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In a Hopeless Place

Woodworking by Emily St. James

August 8, 2025 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: citizen. One of the major subplots involves the characters in this book using their rights as citizens to rally around a longshot candidate they want to try and elect. There has never been an easy time for trans people. That wasn’t true in the 1990s. That wasn’t true before Trump I or Trump II. That’s not true today. Depending on where people live, there have been times that are less bad. But never a time that has been “good.” […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Citizen, Emily St. James, LGBTQIA, South Dakota, trans, woodworking

Jake's CBR17 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Citizen, Emily St. James, LGBTQIA, South Dakota, trans, woodworking ·
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She found dinosaurs in her backyard

A Dinosaur Named Ruth: How Ruth Mason Discovered Fossils in Her Own Backyard by Julia Lyon

June 7, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I do not know if I would call a dinosaur Ruth, but since Ruth Mason discovered so many of them, I guess one named Ruth is not so bad. And in A Dinosaur Named Ruth: How Ruth Mason Discovered Fossils in Her Own Backyard we see how she found so many goodies that would make up Ruth and many many more dinosaurs. It was 1905 and a girl named Ruth found strange rocks on her family’s land. Over the years, she keeps finding more, but […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alexandra Bye, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Fossils, Julia Lyon, Ranchers, Ruth Mason, Science & Nature, Science & Technology, South Dakota

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:273 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alexandra Bye, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Fossils, Julia Lyon, Ranchers, Ruth Mason, Science & Nature, Science & Technology, South Dakota ·
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