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A New Classic? Maybe. A New Fun Read? Yes!

August 16, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

White Whale! Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic is the result if The Invention of Hugo Cabret meet Steampunk with “something else” that I cannot put my finger on. Armand Baltazar has mixed fantasy, realism and adventure that surrounds our hero Diego and his friends. When different times (past present and a little of the future) have clashed together causing a brand-new world, the different factions fight over to create their own order in this not always safe world. However, when five kids from […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Armand Baltazar, cbr10bingo, fantasy, generations, time travel, values, white whale

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:311 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Armand Baltazar, cbr10bingo, fantasy, generations, time travel, values, white whale ·
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If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation

August 12, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR10Bingo – White Whale White Whale! I listened to the first disk of this walking around a new town I moved to about 6 years ago and I remember this event so well that the first two or three chapters of this book were incredibly familiar to me. I stopped listening because at 38 disks ripped off of a library copy of the audiobook, there was bound to be a few errors and there were. So this time, I went ahead and just read the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1Q84, cbr10bingo, haruki murakami, white whale

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:298 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1Q84, cbr10bingo, haruki murakami, white whale ·
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