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Put your SPF 5000 on and hit the beach

Vampire Vacation by Laura Lavoie

May 13, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Okay, I admit, Vampire Vacation is a little cheesy. But it is a fun and adorable cheesy! The idea of “trying something new” has been done before, but the twist is that this time Fang (a young, sassy vampire boy) wants his parents to try something new. Which is, not to take the same old family trip to Transylvania (even though the brochure promises it never gets old, Fang disagrees). Even with the several false starts in the attempts by Fang in Laura Lavoie’s picture […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: family, Laura Lavoie, Micah Player, situations, Social Themes, vacation, vampires

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:224 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: family, Laura Lavoie, Micah Player, situations, Social Themes, vacation, vampires ·
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rain, rain, go away

Summerwater by Sarah Moss

February 9, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Is there anyone who isn’t at least slightly maddened by days and days on rain? I’ve spent many summers working outdoors under mostly temporary cover. It’s been years, but I vividly remember the feeling of perpetually wet socks and bones that felt internally chilled. In the summer of 2008, when I was working as an adventure guide at a camp in the White Mountains, it rained 29 days in June and 30 days in July. We ran out of “rainy day” activities less than a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: audio, Britain, holiday park, morven christie, novella, sarah moss, scotland, summer vacation, vacation

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: audio, Britain, holiday park, morven christie, novella, sarah moss, scotland, summer vacation, vacation ·
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Surprisingly Serious Truths from a Seriously Silly Guy

Vacationland by John Hodgman

February 12, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

John Hodgman is many things: Daily Show correspondent, a “PC”, podcast guest and host, internet judge, former literary agent, and generally droll New England weirdo. He wrote several books prior to  Vacationland, and all of those books were collections of “facts”. I say “facts”, as that is what he might say as well: Hodgman (with the help of Jonathan Coulton) created three full books of completely made-up facts that he presented as being VERY true. They are a weird delight, and sometimes they are correct, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: Boston, brookline, Daily Show, family, growing up, humor, John Hodgman, john roderick, jonathan coulton, judge john hodgeman, maine, maximum fun network, New England, podcast, Show Business, summer, vacation, western mass, Yale

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: Boston, brookline, Daily Show, family, growing up, humor, John Hodgman, john roderick, jonathan coulton, judge john hodgeman, maine, maximum fun network, New England, podcast, Show Business, summer, vacation, western mass, Yale ·
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She fell in love with the islands first

The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum

March 17, 2019 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So I originally picked this book last year for CBR bingo.  I didn’t get around to it in time though, so I read it this year as my fifth book of the year. We start out with reporter Diana Marcum (the author, duh) kind of floating through life.  She’s not having fun or loving her life.  She’s not entirely happy in her career either. She somehow stumbles across a group of immigrants living in California.  They came from a set of islands in the Atlantic […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #wanderlust, Azores, vacation

kfishgirl's CBR11 Review No:5 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: #wanderlust, Azores, vacation ·
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  • narfna on We are women without a voice…We are women out of time and place, without even the language of the country we reside in.Everything I hear about this makes me want to read it more. I've heard the audio is great, that's probably the route I'll go.
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