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Married, mom of two, history PhD, feminist. I've been participating in Cannonball Read since CBR4. I love to read, and writing reviews keeps me from reading without thinking. I feel like I owe it to the authors who entertain me to savor their creations. It's like slowing down and enjoying a delicious meal instead of bolting your food. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: ElCicco's Quick Questions interview.)

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“That is the significant part of telling our own stories: by doing so, we demonstrate our cultural continuance.”

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Volumes 1-3 by Hope Nicholson, Elizabeth LaPensee, and Michael Sheyahshe, editors

July 30, 2021 by ElCicco 1 Comment

Cbr13bingo rep That quote in the title of these reviews comes from Michael Sheyahshe’s introduction to Moonshot: Volume 1 and it serves as a rallying cry for all three volumes. The Moonshot series, published in 2015, 2017 and 2019, is, as the title says, a collection of comics written and drawn by Indigenous writers and artists. These volumes were also published and distributed by Avani and Inhabit Education Books, which are Inuit owned. The reason for the volumes is pretty obvious — Indigenous people have […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: and Michael Sheyahshe, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Editors, ElCicco, Elizabeth LaPensee, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, Hope Nicholson, Hope Nicholson, Elizabeth LaPensee, and Michael Sheyahshe, editors, indigenous, Michael Sheyahshe, Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: and Michael Sheyahshe, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Editors, ElCicco, Elizabeth LaPensee, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, Hope Nicholson, Hope Nicholson, Elizabeth LaPensee, and Michael Sheyahshe, editors, indigenous, Michael Sheyahshe, Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection ·
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“Home was wherever she planted herself…”

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

July 22, 2021 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr13bingo Home The Warmth of Other Suns, a National Book Award Winner, is a riveting study of the “Great Migration,” i.e., the movement of millions of Black Americans from the South to urban centers in the North and West during the period from 1915 to 1970. Isabel Wilkerson interviewed some 1200 participants in this migration in addition to scouring news sources, government studies, literature and more to provide this detailed and profoundly moving portrait of the generations of Black Americans who transformed not only their […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, CBR13, cbr13bingo, ElCicco, Great Migration, isabel wilkerson, non fiction, the warmth of other suns

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:33 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, CBR13, cbr13bingo, ElCicco, Great Migration, isabel wilkerson, non fiction, the warmth of other suns ·
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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, White Whale

The Secret of the Old Clock: Nancy Drew Mystery #1 by Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson

July 14, 2021 by ElCicco 2 Comments

Cbr13bingo White Whale I somehow managed to make it into my 6th decade having never read a single Nancy Drew book. I have always been somewhat ashamed of this given how great an impact Nancy Drew novels have had on so many women. It’s even more shocking and shameful when I recall that growing up, there were dozens of the Nancy Drew novels in my bedroom closet!! My sister read them all, and I’m pretty sure my mom and aunts had read them when they […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Carolyn Keene, Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson, CBR13, cbr13bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Mildred Benson, Nancy Drew, The Secret of the Old Clock

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Carolyn Keene, Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson, CBR13, cbr13bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Mildred Benson, Nancy Drew, The Secret of the Old Clock ·
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This is US History 101 not CRT

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, 2nd edition by Ida B. Wells

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells

The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition by Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, F.L. Barnett

July 10, 2021 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

CBR13bingo Uncannon Ida B. Wells is one of the most important and influential civil rights crusaders in US history, and yet I never learned her name in school. Born into slavery, orphaned as a teen, she became a world-renowned journalist who devoted her life to fighting US lynching laws of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exposing the truth about the victims and perpetrators of these heinous acts. As she fought to educate the world about the plight of Blacks in the US, she […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, ElCicco, F.L. Barnett, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, Ida B. Wells, non fiction, The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, The Red Record

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:31 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, ElCicco, F.L. Barnett, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, Ida B. Wells, non fiction, The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, The Red Record ·
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You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life, the facts of life.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

July 1, 2021 by ElCicco 6 Comments

Cbr13bingo/People At some point in my teenaged years, I think I might have read Northanger Abbey. I know I went through an intense Austen phase after reading Pride and Prejudice, and that I had a collection of all Austen’s novels, but I certainly didn’t remember the particulars of this one upon re-reading it, which simply added to the delight in this encounter. Northanger Abbey was one of Austen’s earlier novels but it was not published until after her death. It’s a rom-com/coming of age story that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR13, cbr13bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR13, cbr13bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey ·
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Kind of a disappointment

The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks

June 26, 2021 by ElCicco 1 Comment

I love historical fiction and Geraldine Brooks has been one of my favorite writers in this genre. I have now officially read all of her novels. The Secret Chord (2015) is about one of the most famous men in history, King David. Very little factual information exists about him, and in this novel, Brooks imagines his rise to power and rule through the eyes of his advisor/seer, the prophet Natan. Natan has witnessed David’s ruthlessness firsthand, but he also senses David’s strong connection to the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: CBR13, ElCicco, Fiction, Geraldine Brooks, historical fiction, The Secret Chord

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: CBR13, ElCicco, Fiction, Geraldine Brooks, historical fiction, The Secret Chord ·
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