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“A woman’s life is endless work and suffering.”

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

September 16, 2023 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR15 BINGO: Asia & Oceania, because it focuses on characters in Korea and Japan Pachinko is the saga of a Korean family that spans 79 years, beginning in Korea in 1910 and ending in Japan in 1989. Being a weighty tome covering five generations, it’s hard to summarize the plot, though the main story begins with Sunja, the only surviving child of a struggling Korean couple who run a boarding house in Busan, Korea. Sunja’s father, Hoonie, has a cleft palate and a crooked leg, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asian american author, Asian culture, CBR15, cbr15bingo, historical fiction, KimMiE", Min Jin Lee

KimMiE"'s CBR15 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asian american author, Asian culture, CBR15, cbr15bingo, historical fiction, KimMiE", Min Jin Lee ·
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Trigger warning. Also, spoilers.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

September 16, 2023 by ingres77 24 Comments

I don’t consider myself particularly well-read. I’ve never read Faulkner. Only read The Great Gatsby last year (or the year before, I don’t remember). I’ve read Hemingway once, and didn’t particularly like The Old Man and the Sea. I’ve never read Austen, or Waugh, or Virginia Woolf, or Pynchon, or countless other important literary figures. But I’ve long flirted with the idea of being comfortable with books enjoyed by well-educated people with posh British accents who casually insert French into everyday conversation. (For the record, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: Literature, Lolita, Trigger Warning, Vladimir Nabokov

ingres77's CBR15 Review No:19 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: Literature, Lolita, Trigger Warning, Vladimir Nabokov ·
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Gay-Lesbian Solidarity

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

September 16, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR 15 Bingo – Queer Lives: Both the main characters in this book are queer, and one of the major plot-lines concerns itself with what must change in society for them to live their lives openly. Hundreds of years after the time of Arthur Pendragon, his descendent Arthur Delacey is betrothed to Gwen, the princess of England. If only she wasn’t more interested in the only female knight in the realm; if only he wasn’t more interested in her brother… I picked up this book because […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, ARC, Arthurian, cbr15bingo, historical, Lex Croucher, lgbt, NetGalley, queer, Romance, YA

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:65 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, ARC, Arthurian, cbr15bingo, historical, Lex Croucher, lgbt, NetGalley, queer, Romance, YA ·
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Shana Tova, y’all!

Days of Awe: Anthology by Aviva Blakeman, E.S. Wilder

September 15, 2023 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

This cover! It’s gorgeous. I laughed because a good friend of mine has frequently used the anthology’s tagline to describe Jewish holidays to me, “They tried to kill us, we survived. Let’s eat!” As gorgeous as the cover is, the stories inside are fantastic. Aviva Blakeman and E.S. Wilder have put together a fantastic anthology. From the introduction to the end of the last story, Jewish authors have written stories that center Jewish resistance. The stories range from the time of the Spanish inquisition to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Religion, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Aviva Blakeman, Aviva Blakeman, E.S. Wilder, Days of Awe

Emmalita's CBR15 Review No:84 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Religion, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Aviva Blakeman, Aviva Blakeman, E.S. Wilder, Days of Awe ·
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Getting your Glim on

The Girl and the Glim by India Swift

September 15, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The new girl in school has a problem: only she can see the “light creature alien” in this graphic novel called, The Girl and the Glim (or the light creature who is an alien). And this is on top of the fact as if she wasn’t weird enough to start with! She is small for her age and the bullies find all the puns available for that. Not to mention her parents are “shrinks.” But sometimes a girl and her Glim have gotta do what […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery Tagged With: family, friendship, India Swift, Michael Doig, new school, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:661 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery · Tags: family, friendship, India Swift, Michael Doig, new school, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes ·
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And I thought my dad had some CRAZY recipes

Old Clothes for Dinner?! by Nathalie Alonso

September 15, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Magaly loves her grandmother (newly living with her family) from Cuba. She loves her grandmother’s Cuban dishes. She loves speaking Spanish with her grandmother. But when she asks her grandmother what is for dinner one day, she gets the answer of “ropa vieja.” Which she understands to mean (in her decent, but second language, Spanish) Old Clothes for Dinner?! And since she cannot find her favorite sweater, nor her brother his favorite striped shirt (loved and worn so much there are holes in them) well, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction Tagged With: Cuba, family, grandmothers, Multigenerational, Natalia Rojas Castro, Nathalie Alonso, United States - Hispanic & Latino

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:660 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction · Tags: Cuba, family, grandmothers, Multigenerational, Natalia Rojas Castro, Nathalie Alonso, United States - Hispanic & Latino ·
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