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“She looked down at her palms and understood – her being was implied, her potential thoughts and feelings coursing through her body, the names of everything she knew and those she didn’t yet, all in the perpetual existence in her fingertips.”

True Biz by Sara Nović

November 3, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a really interesting read, but the ending left me unsatisfied. This is probably a book that a majority of the US population could stand to read for the topic alone, but for me, the story arc left just a little to be desired. I don’t necessarily need a happy ending, but I do need that feeling of completion you get with a well-told story, and I was missing that here, even if the book leading up to the ending was very well done […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ASL, BASL, cochlear implants, Deaf culture, lit-fic, literary, narfna, Sara Nović, sign language, True Biz

narfna's CBR14 Review No:178 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ASL, BASL, cochlear implants, Deaf culture, lit-fic, literary, narfna, Sara Nović, sign language, True Biz ·
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Vacation Reading

All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka

The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos

Pickup At Union Station by Gary Reilly

February 22, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

I got some great reading done while I was on vacation this past week. No knockouts but a nice range of good-to-good-enough books. Didn’t have time or resources to catalogue each individually so I’ll do small reviews of every book here. All I Did Was Shoot My Man I continue to be pleasantly mystified by Walter Mosley’s Leonid McGill series. These books are so odd, so transgressive considering what else is out there. He clearly has a gift for this kind of writing. The plot […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: All I Did Was Shoot My Man, ASL, Asphalt Warrior, Gary Reilly, George Pelecanos, Kristen Lepionka, Leonid McGill, Neal Shusterman, New York City, Pickup At Union Station, Roxane Weary, scythe, The Last Place You Look, walter mosley, Young Adult Dystopia

Jake's CBR12 Review No:29 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: All I Did Was Shoot My Man, ASL, Asphalt Warrior, Gary Reilly, George Pelecanos, Kristen Lepionka, Leonid McGill, Neal Shusterman, New York City, Pickup At Union Station, Roxane Weary, scythe, The Last Place You Look, walter mosley, Young Adult Dystopia ·
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If there is a whale, there is a way

Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly

Heartbeat by Evan Turk.

February 25, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was a bit disappointed with the end of Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly. I would have liked Iris (our hero of this adventure) to have done something other than what she did at the end. While it was understandable the choice she made (as her options both had valid arguments), her choice was in line with the theme of going out on a limb, out of our comfort zone and trying something new. Kelly has written a well written and fairly non-preachy […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: ASL, deaf, Environment, Evan Turk, family, Lynne Kelly, Marine Life, whales

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:57 · Genres: Book Club, Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: ASL, deaf, Environment, Evan Turk, family, Lynne Kelly, Marine Life, whales ·
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We need books like this…..

You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino

September 11, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is my Underrepresented category. You know of a minority, it is here. There are two dads in the doctor’s office. Jilly’s aunts are gay, and one is black (with two children from her previous marriage that she “called the biggest mistake of her life”). Gino speaks about the injustices surrounding the shootings of young black people. There is a black and deaf child. Jilly’s baby sister is deaf. The author, Alex Gino is non-gender conforming. You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!  is Gino’s sophomore […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: African-American, Alex Gino, ASL, cbr10bingo, deaf, friendship, gender, hearing, hearing impaired, Prejudice & Racism, Social Themes, Special Needs, underrepresented

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:350 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: African-American, Alex Gino, ASL, cbr10bingo, deaf, friendship, gender, hearing, hearing impaired, Prejudice & Racism, Social Themes, Special Needs, underrepresented ·
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