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Family

Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up in My Immigrant Family? by Marisabina Russo

June 11, 2021 by BlackRaven 1 Comment

I had a small roller coaster ride of thoughts and feelings about the graphic memoir, Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up in My Immigrant Family? At first, I thought, “Sounds fun.” Then, “Huh, what’s going on?” And “This is slow reading.” With, “Oh, yeah digging this, getting meaty.” Along with several, “If this was fiction nobody would allow such a stereotype!” And finally, “Well that was a ride. And that afterwards was a good roundup.”   Our narrator, Cookie is “the lucky one” of her […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult Tagged With: family, fathers & daughters, first-generation American, friendship, Immigrants, Immigration, Judaism, Marisabina Russo, Mothers & Daughters, Religion, siblings

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:172 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: family, fathers & daughters, first-generation American, friendship, Immigrants, Immigration, Judaism, Marisabina Russo, Mothers & Daughters, Religion, siblings ·
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Dad was a fungi…

What Goes Up by Christine Hepperman

November 25, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

What Goes Up by Christine Hepperman is about the why and how a night that was one huge mistake came about. It is written in a prose poetry format. I will leave it up to you if you think the actions of the narrator fit the “crime” that started it all. (This is not a Mystery Book, but the narrator does treat the events that she learns of to justify her own actions as if “two wrongs make a right”). Our main character shows you […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult Tagged With: Christine Hepperman, coming-of-age, family, fathers & daughters

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:369 · Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult · Tags: Christine Hepperman, coming-of-age, family, fathers & daughters ·
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What the flying monkeys did I just read?

Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen

November 17, 2020 by BlackRaven 5 Comments

There no traditional action in Big Girl, Small Town. Yet, you are drawn into the book from page one. Michelle Gallen made me fall in love with a fictional character. She made me see myself in her. She made me want to root for this character who (on the surface) is not an overly likable person. Or at least, not at first. You watch as Majella (our heroine) live her life. Or what passes for living in a Northern Ireland town after “The Troubles” have […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History Tagged With: coming-of-age, family, fathers & daughters, grandmohters, Michelle Gallen, Mothers & Daughters, Northern Ireland, Protestants and Catholics, Small Town & Rural, The Troubles

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:362 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History · Tags: coming-of-age, family, fathers & daughters, grandmohters, Michelle Gallen, Mothers & Daughters, Northern Ireland, Protestants and Catholics, Small Town & Rural, The Troubles ·
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