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Stego Lily is a mom, educator, and sci-fi/fantasy enthusiast. When she isn't reading, she enjoys playing the piano, gardening, and chasing after her two chaos gremlins.

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“Kids do well when they can.”

The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene

October 10, 2025 by stegolily Leave a Comment

Cannonball Read Bingo: Family “Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they’re lacking the skills to not be challenging.” This book is geared toward parents of “explosive” children: the kids whose emotional outbursts and out-of-control behaviors are becoming exhausting and overwhelming to everyone in the house. Greene suggests that these problems are caused by “lagging skills” and “unsolved problems,” not by the kid’s desire to be difficult. He then lays out a model that helps parents guide their children in developing these lagging skills and understand […]

Filed Under: Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Ross W. Greene

stegolily's CBR17 Review No:29 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Ross W. Greene ·
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“Heroism is often the seemingly spontaneous result of a lifetime of preparation.”

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

September 10, 2025 by stegolily Leave a Comment

Bingo: I am counting this book for the “Green” square. Tress is a simple window washer who lives on a rock in the middle of an ocean of deadly spores. She is content baking culinary masterpieces, adding to her cup collection and spending time with her best friend Charlie. When Charlie is captured by the Sorceress across the Midnight Sea. In order to rescue the man she loves, Tress must leave her quiet life behind for one of adventure and peril. As she journeys across […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: brandon sanderson, cbr17bingo

stegolily's CBR17 Review No:29 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: brandon sanderson, cbr17bingo ·
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“I am proud to be part machine.”

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

September 7, 2025 by stegolily Leave a Comment

Cannonball Read Bingo: I am counting this book for the “N” square. Anwuli Okwudili is a young Nigerian woman who goes by AO, or “Autobionic Organism.” Due to an array of birth defects, followed by a freak car accident when she was a teenager, AO relies on cybernetic arms, legs, and organs to survive and function. But though she lives in a society where body augmentations are seen as unnatural, inhuman, and even sinful, AO is proud of who she is, both human and machine. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, cbrbingo17, Nnedi Okorafor

stegolily's CBR17 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, cbrbingo17, Nnedi Okorafor ·
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Because love isn’t just for the sane, undamaged people

Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

August 20, 2025 by stegolily Leave a Comment

Bingo: I am counting this for the “White” square in Cannonball Read bingo. I know there isn’t a lot of white on the cover, but technically there is some, and also I just really needed this square so that I could get my first bingo. So there. “If we limited loving to just the sane, undamaged people, the next generation would have about three people in it and presumably humanity would die out shortly afterward.” Stephen was once blessed by a god, protecting the innocent […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: cbr17bingo, t kingfisher

stegolily's CBR17 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance · Tags: cbr17bingo, t kingfisher ·
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Just a truly lovely piece of high fantasy

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip

August 20, 2025 by stegolily Leave a Comment

Bingo: I am counting this book for the “Borrow” square on my Bingo card, because I borrowed it from my local library via the Libby app. Sybel, a teenage wizard, has the ability to summon and control animals. She has inherited what is essentially a nature preserve for mythical beasts, where she spends her days caring for poetic boars, magical cats, and majestic dragons, and attempting to summon the legendary white bird known as the Liralen. She has no use for other humans, until one […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Patricia A. McKillip

stegolily's CBR17 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: cbr17bingo, Patricia A. McKillip ·
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“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people”

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

August 4, 2025 by stegolily 2 Comments

Bingo: I’m using this book for the “Arts” Bingo space, since the book centers on multiple characters who are artists and on the definition of art itself. I should really know better, at this point. I should know that if a book has Fredrik Backman’s name on the cover, it will break my heart. But I let myself be tricked by the cover art of carefree swimmers, and went into it expecting a light beach read. While the story did involve beaches, it was not […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Fredrik Backman

stegolily's CBR17 Review No:24 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Fredrik Backman ·
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