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Eating some delicious bugs and solving a mystery

Booker the Library Bat Volume 1: The New Guard by Jess Brallier

October 10, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Booker is a library bat. This means, like the real bats of the Joanine Library in Portugal (which eat around 500 bugs per bat per night, keeping the books safe from book eating bugs) he protects the books in the library he lives in. On his first night as a guard, with three old-timers (my favorite is Rocco who uses gel in his fur but they are all adorable), he decides to check out the library to get the lay of the land. That night […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Bats, friendship, heroes, Jeff Harter, Jess Brallier, Jess M. Brallier, Joanine Library, Portugal

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:728 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Bats, friendship, heroes, Jeff Harter, Jess Brallier, Jess M. Brallier, Joanine Library, Portugal ·
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    on I don’t do torture
    I wish I had read this review before I bought this Audible book. I am just at the halfway point...
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    May I join you at that dinner party? This book is well worth reading.
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    What to be said regarding this book you said as I agree with you about this book.
  • Maximoff
    on “To be so ravenous with desperation that the only way out is complete and utter annihilation. A torpedo made of your own sharpened body.”- Senaa Ahmad (or me about wanting to quit this book)
    Also, I appreciate your Godzilla gif as it sums up the way I felt .
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