Rachel Reads & Reviews

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Book Highlight: Notable Native People

This informative nonfiction book by Cherokee writer and creator, Adrienne Keene educates readers about 50 Native people, past and present who are helping to change the future by renewing and reclaiming their heritage and traditions. As stated in her introduction, she felt the need to write this book in order to reclaim the narrative that…

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April 2, 2022

Book/Author Highlight

#adriennekeene, #indigenous, #nonfiction, #notablenativepeople, #rachelreads&reviews, #tenspeedpress
Book Tie Ins

Now I’m not talking about the junior novelizations of movies and tv show episodes. I’m talking about books that seek to expand the universe and give side characters their time in the limelight like the dozens of Star Wars books. However, I never read or seen the full Star Wars trilogy so I don’t have…

rachelbeerwoman

April 1, 2022

Uncategorized

#gittydaneshvari, #lisiharrison, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #monsterhigh, #poppypublishing, #rachelreads&reviews, #tieins
Book Highlight: Dangerous Creatures

This spin off duology from Kim Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Beautiful Creatures quartet follows fan favorites, Wesley “Link” Lincoln and Ridley Duchaness. The adorkable wannabe rocker and the emotionally-stunted bad girl of the Duchaness clan. This is mainly Ridley’s story as you can tell from the beginning that she is fully aware of her Dark…

rachelbeerwoman

April 1, 2022

Book/Author Highlight

#dangerouscreatures, #dangerousdeception, #kimgarcia, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #margaretstohl, #rachelreads&reviews, #thecasterchronicles
Musical Books

What are your opinions on musical books? I have read quite a few last year and thoroughly enjoy not only getting to read the lyrics with its footnotes of inspiration and changed lines (while bopping to the soundtrack, of course) but I love getting a behind the scenes look from crafting the script, finding producers,…

rachelbeerwoman

March 31, 2022

Uncategorized

#musicalbooks, #rachelreads&reviews
Women’s History Month Books P8

Now for my final post for Women’s History Month. Woo woo, I can’t believe I got to 8! #NotYourPrincess by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale This book is chock-full of essays, paintings, essays, inteviews stories and other mediums from Native American and First Nation women all over North America. It seeks to repair some…

rachelbeerwoman

March 31, 2022

Book Suggestions

#7thgeneration, #amym.davis, #annickpress, #annmccallumstaats, #betsygomez, #bloomsbury, #chicagoreviewpress, #dangerousbooksforgirls, #disney, #erikaowen, #frontiergrit, #georgesullivan, #girlhood, #goodgirlsandwickedwitches, #imagecomics, #imaginingourselves, #inlineoffire, #lawbreakingladies, #lisacharleyboy, #littlebrownandcompany, #malalayousafzai, #mariannemonson, #marybethleatherdale, #masumaahuja, #mayarodale, #nativewomenchangingtheirworlds, #newworldlibrary, #nonfiction, #notyourprincess, #patriciacutright, #paulagoldman, #rachelreads&reviews, #scholastic, #shadowmountainpublishing, #shechangedcomics, #simon&schuster, #thrillseekers, #wearedisplaced, #womenshistorymonth
Book Highlight: My Most Excellent Year

I put this book under book highlights because I am so biasedly incapable of doing an objective review of this. This book by Steve Kluger is just wholesomely wonderful. Not in the sacherrine way but in a this is how life and people should be. Characters are everything to me when I read, and I…

rachelbeerwoman

March 30, 2022

Book/Author Highlight

#feelgood, #mymostexcellentyear, #penguinrandomhouse, #realisticfiction, #stevekluger, #YA
Dionysos: The New God Review

Hey, it’s my birthday and I got the final book of George O’Connor’s The Olympians series as a gift. And is Dionysos a fitting conclusion to this 10+ year series? You bet it is. For those who don’t know, The Olympians is a comic series tackling each god in the Greek pantheon, depicting their fantastical…

rachelbeerwoman

March 30, 2022

Reviews

#comic, #dionysosthenewgod, #firstsecondbooks, #georgeo'connor, #graphicnovel, #rachelreads&reviews, #theolympians
Book Highlight: DC Comic Bombshells

Okay so if you are a DC fan and badass women fan, you must read Marguerite Bennet’s amazing series, DC Comic Bombshells! It has badassery, it has feminism, it has women fighting nazis, it has women fighting bigots, it has women fighting in WWII, it has Eleanor Roosevelt as President! Really what could be a…

rachelbeerwoman

March 29, 2022

Book/Author Highlight

#comic, #dccomicbombshells, #dccomics, #graphicnovel, #margueritebennet, #rachelreads&reviews
Curse of the Blue Tattoo Review

Starting right after Jacky is taken off the deck of the Dolphin, she is sent to Boston’s Peabody Lawson’s School for Young Ladies. The proper place for a female, but not the proper place for Jacky. Even though she’s determined to become a proper lady for her dear midshipman, Jaimy, our favorite sailor is meant…

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March 29, 2022

Reviews

#bloodyjackadventure, #curseofthebluetattoo, #harcourtchildrensbooks, #historicalfiction, #lameyer, #pirateadventure, #rachelreads&reviews, #YA
Bobbie Faye’s Very (very, very, very) Bad Day Review

I found this in my search for my comedoc mysteries like Stephanie Plum. While funny, I found it to be more like a comedic action flick on steroids.

rachelbeerwoman

March 29, 2022

Reviews

#actioncomedy, #bobbiefayesveryveryveryverybadday, #comedymystery, #rachelreads&reviews, #st.martinspublishing, #tonimcgeecausey