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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Dan Da Dan vol. 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu

June 29, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I have seen Dan Da Dan manga all over social media/the internet, so when I saw volume 1 at the library I picked it up out of curiosity. The premise is interesting: two high school outsiders, one obsessed with aliens, the other believes in spirits, dare each other to prove the other person’s belief is invalid by sending each other to the most likely haunted/abduction sites in the area, per the web. Guess what happens next? One thing I hadn’t noticed initially was that there […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror Tagged With: Aliens, content warning, Dan Da Dan, high school, manga, speculative, Spirits, violence, Yukinobu Tatsu

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:32 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror · Tags: Aliens, content warning, Dan Da Dan, high school, manga, speculative, Spirits, violence, Yukinobu Tatsu ·
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damn whoever tries to burn you

The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace

January 12, 2024 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

One of the Read Harder tasks from 2023 was to read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author and another was to read a book by an author who was geographically close to you. Amanda Lovelace, author of The Princess Saves Herself in This One is both queer and lives in New Jersey so I had put her second book The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One on my to read for the year. And then 2023 just did not cooperate even […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Amanda Lovelace, content warning, poetry, queer author, read harder challenge, the witch doesn't burn in this one

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:2 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: Amanda Lovelace, content warning, poetry, queer author, read harder challenge, the witch doesn't burn in this one ·
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Books about fandom, one of my many kryptonites

Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

April 27, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Content warning: suicide (past), suicidal ideation Hmm I think I’m forever chasing books about fandom to find that mythical “character like myself” who will make me feel seen the way that others have felt seen by Spoiler Alert or Geekerella. And while I’m very glad that people are feeling seen by this book, I have to firmly shelve it under “High School, I’m Glad This Wasn’t My.” As I noted when I started reading this, I got very much more into Monstrous Sea than I did in the story of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: content warning, fandom, francesca zappia, suicidal ideation, suicide

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:70 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: content warning, fandom, francesca zappia, suicidal ideation, suicide ·
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Disaffected emotionally stunted (Indian-American) manchild??? SIGN ME UP!!1

Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

April 8, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Content warning: suicide Second Disclaimer: I am perhaps unduly harsh on books about the Indian-American experience. They are more likely to exasperate me. Not because I think that every book needs to perfectly express my experience–I loved Never Have I Ever, and my experience could not have been more disparate–but because they seem to barely skim the surface of the wealth of experience that I know the #ownvoices author must have. So they don’t come off as insightful to me, the way that Big Bang Theory‘s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: content warning, Sanjena Sathian, teen suicide

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:60 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: content warning, Sanjena Sathian, teen suicide ·
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