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cover of Workhorse, a dark-haired girl with a red coat

“A friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend who bleeds is better”

Workhorse (2025) by Caroline Palmer

December 31, 2025 by drmllz 2 Comments

It’s been a weird year–a lot of work stress, some painful if not acute health stuff,  a lot of messy emotional knots, or perhaps unraveling, a lot of therapy, and reader’s block. But in the last days of the dying year, I did two things I have not done for a long time, one of which was stay up most of the night to finish a book. And that book was Caroline Palmer’s Workhorse, which I picked up in hardback on Christmas Eve because I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Caroline Palmer, cbr17, coming-of-age, drmllz, magazines, Media, new york

drmllz's CBR17 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Caroline Palmer, cbr17, coming-of-age, drmllz, magazines, Media, new york ·
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Final Reviews of the Year :)

Save Our Forest! by Nora Dasnes

Camp Prodigy by Caroline Palmer

Crush by Tegan Quin & Sara Quin (Words) and Tillie Walden (Art)

December 30, 2024 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

It’s probably fitting for me to wrap up the year with another middle grade graphic novel review roundup, considering how many comics I read this year. This was a good reading year for me overall, even with the gap during the summer for all the academic article/textbook I had to do. I think I was able to lean into reading for pleasure and having less stress about what specifically I was reading, and as a result I read a lot of things that I enjoyed […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Caroline Palmer, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ, middle grade, Nora Dåsnes, Tegan Quin & Sara Quin (Words) and Tillie Walden (Art)

GentleRain's CBR16 Review No:79 · Genres: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Caroline Palmer, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ, middle grade, Nora Dåsnes, Tegan Quin & Sara Quin (Words) and Tillie Walden (Art) ·
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Bowing down to pressure

Camp Prodigy by Caroline Palmer

March 6, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

What do you do when you’ve a two week vacation and you’re tired of playing games on your phone? You find the stack of books you have and start reading. And one of those books was Camp Prodigy by Caroline Palmer.   I’ll start with that it is a fun, modern coming of age story that deals with GLBTQ issues and the pressures we put on ourselves versus just “having fun” when we are doing things that we should/could enjoy.  I will then go on to […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Sports Tagged With: Anxiety, Caroline Palmer, friendship, Gender identity, glbtq, music, new experiences, Social Themes, summer camp

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:78 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Sports · Tags: Anxiety, Caroline Palmer, friendship, Gender identity, glbtq, music, new experiences, Social Themes, summer camp ·
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