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He will not kill me. He does not get to make me a statistic.

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

September 30, 2022 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

You cannot appease someone into loving or respecting you. ― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow I chose this book because I saw it reviewed on CBR14 and damn, did it look interesting. Feminist wrath? Yes, please. To sum it up, Wu Zetian is angry. Not just a little pissed, but vengeful and rightly so. In her world, humanity is in a centuries-long battle with the Hundans, an alien species which invaded their planet. The only way to keep the Hundans from overtaking the entire planet is to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: bodily autonomy, feminist, love triangle, mecha, Xiran Jay Zhao

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: bodily autonomy, feminist, love triangle, mecha, Xiran Jay Zhao ·
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Feral and Ferocious: Two Plays About Girls

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

Dance Nation by Clare Barron

June 10, 2022 by anana 1 Comment

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe In the not-so-distant past, I performed frequently in small professional theatre productions. I’m a slightly-less-than 5’ tall woman, so I was often cast as teen and early-twenties characters, and I always had an eye out for plays that I could potentially pull monologues from for auditions. When The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, a play about a high school girls’ indoor soccer team, started making waves and eventually was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer, it seemed like it could be […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: clare barron, feminist, Play, Sarah DeLappe, Theatre

anana's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: clare barron, feminist, Play, Sarah DeLappe, Theatre ·
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Weirdos, teenagers, degenerates, and women

Ship It by Britta Lundin

March 23, 2022 by carmelpie 2 Comments

“Real writing” is done by serious people, whereas fanfiction is written by weirdos, teenagers, degenerates, and women.” This is a comics convention. When did this industry start caring about what fourteen-year-old girls like? Have you ever found a book that feels as if it was written just for you? From the first two chapters, I was in love with this book. Small town girl – Check. Self-identified outcast – Check. Obsessed over a band or a show or a movie to the point of writing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bisexual character, Britta Lundin, fanfiction, feminist, gay romance, lesbian romance, representation matters, television

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bisexual character, Britta Lundin, fanfiction, feminist, gay romance, lesbian romance, representation matters, television ·
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Brunette w/Sword outstretched, surrounded by the points of other swords

“We are the ones who ensure history exists to be written.”

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

March 12, 2022 by NTE 7 Comments

Have you ever heard the saying (not the Groucho Marx version, but the earnest one) about becoming a member of a club you don’t want to be a member of? It might just be pretty common in the circles I’ve run in, because I’ve mostly heard people talk about it in relation to loss – How you never want to become &/or welcome a new member to the parents of kids who’ve died club, or the widows’ club. Definitely clubs you do not want to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Ableism, cbr14, chronic illness, disability lit, feminist, feminist fantasy, historical fantasy, Lillie Lainoff, Musketteers, One For All, pots, YA

NTE's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Ableism, cbr14, chronic illness, disability lit, feminist, feminist fantasy, historical fantasy, Lillie Lainoff, Musketteers, One For All, pots, YA ·
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The cowboys are Librarians who work with more than books

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

January 4, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Upright Women Wanted has a really interesting set-up: take your standard Western setting, and instead of cowboys, substitute a group of women called Librarians, whose supposed job is to delivery Approved Materials for reading and pick up the old or worn out materials for fixing up. Esther wants to join the Librarians to get away from her past and she stows away in a Librarian wagon. Obviously she gets caught and reaches a tentative agreement with the Head Librarian Bet about apprenticing. The novella follows […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Western Tagged With: coming-of-age, feminist, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, novella, Sarah Gailey, upright women wanted, western

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Western · Tags: coming-of-age, feminist, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, novella, Sarah Gailey, upright women wanted, western ·
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“The fact that they have families and parents . . . is why they shouldn’t do these things, not why we should forgive them.” #CBRBINGO – Uncannon

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

July 6, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

I have had terrible luck with lit-fic so far this year, so it’s nice that my streak is finally broken. This book was great. Depressing, but great. And I never would have picked it up on my own except that it qualified nicely for the novel in translation category (non-European) for the Read Harder Challenge, and it was short! And very well regarded. So thanks, Read Harder! Doing your job. Kim Jiyoung is a young mother living in Korea. She quit her job in marketing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, Cho Nam-Joo, feminism, feminist, kim jiyoung born 1982, Korean, korean literature, lit-fic, literary, narfna, read harder challenge 2021, Women's rights

narfna's CBR13 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, Cho Nam-Joo, feminism, feminist, kim jiyoung born 1982, Korean, korean literature, lit-fic, literary, narfna, read harder challenge 2021, Women's rights ·
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