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Skeleton Bones and Goblin Groans  by Amy E. Sklansky and Karen Dismukes

January 21, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I enjoy poetry, but I prefer children’s poetry to adult poems (unless the poetry is a bit more straight forward and not too “fancy”). In Skeleton Bones and Goblin Groans  I figured it would be either overly spooky, or overly silly. Now, it never really got too spooky (but it does mention a vampire having a bite) but it is silly. For the most part it never gets overly silly, but it is silly. You read about skeletons, ghouls, and more. The rhyming and humor […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Amy E. Sklansky, Amy E. Sklansky and Karen Dismukes, Bats, celebrations, halloween, Karen Dismukes, skeletons, spiders

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:40 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Amy E. Sklansky, Amy E. Sklansky and Karen Dismukes, Bats, celebrations, halloween, Karen Dismukes, skeletons, spiders ·
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Last Square for the Blackout! Also, a great Halloween read.

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

September 21, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Last Bingo: Reader’s Choice to cover “Two Heads are Better than One” I’ve been seeing Gideon The Ninth hyped all over social media for months, and it sounded really cool and interesting. To cite the blurb across the front cover: “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!”  This is actually a largely accurate description of the premise: the immortal Emperor sends out a message to the nobles (ie- necromancers) of each of the 9 Houses in this universe to send their strongest necromancer-heir […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, gideon the ninth, murder mystery, necormancers, skeletons, tamsyn muir

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:74 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, gideon the ninth, murder mystery, necormancers, skeletons, tamsyn muir ·
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