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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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“One night. I just want one night of sleep”…”Is it that too much to to ask? One night where I don’t have to babysit or dig up a corpse?…”

The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson

June 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Part of my Simon and Schuster publisher online finds included The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson. A mouthful of a title that almost hides the plot of this young adult novel. The Past is a messy, quirky, simple and a modern teen novel. Even the unlikable characters can be likable. This is mostly since you can sympathize with what is going on, even if you have never been a reanimated, dead, best ex-friend. (Images are three of the […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: dating, Death, expectations, family, farting gas, friendship, glbtq, Shaun David Hutchinson, siblings, social issues

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:170 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: dating, Death, expectations, family, farting gas, friendship, glbtq, Shaun David Hutchinson, siblings, social issues ·
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Let’s Go

Letting Go of Gravity by Meg Leder

June 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Letting Go of Gravity is a book with a very teen romance without some of the usual teen romance (she barely kisses the love interest, but there is a spark between them), and a book that is also dealing with family and expectations that they place on us and that we place on ourselves. Not all characters are a 100% likable as they can be typical characters; sometimes even almost stereotypical, but they are not horrible people either. There are several obvious plot points and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Health, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: cancer, family, friendship, Meg Leder, siblings & twins, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:169 · Genres: Fiction, Health, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: cancer, family, friendship, Meg Leder, siblings & twins, Social Themes ·
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Break a leg

Roxy the Unisaurus Rex Presents: Oh NO! The Talent Show by Eva Chen

June 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

In the mix of my 130 emails (I know, so few for most, but for me, that is an unbelievable amount!) I have an email from a rep of the bookstore. They send out a list of new books coming from a website we use to order and/or look at titles on. And occasionally there is a snippet or two/a page or three, that gives you a hint of what is to happen. However, they also sometimes have links to download or in the case […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dinosaurs, Dragons & Unicorns & Mythical, Eva Chen, friendship, glbtq, Matthew Rivera, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Theme

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:168 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dinosaurs, Dragons & Unicorns & Mythical, Eva Chen, friendship, glbtq, Matthew Rivera, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Theme ·
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Trying to find a new read, I found this and a few things about me.

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

June 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I found out that Simon and Schuster can give you free eBooks! I can now get eBooks through a venue not NetGalley (as I have mentioned my woes with them before) even though I much prefer “the real deal” over online. I knew that most of these titles would not be at my library, and I would not want to own copies, therefore, this was a great way to read them. And when I saw the cover of Tash Hearts Tolstoy (a grumpy Tolstoy starring […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asexual, friendship, glbtq, K.E. Ormsbee, Kathryn Ormsbee, romantic asexual, Sexuality, siblings

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:167 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asexual, friendship, glbtq, K.E. Ormsbee, Kathryn Ormsbee, romantic asexual, Sexuality, siblings ·
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A controversial question with the answer of a good book

Jo Jo Makoons: The Use-to-Be Best Friend by Dawn Quigley

May 26, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

One of the most controversial questions you can ask about characters of a book is, “Why is your character X?” (Fill in the blank: gay, black, Muslim, etc.). But it is an important question. Why does you character have to be X? OR: Why do they have brown hair or green eyes? Why are they tall or short? Why are they male, female, or non-binary? Why are they an alien, a dog, a robot or a farting penguin? What does that piece of information do […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History Tagged With: Dawn Quigley, family, friendship, grandmother, Ojibwe, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes, Tara Auibert

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:149 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History · Tags: Dawn Quigley, family, friendship, grandmother, Ojibwe, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes, Tara Auibert ·
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