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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

Not in my Wheelhouse. Or beach house for that matter

October 8, 2018 by octothorp 2 Comments

Second bingo entry for “Not in my wheelhouse,” which is a rough category for me as I really will read pretty much anything.  The best I could come up with is that I tend not to read books like this – I don’t want to call them women’s books because a) reductive, b) there’s tons of books by/for women that aren’t like this, and c) saying I don’t read books like this and then calling them women’s books smacks of “I’m not like other girls” […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr10bingo, Elin Hilderbrand, Not in My Wheelhouse

octothorp's CBR10 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr10bingo, Elin Hilderbrand, Not in My Wheelhouse ·
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And in this corner, wearing poisonous fangs…..

August 2, 2018 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

My special needs cousin loved the Who Would Win series. It was a tough read at the time, but it got a struggling student/child/reader to want books. (I gladly gave him what books he did not have for a Christmas gift, because, YAY! Books!) I picked up Komodo Dragon vs. King Cobra and wondered what took me so long to find them? (But I think the author picked the wrong winner!)   Who Would Win puts two animals together that would not seem like they […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr10bingo, Jerry Pallotta, King Cobras, Komodo Dragons, Not in My Wheelhouse, Reptiles & Amphibians, Rob Bolster

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:292 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr10bingo, Jerry Pallotta, King Cobras, Komodo Dragons, Not in My Wheelhouse, Reptiles & Amphibians, Rob Bolster ·
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