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“Just because I’m a librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.”

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

March 8, 2024 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

I am delighted to get to write this review on International Women’s Day. It’s an amazing story about a woman, written by two other women and it’s SO FREAKIN’ GOOD. Go get this book! (Seriously. Go get it. I’m going to sell you on wanting to read it during the rest of my review, I promise, so you might as well “add to cart” now). This book is another great selection of the Schaumburg Library book club so SHOUT OUT to the public library for […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1910s, Black stories, historical fiction, JP Morgan, Marie Benedict, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, The Personal Librarian, Victoria Christopher Murray

cheerbrarian's CBR16 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1910s, Black stories, historical fiction, JP Morgan, Marie Benedict, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, The Personal Librarian, Victoria Christopher Murray ·
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Amazing Emotional Story

One Blood by Denene Millner

September 2, 2023 by LB Leave a Comment

Oof, this is a seriously intense and emotional story, but so compellingly told. Told through the experiences of three women – Grace, LoLo, and Rae – it chronicles the ties of family and motherhood as Black women and the ways intergenerational trauma ripples and impacts people moving forward. Grace is a teen when her mother is murdered by her boyfriend and her grandmother is taken away for claiming a white woman’s baby was white and not a product of an affair with a Black man […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Black mother, Black stories, Black women, Denene Millner, family, Fiction, generational story, intergenerational trauma, Literature, litfic, one blood

LB's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Black mother, Black stories, Black women, Denene Millner, family, Fiction, generational story, intergenerational trauma, Literature, litfic, one blood ·
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An emotional YA in verse

Forever is Now by Mariama J. Lockington

May 20, 2023 by LB Leave a Comment

This book is such an emotional ride and I found it near-impossible to put down. Sadie has been coping with her generalized anxiety for years, but after she watches cops unjustly attack a young Black woman, she is suddenly finding it impossible to walk down the front stairs because “what if what if what if.” As she works on coping and healing and adding new tools to her tool box, Sadie is also trying to use her platform and her voice to bring more attention […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult Tagged With: activism, agoraphobia, Anxiety, bisexual, Black stories, Mariama J. Lockington, novel-in-verse, queer lit, Realistic fiction, Social Justice

LB's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult · Tags: activism, agoraphobia, Anxiety, bisexual, Black stories, Mariama J. Lockington, novel-in-verse, queer lit, Realistic fiction, Social Justice ·
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