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Racism is a very real thing, even in Norway

Kvit, norsk mann (White Norwegian man) by Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

January 18, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

Nowhere Bingo 2025: A poetry collection The author of this poetry collection was adopted from South Korea by a childless Norwegian couple when he was three years old. Throughout this rather short, but very impactful poetry collection, he writes about his constant feeling of exclusion and lack of belonging. As a child of Asian descent in a small western Norwegian village surrounded by white people, he obviously stood out among the other children. Adopted by farmers to take over their farm when they grew old, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Poetry Tagged With: adoption, alienation, Autobiographical, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, cbr17, contemporary fiction, Kvit norsk mann, Malin, Norwegian, Nynorsk, poetry, Racism

Malin's CBR17 Review No:4 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Poetry · Tags: adoption, alienation, Autobiographical, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, cbr17, contemporary fiction, Kvit norsk mann, Malin, Norwegian, Nynorsk, poetry, Racism ·
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They say this is the first lunar eclipse in ten years….

Alienation by Ines Estrada

Red Snow by Susumu Katsumata

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Our Cats are More Famous than Us by Yuko Ota; Ananth Hirsh

March 9, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is another of my posts of randomly selected graphic novels, comics, novellas, comic strip collections, and other books of that sort from the local library. Alienation – 3/5 Stars This graphic novel takes places in the future of the world in about 35 or so years. We are situated geographically in Alaska, overlooking oil and gas production lines, but we are situated thematically and emotionally in the mental and emotional state of a human woman living near the oil fields, and living her life […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alienation, Ines Estrada, our cats are more famous than us, red snow, Rivers Solomon, Susumu Katsumata, the deep, Yuko Ota; Ananth Hirsh

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:114 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: alienation, Ines Estrada, our cats are more famous than us, red snow, Rivers Solomon, Susumu Katsumata, the deep, Yuko Ota; Ananth Hirsh ·
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“I don’t believe anyone who is legitimately interesting can be popular as a teenager” Mel went on. “Or ever, maybe. Popularity rewards the uninteresting.”

September 3, 2017 by Malin 1 Comment

3.5 stars Elise Dembowski has always been painfully uncool at school, and spends an entire summer pretty much studying up on how to become popular, spending much of her savings in the process on a new wardrobe, without any success at all. Things may in fact have gotten even worse for her. In a moment of despair, she cuts herself pretty deeply, and while bleeding, calls a school mate, who naturally freaks out and has paramedics sent to Elise’s house. After this event, Elise’s divorced […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: alienation, cbr9, contemporary fiction, Depression, Leila Sales, Malin, music, This Song Will Save Your Life, Young Adult

Malin's CBR9 Review No:74 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: alienation, cbr9, contemporary fiction, Depression, Leila Sales, Malin, music, This Song Will Save Your Life, Young Adult ·
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On marriage, betrayal, independence and forgiveness

June 28, 2015 by Valyruh Leave a Comment

A Thousand Pardons is a sharp-edged yet surprisingly funny  view of mid-life crisis, complacency in marriage, teen-age angst, and the dramatic turns these can taken when least expected. A privileged family in suburban upstate New York suddenly discovers serious fault lines in their lives when Helen realizes that the man she married so many years ago no longer exists. Oh, Ben drives to his law practice every day, sleeps in her bed, and eats her food, but interaction with her or their adopted teenaged daughter […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alienation, forgiveness, Marriage, scandal

Valyruh's CBR7 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: alienation, forgiveness, Marriage, scandal ·
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The Golden Notebook: A Novel by Doris Lessing

February 14, 2014 by ElCicco 1 Comment

There is a part of me that feels brazen and shameless for daring to write reviews of literary classics. Who am I to judge Tolstoy’s War and Peace, for example (which I did for Cannonball Read 5)? The Golden Notebook is another such a book, but it is also one of those novels that I have wanted to read because it appears on so many “must read” lists, particularly among feminists. So I will boldly proceed with this review in the hope that I do […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: 1956, alienation, Communism, communist party, Doris Lessing, ElCicco, feminism, McCarthyism, Stalin, The Golden Notebook, Women's LIberation, WWII

ElCicco's CBR6 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: 1956, alienation, Communism, communist party, Doris Lessing, ElCicco, feminism, McCarthyism, Stalin, The Golden Notebook, Women's LIberation, WWII ·
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