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The Night Of

Prom Mom by Laura Lippman

August 27, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR15bingo: adulthood. The book focuses on people who are moving on to adulthood in the present day after something terrible happened to them in their respective pasts.  Laura Lippman’s been on a roll in the last decade with these standalone novels. This is another winner and while it might not be on the level of Sunburn or Dream Girl, it’s still quite good. Lippman is very good at writing about people who are perpetually bound together in certain ways, often by tragedy. Here in […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: adulthood, Baltimore, cbr15bingo, domestic suspense, Laura Lippman, Prom Mom, Towson

Jake's CBR15 Review No:113 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: adulthood, Baltimore, cbr15bingo, domestic suspense, Laura Lippman, Prom Mom, Towson ·
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CBR15 Bingo: Adulthood

Happy Place by Emily Henry

July 22, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars CBR15 Bingo: Adulthood 15-word review: Harriet and Wyn broke up months ago, but can’t tell their friends. Sexual tension follows. Official book description: Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: adulthood, CBR15, cbr15bingo, Contemporary Romance, Depression, Emily Henry, family, friendship, grief, Happy Place, Malin

Malin's CBR15 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: adulthood, CBR15, cbr15bingo, Contemporary Romance, Depression, Emily Henry, family, friendship, grief, Happy Place, Malin ·
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“something that combines the majesty of enya with the mystery of…enya”

Giant Days, Vol. 4 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar

Giant Days, Vol. 5 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar

Giant Days, Vol. 6 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar

June 14, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 3 Comments

A really fun thing about failing to write reviews in a timely manner means that I get to go back and re-experience the joys of comics in order to accurately recount my thoughts! Hooray! It’s harder when I procrastinate with novels, but digging back through volumes of comics is far from the worst way to kickstart a writing project! Unluckily? Luckily? I have nearly a dozen Giant Days to catch up on, so I can relive their adventures while I hunch over my keyboard on this […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: adulthood, Bad Macnhinery, college, dorm life, Eisner Award, festival, first loves, friendship, giant days, growing up, john allison, John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar, lgtbqia, life lessons, Max Sarin, music festival, scary go round, sequential art, sequential arts, university, Whitney Cogar

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:64 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: adulthood, Bad Macnhinery, college, dorm life, Eisner Award, festival, first loves, friendship, giant days, growing up, john allison, John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar, lgtbqia, life lessons, Max Sarin, music festival, scary go round, sequential art, sequential arts, university, Whitney Cogar ·
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“She was probably wearing real Chanel Vamp nail polish, not knockoff Revlon Vixen”

Justine by Forsyth Harmon

February 3, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 3 Comments

Ali is bored, lonely, and smitten. Justine is bold, aloof, and irresistible. The girls meet in a Long Island Stop & Shop in the summer of 1999. I’ve been quoting from this song a lot lately, but as John Darnielle said so perfectly in “Old College Try”: Things will shortly get completely out of hand There is something visceral about peeking back into the mind of a suburban tri-state-area teen. This book stuck with me like the frequently mentioned feeling of bare thighs sticking to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: adulthood, ARC, bad decisions, Forsyth Harmon, illustrated, summer vacation, tin house, tin house galley club

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: adulthood, ARC, bad decisions, Forsyth Harmon, illustrated, summer vacation, tin house, tin house galley club ·
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cbr12bingo – Repeat (and TWO Bingos!)

Luster by Raven Leilani

September 13, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Raven Leilani has exploded into the scene like the chestburster in Alien. Fully-formed, unapologetic, covered in blood, and completely in control while annihilating the guts of a mediocre man. Luster has been racking up well-deserved accolades, and I truly cannot wait to see what she does next- although I am relieved that this is her debut, and there isn’t a back catalog waiting to destroy me hiding just out of view. Not only is her work fantastic, but it also allows me to knock two “bingos” (Money, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: adulthood, Ariel Blake, art, bingo, black voices, cbr12bingo, debut novel, failure, family, generational trauma, New York City, open marriage, Racism, Raven Leilani, repeat square, sex, UnCannon

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:100 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: adulthood, Ariel Blake, art, bingo, black voices, cbr12bingo, debut novel, failure, family, generational trauma, New York City, open marriage, Racism, Raven Leilani, repeat square, sex, UnCannon ·
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“I look for something else I could do for work but feel unqualified for everything interesting and repulsed by everything else.”

The New Me by Halle Butler

April 12, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

This very moment was the correct time for me to charge through this nasty (a compliment!) little slice of life. There was a time, not too long ago, that the crippling desperation of Millie would have felt far too familiar. There is a lot of Hannah Horvath (Girls) in Millie, and I found Girls very hard to stomach when I too was young, squandering privilege, and living like a recluse outside of my seriously uninspiring job. “Everyone thinks deep in their hearts (at least when they’re young, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adulthood, black humor, Chicago, Depression, ennui, fast read, Halle Butler, rage, temp work, unreliable narrator

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adulthood, black humor, Chicago, Depression, ennui, fast read, Halle Butler, rage, temp work, unreliable narrator ·
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