope you are enjoying this year's Cannonball Read Book Bingo Reading Challenge. You can get complete information here. I am back with assistance for finding books to meet the bingo circle "Wheels". Wheels - leaving; traveling; transportation; immigration; vacation; assistive mobility devices; … [Read more]
Looking at the Sky: How Dr. Janusz Korczak Fought for Children's Rights by Amanda West Lewis and Abigail Rajunov
To me, it is always funny when you find a book and really all you can say is, “Wow.” This Wow can be “WOW! Greatest ever.” Or “Wow, really you wasted a tree on that?” Or even, “Well, wow. That’s an experience.” And Looking at the Sky: How Dr. Janusz Korczak Fought for Children's Rights by Amanda … [Read more]
Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer.
I enjoyed the graphic novel Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer. The story was fairly familiar, but at the time it would have been a newer story as I think coming of age and graphic novels were just finding their place in the genre of young adult. The way Beyer made … [Read more]
The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel by Maggie Stiefvater
The Dream Thieves: The Graphic Novel by Maggie Stiefvater
CBR18 Bingo: Bird and Steal Bird - Ronan has a pet raven named Chainsaw. Steal - Ronan and Kavinsky steal items from the dream world. The Raven Boys There were three boys in the doorway, backlit by the evening sun as Neeve had been so many weeks ago. Three sets of shoulders: one square, … [Read more]
A Cat Is a Cat in Any Life by Ema Tohyama
One thing I like about working in a bookstore is that there are always ways to get free books and/or books you wouldn’t purchase for yourself, therefore never read. And A Cat Is a Cat in Any Life by Ema Tohyama is one of those types of books. I got it for free and it wouldn’t have picked it up … [Read more]
The Discovery of Fireworks and Gunpowder: The Asian Hall of Fame by Oliver Chin and Philip Amara with Juan Calle
Perhaps it was the subject matter (I am not a huge gunpowder fan, though I am a bit of a fireworks enjoyer) or the fact that I have read read several titles by Oliver Chin and Philip Amara, that made this book, The Discovery of Fireworks and Gunpowder: The Asian Hall of Fame, feel a smidgen weaker … [Read more]
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Usually, the Read Harder Challenge tasks are broad, and it's up to you to decide how you want to fulfill them. But every so often they come up with a very narrow one that leaves me annoyed. This year, that task is #8 – a classic from the Zero to Well Read podcast (which is fair enough; they are … [Read more]
