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Rambling around the internet; helping niblings maneuver through college, learn their ABC's and deal with middle school (usually all on the same day); reading to remain alive.

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“Comics to make you cry laughing and cry crying”

The Book of Onions by Jake Thompson

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When I was a kid, my dad had a couple of volumes of collections of The Far Side Gallery comics, and I… well, to be honest, when I first read them I was much too young to understand more than one in thirty of them, but eventually, I loved them.  I was so envious of Gary Larson, and his ability to both draw and be funny at the same time, that I spent a significant amount of time in middle school pretending that I also had both those talents.  (I very much did not.) Fortunately for us, there are still some people […]

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8/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

These were not quite the buff dudes I had pictured, but they definitely get the job done

Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes by Andrew Tsyaston

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Cannonball Bingo Spot – Cover Art.  I mean, could you pass this up?   Do you know about Owl Turd Comix? Because you should. It’s … uber relatable?     And hilarious?   And topical?   A little bit too on the nose on occasion? And other times, just 100% the plain honest truth. So this is a collection of some of the best Owl Turd strips, and I highly recommend you check it out, if you could use a laugh as much as I could, right about now.   *This is available for pre-order on Amazon.  My copy was given to […]

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8/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

“When you’re happy for yourself, it fills you. When you’re happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.”

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

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Throwback Thursday Bingo Square.   Goodreads tells me I first read Garden Spells in 2010.  (Or maybe that’s when I first signed up for Goodreads, who knows?) Either way, it was a while back.  But I’ve been in transition again (in two houses, in different rooms now in each house), so I’ve been moving a lot of my things, packing others up for storage and (painfully) whittling back my bookcases, for space reasons, and the “keeper book” criteria was as stringent as I could manage (which is to say, not exceptionally stringent.) Still, when I picked up Garden Spells in my sorting […]

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8/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

“But I made the mistake of trusting that the belief in myself would forever protect me.”

Spinning by Tillie Walden

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I love comics; I’m heartily devoted to the MCU (and, to somewhat a lesser degree, the DCEU); I am all about the fanfic that springs up around all of my favorite mainstream comic characters, but I have a confession: I don’t actually usually enjoy reading comic books all that much.  I don’t know what it is about the medium – I know I’m a text over pictures kinda gal, but I love so much of the art of comic books, that I don’t think that’s my main problem.  And I had thought it was the serial nature of comic books […]

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8/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

I underlined so many things in this book. In pen. Pink pen.

F*ck Feelings by Michael I Bennett MD & Sarah Bennett

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So I feel a lot of ways about this book, which is basically the opposite of the premise of the book, but what are you going to do? To begin with, I think the authors’ stated premise of the book is both valiant and worthwhile: “to turn your bullshit wish into a goal that can actually be achieved.” That sounds good, right?  Sounds… so much better than endlessly trying to figure out why a thing is happening, or how you can prevent bad things from happening in the first place (Tip: You can’t.).  As the authors’ say “Since negative feelings […]

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8/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

There are shades of grey, sure, but I don’t think this is one of them

A Hostile Operations Team Box Set Volume 1 by Lynn Raye Harris

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I kept putting off these reviews because I wanted to get more in-depth about an issue that kept popping up in them – around consent and authors drawing lines in the sand that they then continuously cross over – but my brain cannot manage to do those thoughts any more justice than what I’ve got here, so I’m just going to go with it at this point. This review is technically about three books, a set I grabbed for free off of Amazon a couple of months ago, all of which revolve around some guys in an elite military squad […]

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5/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

Can we BBorS another hero? Please?

Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Susie Tate

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I had some issues with this next book. And when I say “some issues”, I really mean, I just did not like the ‘hero’ of the book, at all, in any way, and the way the author set up the book, I’m not sure she actually wanted us to? At the end of it all, I wrote in my notes “I’m so mad because this COULD be a good book. The writer is very good. The feminism is not.” And, look: I acknowledge that not everyone is reading everything with a hypercritical feminist lens. Even I have some books where […]

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2/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

“That was, perhaps, the most unfeeling proposal she could imagine. The man was cynical, insensitive, condescending, rude. And she was definitely going to marry him.”

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

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Guys this book? Is so good. That I’m mad that the next book in the series doesn’t come out for months. (MONTHS! August is a lot of months away.) It’s full of trope-y delicious nonsense, and ridiculous people, and stuff you know could never happen in real life, but who cares? Duke, hideously scarred in The War, loses fiancé and proposes a Marriage of Convenience to the Uppity Seamstress who dared ask for the funds he owes her for creating the lost fiancé’s hideous wedding dress. (“It looks like unicorn vomit. Or some beast rumored to menace the Himalayas.”) And […]

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2/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |


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