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Shine on, Sister

What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

December 20, 2025 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

What Does It Feel Like? is Sophie Kinsella’s swan song: her deeply personal reckoning with a terminal stage-4 glioblastoma diagnosis, which tragically took her life recently. I grew up inhaling the Shopaholic series – stories about a woman who believed the right blue silk scarf could change everything. On the surface, those books are light and effervescent, but beneath them runs a thread of genuine terror that anyone who has ever let a credit card spiral out of control will recognise. Kinsella wrote flawed but […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Sophie Kinsella

Caesar's Wife's CBR17 Review No:23 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Sophie Kinsella ·
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Ain’t Nobody’s Fool by Martha Ackmann

Ain't Nobody's Fool by Martha Ackmann

December 20, 2025 by Classic 2 Comments

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I have not read a biography of Dolly Parton before and of course have read about parts of her life here and there, but never in one sitting. I have to say that I thought overall this was well written, though in the end it felt like the book was rushing through things. Ain’t Nobody’s Fool walks the reader from Dolly Parton’s humble beginnings, how she eventually left her […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Ain't Nobody's Fool, Martha Ackmann

Classic's CBR17 Review No:175 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Ain't Nobody's Fool, Martha Ackmann ·
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It all changed with a Facebook friend request 

Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass by Cara Gormally

December 19, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Even after sitting on it, I am still not sure how I feel about Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass by Cara Gormally. I started and stopped when trying to write the review multiple times. I even started before I officially finished the book so I could try and think out what a piece of the writing evoked in me.  In the end, I am going to say that Everything is Fine is a personal read. You take from […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Cara Gormally, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Sexual Assault, Social Themes, welfare, women

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:561 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: Cara Gormally, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Sexual Assault, Social Themes, welfare, women ·
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Cover of Will Eisner a comics biography

An enjoyable puff piece

Will Eisner: a Comics Biography by Stephen Weiner and Dan Mazur

December 16, 2025 by vega-table Leave a Comment

Earlier this year when I finally read the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, a book about two fictional comic book legends, I realized I knew very little about Will Eisner, a very real comic legend. There were many times when I thought, is that thing in Kavalier and Clay about Will Eisner? I bet that’s an Eisner reference. I should know more about Will Eisner. So I found Will Eisner: a Comics Biography by Stephen Weiner and Dan Mazur. I had a few questions […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Stephen Weiner and Dan Mazur

vega-table's CBR17 Review No:50 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Stephen Weiner and Dan Mazur ·
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The climate be changing

Change Is in the Air: The Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist by Rebecca Donnelly and Mercè López

December 10, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

My review is: Just read Change Is in the Air: The Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist by Rebecca Donnelly and illustrator Mercè López, okay? Well, unless you get an online reader copy like I had, you do have to wait until mid-February to do so, but that still does not mean you need me to tell you all about the wonderful things about Eunice Newton Foote. Like how she, during a time when few people let alone women, had a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: ecosystmes, enviorment, Eunice Newton Foote, Merce Lopez, nature, Rebecca Donnelly, Rebecca Donnelly and Mercè López, science, Science & Technology, Scientists, women

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:557 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: ecosystmes, enviorment, Eunice Newton Foote, Merce Lopez, nature, Rebecca Donnelly, Rebecca Donnelly and Mercè López, science, Science & Technology, Scientists, women ·
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Losing Tom Hart’s heart

Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir by Tom Hart

December 10, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir by Tom Hart is an interesting look at grief. The author’s self-centered approach (meaning he is the center of the grief, how things around him come into his circle of emotions and trying to live) is both relatable and unique to his own experiences. Anyone who has lost a child (regardless of the age) can find parts of themselves. Seeing how weeks to a few months after the death of his almost two-year-old daughter came to shape him is touching […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult Tagged With: Cartoonists, Children, Death, family, fathers, grief, Tom Hart

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:549 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult · Tags: Cartoonists, Children, Death, family, fathers, grief, Tom Hart ·
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