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R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford

April 23, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I had hoped to like R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford a bit more than I did. Perhaps my desire to like it “a lot” made it impossible for the result to live up to my expectations. Yet in the end, I enjoyed reading this glimpse into Franklin’s world. It just will probably not be on my top ten of favorite picture books I read this year list. This book is simple, but not simplistic. We see the life and […]

Love what you do, how you do it, and the body you do it in

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor)

February 3, 2021 by zinka Leave a Comment

Woof. I have been reading a lot of really amazing critical work this year and a lot of it has been just for fun. Also, a lot of it makes me feel like my brain is exploding but in a way that feels really really good to me, and I think Adrienne Maree Brown would approve. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, by Adrienne Maree Brown, is a collection of essays, interviews, and other writing by Brown as well as a series of […]

“A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.”

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

January 28, 2021 by Blingle Bells 3 Comments

Last year, I fell off the CBR wagon when COVID shut down all of our libraries and I was unaccustomed to actually buying books. Then I may have forgotten to return the books I already had out and accrued a fine. So I started 2021 determined to complete a 52 book Cannonball but obliged to pay for books until I settled my library account. Without the luxury of picking ten books and being free to abandon anything that didn’t work out in the first chapter, […]

“There’s nothing quite like the futility of being seventeen in an election year.”

Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli/Aisha Saeed

December 27, 2020 by Malin 1 Comment

Official book description: YES Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state senate candidate—as long as he’s behind the scenes. When it comes to speaking to strangers (or, let’s face it, speaking at all to almost anyone), Jamie’s a choke artist. There’s no way he’d ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes…until he meets Maya. NO Maya Rehman’s having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is too busy to hang out, her summer trip is canceled, and now […]

Did Amy Schumer and I just become best friends?

The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

May 10, 2020 by randirock Leave a Comment

This was my second reading of The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I LOVE biographies, especially auto-biographies. I love feeling as if I am seeing behind-the-scenes. In her first of what I hope will be a long line of books, Schumer really delivers. Vulnerability is probably my favorite trait in a human being, and throughout her book, Schumer is unceasingly, endearingly vulnerable. Schumer also holds my second favorite trait – a wicked sense of humor – which pretty […]

“the potential of nothing is everything”

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

January 4, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 5 Comments

This book sat on my bedside table for six months. I looked at it every day, tucked it into my work bag on multiple occasions, and brought it with me on several trips but I was unable to open the cover. I was paralyzed by the guilt of being wrapped into the attention economy, and I did not feel like I was ready or able to give my meager time to “nothing” quite yet. I was wrong. I wish I had cracked it open the […]

narfna on Baby’s first tie-in Star Trek novel.I probably would have loved this if I'd read it when I was younger, like I did with all the original Star Wars EU books....
narfna on “Is your brother really such a surly bastard, they ask. Of course not; inside, he’s a teddy bear, say I . . . and then he opens his mouth.”I already love Matthias and we only spent like two pages with him.
llamareadsbooks on “Is your brother really such a surly bastard, they ask. Of course not; inside, he’s a teddy bear, say I . . . and then he opens his mouth.”Lucy Parker's books *are* such warm hugs, aren't they? I also can't wait for Pet's book!
llamareadsbooks on Baby’s first tie-in Star Trek novel.I read this when it came out, so I was quite the wee baby, and I remember loving the crap out of everything Peter David...
llamareadsbooks on Another delectable romance from Lucy ParkerI agree with you on the illustrated cover! It's a bit cutesy but for the most part really reflects the book, and I gobbled the...

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