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So Many Ideas and Questions about Year 2 at Riverdale Academy Day School

Class Act by Jerry Craft

September 30, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Class Act continues the story of the Riverdale Academy Day School gang, but emphasizes Drew’s experiences a bit more and it also starts to include other challenges of growing up, particularly physical and emotional/relationship maturity. It is now eight grade, so the group is in their second year together. In a lot of ways, there’s a lot more going on here in volume 2, both story and meaning-wise. In the previous volume that focuses on Jordan, Drew is a fellow student of color, but instead […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: cbrbookclub, Class Act, Comics, coming-of-age, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:80 · Genres: Book Club, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: cbrbookclub, Class Act, Comics, coming-of-age, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, YA ·
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Still just OK the second time around

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

September 11, 2021 by Dome'Loki 4 Comments

CBR 13 Bingo Square: Landscape Genuine question:  It seemed when Cannonball Book Club was announced The Bear and the Nightingale was presented as a reimagining of Rumpelstiltskin, as that was the fairytale linked to for reading the original.  I don’t see a comparison?  Is there something I’m missing?  Or was I incorrect in that the two were paired together in that way?  Would love to know how others interpret as this feels more like “Cinderella” crossed with “The Twelve Months”. For Cannonball Book Club, I had […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, CBR13, cbr13bingo, cbrbookclub, Dome'Loki, fairytale, Fiction, Katherine Arden

Dome'Loki's CBR13 Review No:33 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, CBR13, cbr13bingo, cbrbookclub, Dome'Loki, fairytale, Fiction, Katherine Arden ·
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