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Magical Mystery Ride

A Girl Called Echo Omnibus (Combined Volume) by Katherena Vermette

November 2, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A while back, I read the first volume in A Girl Called Echo series. And recently I was given a finished copy of the Omnibus. I like the word omnibus. I picture a large bus that has wings or something magical about it. And it carries a lot of things inside of it.  And that fits this story by Katherena Vermette as they created a story that has elements of the here and now, and time travel. Or a bit of magic. I have not […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Religion, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: 19th century, Canada, coming-of-age, Donovan Yaciuk, family, foster homes, indigenous people, Katherena Vermette, Metis, mothers, north america, Northwest Resistance Canada 1885, People & Places, Red River Valley, school, Scott B. Henderson, time travel

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:794 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Religion, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: 19th century, Canada, coming-of-age, Donovan Yaciuk, family, foster homes, indigenous people, Katherena Vermette, Metis, mothers, north america, Northwest Resistance Canada 1885, People & Places, Red River Valley, school, Scott B. Henderson, time travel ·
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CBR15 Bingo: North America

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

October 8, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR15 Bingo: North America I’ve been hearing about this book since it came out. So many people I know on the internet and whose opinions I trust have read, reviewed and absolutely loved it. So I feel bad only rating it four stars, but for all that that the story and the characters appealed to me, there was something that kept making me prioritise other things over listening more to the audio book, and I never really fully emotionally connected with this one. There are […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1980's, 1990's, 2000s, audio book, CBR15, cbr15bingo, Depression, Disability, friendship, Gabrielle Zevin, grief, historical fiction, Malin, north america, programming, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, video games

Malin's CBR15 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1980's, 1990's, 2000s, audio book, CBR15, cbr15bingo, Depression, Disability, friendship, Gabrielle Zevin, grief, historical fiction, Malin, north america, programming, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, video games ·
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A Deep and Dark Conspiracy

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

August 9, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI was utterly infuriating. I read it in anticipation of the movie that’s set to be released in a few months, and I knew it wasn’t going to be a terribly happy story. But I felt myself getting worked up about it none the less.  The Osage once possessed a territory that covered much of modern-day Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. But encroaching expansion from the US government lead to the Osage being mostly displaced […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR15 passport, cbr15bingo, David Grann, FBI, genre, killers of the flower moon, murder, Native American, north america, Osage Nation

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR15 passport, cbr15bingo, David Grann, FBI, genre, killers of the flower moon, murder, Native American, north america, Osage Nation ·
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Americana Sports

Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association by Terry Pluto

July 24, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR15Bingo: North America. The story of the American Basketball Association takes place exclusively in the United States and the organization has the word “American” in it. The other day, I was at a basketball team store when I saw a New York Nets hat for sale. I’ve tried really hard not to purchase clothes and hats these days but I just couldn’t help myself. It was beautiful, with the old school Nets logo. It represented everything good about the old American […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: 1970s, ABA, American Basketball Association, basketball, cbr15bingo, Julius Erving, NBA, north america, sports, Terry Pluto

Jake's CBR15 Review No:72 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: 1970s, ABA, American Basketball Association, basketball, cbr15bingo, Julius Erving, NBA, north america, sports, Terry Pluto ·
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Amerigo!? Heck no!

The Letters of America Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Amerigo Vespucci

July 3, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Library Book Bingos exist for two reasons: 1. clearing my shelves of books that would have otherwise sat there and 2. challenging myself to learn new things. I don’t really like the second purpose. I prefer to read what I want to read and that is that. But this summer, all of my local libraries are doing Ocean themed bingos (boring!). One of them required a biography of a seafaring explorer. I knew little about Amerigo Vespucci, the man from which the word “America” likely […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: america, Amerigo Vespucci, colonization, europe, explorer, north america, south america, Spain, The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci

Jake's CBR14 Review No:117 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: america, Amerigo Vespucci, colonization, europe, explorer, north america, south america, Spain, The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci ·
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The Americas Deserved Better Than Guns, Germs, and Steel

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

January 23, 2019 by allisonata 6 Comments

After watching John Leguizamo’s Netflix special Latin History for Morons, I felt a duty to learn more about the Hemisphere in which I live. I started with Mr. Leguizamo’s strongest recommendation: 1491, a 560-page tome with multiple appendices. The author isn’t a historian or archaeologist but a journalist who synthesizes all manner of information and makes it accessible.  The result is so compelling, so dense and riddled with shocks big and small that I suspended my usual speed-reading. Unexamined assumptions that I wasn’t even aware […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Anthropology, archaeology, cbr11, Charles C. Mann, Latin America, Native America, north america, south america

allisonata's CBR11 Review No:7 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Anthropology, archaeology, cbr11, Charles C. Mann, Latin America, Native America, north america, south america ·
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