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Follow the Dragon Path home, but watch out for monster sized monsters

The Dragon Path by Ethan Young

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The Dragon Path is the old west, fantasy, science fiction, Chinese mythology coming together in a graphic novel of family, honor, and righting wrongs. This is a diesel punk novel that is if Avatar the Last Airbender, a wagon train of immigrant settlers, and Komodo dragons got together for a story. If you want adventure, humor, magic, and family in one spot, you probably want to read this. Ethan Young made a straightforward story: a family/clan is traveling back to their ancestral land. The action […]

A Special kind of lunch

Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi

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Lailah is in a new school in a new country. She misses her old friends, friends who were old enough last year to partake in the fasting of Ramadan. This year, she is deemed old enough by her mother, and wishes she could share her concerns and excitement with those friends. But here at the new school, she is shy and worried no one will understand the importance of this honor. She worries that people will make fun of her and feel sorry when she […]

Why does God let His children suffer?

Revival Season by Monica West

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CBR 13 BINGO: Rep (explanation in review) This book came to me because author Ann Patchett recommended it on Goodreads. Not sure that it was something that I would have picked up otherwise based on the title, cover and subject matter, but I’m glad I did. The Horton family’s entire life is subsumed by the father’s ministry and thriving congregation in Texas. Known for his power to heal, Reverend Horton leaves his church and takes his family on the road every summer for revival season. […]

A hilarious and cheeky take on who Jesus (Joshua) was growing up, before becoming the Messiah

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

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CBR13 Bingo Square: Pandemic – I highly recommend reading this during a pandemic, the laughs were needed! No disrespect to Christopher Moore but had I not procrastinated I would have seen Jenny Lawson in conversation with either Felicia Day or Neil Gaiman for her Broken (in the best possible way) promotion.  However, I’m grateful I did as this was my first event with Moore and he was highly entertaining!  Lawson shared that Lamb is her favorite book by him which instantly put it on my […]

Family

Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up in My Immigrant Family? by Marisabina Russo

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I had a small roller coaster ride of thoughts and feelings about the graphic memoir, Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up in My Immigrant Family? At first, I thought, “Sounds fun.” Then, “Huh, what’s going on?” And “This is slow reading.” With, “Oh, yeah digging this, getting meaty.” Along with several, “If this was fiction nobody would allow such a stereotype!” And finally, “Well that was a ride. And that afterwards was a good roundup.”   Our narrator, Cookie is “the lucky one” of her […]



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