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Sports are Fantastic Fun, and so are these books!

Sports are Fantastic Fun by Ole Könnecke

The Magic Tree House: Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne

Ancient Greece and the Olympics: A Nonfiction Companion to Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne

October 31, 2021 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Sports are Fantastic Fun Ole Könnecke No gonna lie, I just went to the juvenile nonfiction section of my library and found the sports section to find something for the Sports Ball Bingo square. I’m not all that into sports, and there were other squares that interested me more. But I found some interesting picks! Sports are Fantastic Fun reads like one of the videos from the 1950’s that they would have featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000. But it’s paired with fun, whimsical […]

This was the only book I was able to write a mini-review through my massive anxiety attack!

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

October 16, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Reader’s Choice/Sports Ball: because that’ll probably be my waterloo, otherwise! Will write a better review in a bit but just a quick one off–is this as good as A Memory Called Empire? Perhaps not, there is a bit of impenetrable language (DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE, FOR YOU, THREE SWEETGRASS) that seems difficult for the sake of being difficult BUT I just loved it so much, okay? I missed two buses because I was so wrapped up in this book, and for the second […]

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