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Food, family and love

Chloe’s Lunar New Year. by Lily Lamotte

December 27, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was hungry when I read two recent picture books about food (and family). Did this influence my taste in the books? No, because when I am hungry, I tend not to like a book, but I did the two I read. The second book (the first was a tasty treat about dim sum) was Chloe’s Lunar New Year. Here we leave the hustle and bustle of a restaurant behind and Lily Lamotte takes us into the family home. Here, Chloe is excited for the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: celebration, Diversity & Multicultural, family, Holiday, Lily LaMotte, Michelle Lee, Non-Religious holiday, siblings, traditions, United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:639 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: celebration, Diversity & Multicultural, family, Holiday, Lily LaMotte, Michelle Lee, Non-Religious holiday, siblings, traditions, United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander ·
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A New York lit professor and a playboy European aristocrat fall in love in a romance with not one, but two Christmases

Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

November 7, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR14 Bingo: Holiday (a Christmas romance written by an author called Holiday – boom!) Maximillian “Max” von Hansburg, popularly known in the tabloids worldwide as “the Depraved Duke”, is in fact, merely a baron. He is the eldest son and heir to the Duke of Aquilla, however, and he doesn’t really mind his playboy reputation very much. While in New York to fulfill family obligations and meet a prospective bride that his parents might approve of, he decides to have some fun instead and contacts […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: A Princess for Christmas, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Contemporary Romance, Duke Actually, fictional Europe, Holiday, holidays, Jenny Holiday, Malin, new york, royalty

Malin's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: A Princess for Christmas, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Contemporary Romance, Duke Actually, fictional Europe, Holiday, holidays, Jenny Holiday, Malin, new york, royalty ·
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Men, Follow Your Dreams! Women, errr- just keep on keeping on

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

November 6, 2022 by Wanderlustful 1 Comment

I feel like The Alchemist was a ship that I missed when it first sailed many years ago- it was such a sensation that tabloids showed all sorts of famous people (Bill Clinton!) reading it and it was optioned for an (as yet unmade) film. So here I am, reading it only 30 years late. The Alchemist is a very slim novel, just over 150 generously spaced pages. It follows Santiago, a shepherd boy from Andalusia who follows his dream of finding treasure under the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Holiday, Paolo Coelho, paulo coelho, the alchemist

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Holiday, Paolo Coelho, paulo coelho, the alchemist ·
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I wish this one was better!

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

October 16, 2022 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I’m the sort of person who loves ridiculous holiday romcoms and wishes they contained more romantic content. A Merry Little Meet Cute should have been aces for me: a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star co-star she falls in love with. This has potential! The basic plot builds on that potential. We have Bee Hobbes, a successful career as a plus-size adult film star […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: A Merry Little Meet Cute, ARC, cbr14bingo, Holiday, holiday romance, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, queer romance

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:61 · Genres: Romance · Tags: A Merry Little Meet Cute, ARC, cbr14bingo, Holiday, holiday romance, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, queer romance ·
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The Runaway Jury

The Runaway Jury by John Grisham

July 23, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo 14 – Holiday This book was on the shelf on my AirBnb this past week when I really needed something, not very taxing, to read and my books were failing me. I read this on vacation so if I liked it more than I might otherwise, blame that. I picked this up, had no clue what it was going to be about, and loved every stupid second of it. The novel begins with a just expert consulting group group spying on a man […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Holiday, John Grisham

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:384 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Holiday, John Grisham ·
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If the Grinch meet Frosty the Snowman there would be Fox

Hello, Tree by Alistair Heim

July 15, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr14bingo Holiday Level 1 & 2 Ho Ho Ho! And big barrel of trouble!  Fox in this rhyming Christmas tail, um…tale is a modern-day Grinch. Only after his heart grew, but he is stealing… (No, really! It makes sense really, just read this picture book!) Hello, Tree by Alistair Heim is a holiday book through and through. It has holiday images on the cover, the story is a rhyming text about all the wonderful holiday things seen in the town. The text itself is terribly […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Alisa Coburn, Alistair Heim, animals, cbr14bingo, christmas, friendship, Holiday, Santa

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:380 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Alisa Coburn, Alistair Heim, animals, cbr14bingo, christmas, friendship, Holiday, Santa ·
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Recent Comments

  • Leedock on Because when women understand chemistry, they begin to understand how things work.Soooo much better!
  • narfna on We are women without a voice…We are women out of time and place, without even the language of the country we reside in.Everything I hear about this makes me want to read it more. I've heard the audio is great, that's probably the route I'll go.
  • narfna on Because when women understand chemistry, they begin to understand how things work.The author hates the cover, too! I, like you, judged the book by the cover and was wrong. The British one is much better. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61QJVdPaRWL.jpg...
  • narfna on Her grin was tiny but evil. Adorably evil, if that was a thing.TBRed!
  • Leedock on Maiden voyagesWelcome! A Marvellous Light worked better for me, but this was a good book. I'm looking forward to the last in the trilogy when, I...
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