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“It’s like everyone else got instructions, but we didn’t.”

Tegan and Sara: Junior High by Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, and Tillie Walden

July 6, 2023 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR15Bingo: Bodies, Bodies (physically growing up, stressing about getting your period, wanting to differentiate yourself when you’re an identical twin — the first chapter is actually called “Teenage Bodies.”) I read this without ever having listened to any Tegan and Sara music and loved it, so this is clearly a winner. I am a huge Tillie Walden fan, which is why I picked this up in the first place, and I’m really glad I did. I think this book does a great job of being […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: cbr15bingo, family dynamics, female friendship, graphic memoir, Graphic Novel, identical twins, teenage angst, Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, and Tillie Walden

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:36 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: cbr15bingo, family dynamics, female friendship, graphic memoir, Graphic Novel, identical twins, teenage angst, Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, and Tillie Walden ·
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All in…

The Family by Naomi Krupitsky

April 8, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

This book has received a lot of comparisons to Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and the other works in that series. Let me clarify: I’ve tried to read Ferrante multiple times and just can’t land with her writing. I don’t know what it is. It’s got nothing to do with my months-long slump; I can’t connect with it. So I’ve heard a lot of people dismiss The Family because it’s a comparison that doesn’t measure up for them. If you’re a big Ferrante fan, you should know that going […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: All In, crime, family, female friendship, Naomi Krupitsky

Jake's CBR15 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: All In, crime, family, female friendship, Naomi Krupitsky ·
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A great friend digs the empty grave up with you

Hell Phone Book One by Benji Nate

January 9, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have read three of Benji Nate’s work and have three to go (one is due in May 2023, so just two current). And each one is more bizarre and kookier than the last. Yet, I keep reading. Maybe it is like a car wreck, you do not want to know, but you must know, too. You cannot look away. And Hell Phone Book One is no different. However, this time it does flow a bit more logically and has a base to it that […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: Benji Nate, Crime & Mystery, female friendship, missing persons, murder, Occult & Supernatural, Paranormal comics

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:26 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: Benji Nate, Crime & Mystery, female friendship, missing persons, murder, Occult & Supernatural, Paranormal comics ·
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A road trip with a difference

Becoming Dinah by Kit de Waal

February 13, 2022 by Dinah Lord Leave a Comment

Seventeen-year old Dinah has spent almost all her life on a religious commune somewhere in Northumberland (in northern England), being educated at home with the other children. Only recently has she gone to a ‘proper’ school, and her feelings of culture shock and confusion are convincingly drawn. When we first meet her, something awful has happened (which de Waal delays telling us about), and Dinah is taking advantage of her mother’s absence on a Women’s Retreat to reinvent herself as ‘Ishmael’, cutting off her long […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: female friendship, Kit de Waal, mixed-race protagonist, Moby Dick, queer protagonist, road trip

Dinah Lord's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: female friendship, Kit de Waal, mixed-race protagonist, Moby Dick, queer protagonist, road trip ·
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once again: great book, TERRIBLE cover

The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

January 18, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

The cover is even WORSE this time- not only do we have another DIY looking illustration,  but the featured pull quote from The Australian‘s John Freeman is ABYSMAL: “Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you’ll have some idea of how explosive these works are.” Fuck right off, guy. Emphasis on GUY. Just because Austen characters aren’t slapping and cussing each other out does not mean that they aren’t also filled with the contained rage of being a woman trapped in position- a woman who will do […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, casual violence, coming-of-age, Elena Ferrante, europa edition, female friendship, intergenerational trauma, Italy, L'amica geniale #2, Love, Marriage, Neapolitan Novels, post war europe, Series, the Neapolitan novels, translation

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, casual violence, coming-of-age, Elena Ferrante, europa edition, female friendship, intergenerational trauma, Italy, L'amica geniale #2, Love, Marriage, Neapolitan Novels, post war europe, Series, the Neapolitan novels, translation ·
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I Disliked This Enough To Not Even Come Up With A Pithy Title

Stars, Hide Your Fire by Kel McDonald and Jose Pimienta

January 9, 2022 by GentleRain 4 Comments

The best I can say here is that this is perfectly inoffensive teen fantasy. I didn’t hate it but neither will I remember much about it in a few months. It was fine as a palate cleanser book. This YA-aimed graphic novel follows Andrea and Darra, who are high school freshmen feeling trapped in their small town. Apparently that town is in Massachusetts, but I had to check the back of the book because nothing I read made me realize it was set there — […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #fantasy, angsty teen, Faerie, female friendship, Kel McDonald and Jose Pimienta, suburban fantasy

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #fantasy, angsty teen, Faerie, female friendship, Kel McDonald and Jose Pimienta, suburban fantasy ·
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