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She did a little singing

She Sang for India: How M. S. Subbulakshmi Uses Her Voice for Change by Suma Subramaniam

May 27, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Do you know who M. S. Subbulakshmi (Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi) was? She was a woman of India that broke gender barriers, had a powerful voice, and used it for justice and peace. Subbulakshmi was a young girl in India when girls had little options. A passion was signing, and she would sing whenever she could. And in She Sang for India: How M. S. Subbulakshmi Uses Her Voice for Change you see how she would use her singing to show her love of her homeland, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Asian - General, Biography & Autobiography, Cultural &Ethnic & Regional, India, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi, music, Peace, Shreya Gupta, Singers, Suma Subramaniam, women

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:254 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Asian - General, Biography & Autobiography, Cultural &Ethnic & Regional, India, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi, music, Peace, Shreya Gupta, Singers, Suma Subramaniam, women ·
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An entertaining and eye opening tour through Dave Grohl’s extraordinary life (so far)

The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

May 19, 2022 by TylerDFC 1 Comment

The new pseudo-autobiography, The Storyteller, from Foo Fighters frontman/Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl is not conventional. This makes sense since neither is its author. Rather than telling his life story in chronological order, the book is structured as a series of anecdotes that hit significant events mostly in the order they occurred. Whenever I am reading a biography I always dread the beginning chapters as the author goes into detail about their parents, family, and childhood. I tend to skim these parts because, for the most […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, autobiography, book review, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Kurt Cobain, music, musicians, Nirvana, scream, Them Crooked Vultures, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, autobiography, book review, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Kurt Cobain, music, musicians, Nirvana, scream, Them Crooked Vultures, TylerDFC ·
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I can’t do this book justice, so just read it and ignore my review

The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to Save Carnegie Hall by Megan Hoyt

May 13, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to Save Carnegie Hall by Megan Hoyt was not only a good story, but an exciting look at the history of this country, music, and Carnegie Hall itself. Long story short, when the area around the hall was being purchased up to be tore down to renovate and reinvite the city, one man stood up and said, “Hey! Not cool dude!” Okay, he was a bit more eloquent than that, but that was his […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Carnegie Hall, Isaac Stern, Katie Hickey., Megan Hoyt, music, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:226 · Genres: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Carnegie Hall, Isaac Stern, Katie Hickey., Megan Hoyt, music, Social Themes ·
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Sing or dig?

Song of the Court by Katy Farina

April 27, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Song of the Court by Katy Farina is a cute story about being true to yourself. It might be a bit sugary sweet for some (probably mostly adults and/or older readers), but for the ages six to eight crowd, and if the reader is more “girly” in their tastes, it is right up their alley. There are princesses, music, gardening, best friends, and a lot more. The illustrations are bold, but not necessarily to extreme. Farina makes them in an anime format, that has hints […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Fairy Tales, friendship, Katy Farina, music, princesses, violin

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:180 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Fairy Tales, friendship, Katy Farina, music, princesses, violin ·
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All Eyes Over Here

All Eyes on Ozzy! by K-Fai Steele

April 8, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Based on the cover, I did not have high hopes for All Eyes on Ozzy! by K-Fai Steele. My, “Hey you kid! Get off my lawn!” old lady brain did not think Steele’s illustrations were instilling too much confidence in my liking the book. And while it was not wrong in the fact that this is not my favorite book; I did end up thinking it was a solid book that kids can relate to and enjoy. And in the end, that is pretty important. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: K-Fai Steele, music, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:152 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: K-Fai Steele, music, Social Themes ·
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The Sixth Day is for Music

Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

April 7, 2022 by Pooja 2 Comments

Sofi has been training all her life to replace her father as Musik, but when beautiful, untrained Lara wins the role instead, she suspects  there may be illegal magic involved. A long while ago I read about the Polgár sisters, a trio of Hungarian chess prodigies who were very carefully reared by their father to eat, sleep, and breath chess. I found myself simultaneously fascinated and horrified at this single-minded cultivation of genius, because it sounded like a terrible thing to do to children, robbing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Adrienne Tooley, art, lgbt, music, Romance, sapphic, YA

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Adrienne Tooley, art, lgbt, music, Romance, sapphic, YA ·
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