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It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What is the best book you read in March 2020 and why did you love it? It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF. We just want to share some great reading material. Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
April 2nd, 2020. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 14 comments |
A Pocketful of Crows by Joanne M. Harris
You’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but how could I resist the artwork of Joanne Harris’ 2017 novel A Pocketful of Crows? The black background, the gold embossing, the stylized crow… I immediately snatched it up.
It’s a story based heavily on the traditions and holidays of medieval England, with chapters divided into months and snippets of various ballads and proverbs added throughout, both of which help lay the foundation of the story.
April 2nd, 2020. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 3 | Joanne Harris | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Videos:
Kid-focused: Easy crafts for young kids. I liked the cotton swabs and the fork! Despite the name, it’s about 10 minutes long.
Kid-Friendly: The Cincinnati Zoo has a series of videos from 2017/21018 featuring Fiona the baby hippo. This is the first one. It’s 8.14 minutes long. It does show a hippo giving birth
Kid-Friendly: Here’s a 14-minute travel video on Iceland.
No foul language, but more fun for adults. From a fundraised for the late Jay Lake,
April 1st, 2020. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions by Henry Lien
A surprise for me last year was how much I enjoyed Henry Lien’s Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword. I would never have picked up that book if it hadn’t been nominated for the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction. It’s about a girl named Peasprout Chen who, along with her little brother Cricket, is sent from her rural province to her country’s capital city to attend an elite school for students who practice the art of wu liu,
April 1st, 2020. Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Henry Lien | Audio, Children | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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