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A surprisingly educational celebrity autobiography

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

March 4, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

In this very engaging autobiography, Trevor Noah opens up about growing up in South Africa, born from a black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss father at a time when this was literally a crime punishable with several years in prison. The Apartheid regime ended while Noah was still young, but his childhood was still deeply affected by the fact that he was a mixed race child in a society where the races were not supposed to mix at all, to the point where his mother had to walk behind her own child and a mixed race woman when they […]

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3/4/2019 | Malin's CBR11 Review No:6 |

Sink your chompers into this nutty tail Humorous Stories

I Lost My Tooth by Mo Willems

August 29, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Honestly, I had great hopes for this newest creation by Mo Willems (as I am a little nuts about squirrels). But I Lost My Tooth has too much in the way of shenanigans and not enough bite in the facts about the subject matter area. Granted there are some pieces of information too sink your chompers into about teeth and squirrels, but I would have liked to have seen more. Yet, I am assuming that for the age it is aimed at (The Elephant and Piggie crowd) this is probably enough for them. There are some very a-corny jokes that […]

8/29/2018 BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:326 |

“Comics to make you cry laughing and cry crying”

The Book of Onions by Jake Thompson

August 26, 2018 by NTE Leave a Comment

When I was a kid, my dad had a couple of volumes of collections of The Far Side Gallery comics, and I… well, to be honest, when I first read them I was much too young to understand more than one in thirty of them, but eventually, I loved them. I was so envious of Gary Larson, and his ability to both draw and be funny at the same time, that I spent a significant amount of time in middle school pretending that I also had both those talents. (I very much did not.) Fortunately for us, there are still some people […]

8/26/2018 NTE's CBR10 Review No:11 |

Find Yourself in Architecture and other places!

Brick: Who Found Herself in Architecture by Joshua David Stien

July 13, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While the story of Brick herself is a little odd in the way it is presented with its minimal colors (a few pages are almost “coloring book-like”) and the story told by Brick in her own voice (young, bit naïve and always curious) the showing of real architectural sites is a great touch. That hits the mark perfectly. Brick: Who Found Herself in Architecture by Joshua David Stien has this fun story of a young brick who wants to find their place in the world (will she be in a house, school, wall?) but cannot find the right fit. There […]

7/13/2018 BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:259 |

“That was, perhaps, the most unfeeling proposal she could imagine. The man was cynical, insensitive, condescending, rude. And she was definitely going to marry him.”

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

February 24, 2018 by NTE 3 Comments

Guys this book? Is so good. That I’m mad that the next book in the series doesn’t come out for months. (MONTHS! August is a lot of months away.) It’s full of trope-y delicious nonsense, and ridiculous people, and stuff you know could never happen in real life, but who cares? Duke, hideously scarred in The War, loses fiancé and proposes a Marriage of Convenience to the Uppity Seamstress who dared ask for the funds he owes her for creating the lost fiancé’s hideous wedding dress. (“It looks like unicorn vomit. Or some beast rumored to menace the Himalayas.”) And […]

2/24/2018 NTE's CBR10 Review No:2 |

A Young Man, a Castle & a Very Deep Hole

Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt

January 26, 2017 by Gracey the Giant 4 Comments

Let me first just say that I am very much a fan of Patrick DeWitt. His previous book, The Sisters Brothers, delighted me with its quirky weirdness. And Undermajordomo Minor does the same. It’s definitely quirky, definitely weird and, like The Sisters Brothers, quite funny. Especially if you have a sort of weird sense of humor. Undermajordomo Minor tells the story of Lucien (Lucy) Minor who leaves his home village of Bury because he doesn’t feel he has any reason to stay. His father has passed away, his mother has already rented out his room, and his girl was never his girl, […]

1/26/2017 Gracey the Giant's CBR9 Review No:3 |

Well, that was certainly different

Sex Criminals, vol 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky

December 31, 2015 by Malin Leave a Comment

What did I just read? This comic certainly is completely different from anything I’ve experienced before. So the first time Suzie masturbates and orgasms, it literally makes time freeze. She’s not sure if it’s like that for everyone and having no one to ask, and limited resources to figure things out, she’s a bit lost. Then she meets Jon at a party and is surprised to discover that it’s exactly the same for him. They’ve always believed themselves to be alone, and now, when they’ve found each other, they become a bit addicted to exploring the range of their “powers”. […]

12/31/2015 Malin's CBR7 Review No:154 |

A delightful little picture book

The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton

December 26, 2015 by Malin 2 Comments

Princess Pinecone wants to be a warrior and get cool trophies or weapons, but instead she tends to get big fuzzy sweaters. For her birthday this year, what she wants the more than anything is a horse. A big, brave, strong horse. A warrior horse, fit for the warrior princess that she is. Her parents really do try, but instead, she gets a pony. A little round, yellow pony who likes to eat pretty much everything and fart a lot. Princess Pinecone valiantly tries to train her pony and make it suitable for warfare. When the next big battle comes […]

12/26/2015 Malin's CBR7 Review No:150 |

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