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My Whackadoo brain found some cool reads

Murderbot Diaries V02 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Hilo Book 6: All the Pieces Fit by Judd Winick

This is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle

June 24, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

My mood this week and reading has been all over this week. I found three different genres to get me through it. Not only have I done a crap tone of picture books just for the quick read, I had to find humor, serious, and a mixture of the two. I finished Murderbot Diaries V02 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells. I prefer the first one but did like the ending where Murderbot makes an interesting realization about how they have always just waited and “cleaned […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: Aleshia Jensen, Bronwyn Haslam), Depression, family, friendship, gender, glbtq, Judd Winick, martha wells, Mirion Malle, robots, Sexual Assault, Social Themes, suicide

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:330 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: Aleshia Jensen, Bronwyn Haslam), Depression, family, friendship, gender, glbtq, Judd Winick, martha wells, Mirion Malle, robots, Sexual Assault, Social Themes, suicide ·
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One loud and proud baby

Bye Bye Binary by Eric Geron

May 25, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This book is exactly how you would expect. Bye Bye Binary is loud. It is bright. It is bold. It is in your face. Even the narrator is loud. No, I did not listen to this on audio. But there is a voice. I could hear the baby of the story yelling all the things they are talking about. When the “outside of the frame voice” asks, “Is it a boy or girl?” The answer is a loud, “What is it to you?!?” scream. “It […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: babies, binary / non binary, Charlene Chua, Eric Geron, gender, GLBT, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:244 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: babies, binary / non binary, Charlene Chua, Eric Geron, gender, GLBT, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance ·
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I’m Naked! I’m Naked! I’m Me!

Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown

June 11, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Fred Gets Dressed is a modern story about a child finding the outfit that fits that day’s expression.  As a wild, independent, and typical kid, Fred, runs around naked. Then decides to try an experiment with their parents clothing coming to an understanding what outfit works best. It is an obvious story, simple and sweet. The “middle ground” with the liking or not category would be: “I did not hate it but did not love it.” There will be several “OMG! Loooooved it!” (Said in […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: family, gender, glbtq, Peter Brown, self-esteem

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:174 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: family, gender, glbtq, Peter Brown, self-esteem ·
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queer city

wikipedia with a wink

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd

January 24, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 6 Comments

Peter Ackroyd loves London. He has written novels, histories, poetry, and biographies of the people, places, and things that make (or have made) London, well, London. He approaches history with curiosity, wonder, and with an almost obsessive eye for detail. He criticizes when criticism is needed, and he allows facts and stories to breath and speak on their own without editorializing. Queer City, his history of gay life in London from the original founders through the current citizens, reaches far back into the history of […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: audio, British history, European history, gender, historical accounts, lgtbqia, lgtbqia history, London, Peter Ackroyd, queer, queer history, Sexuality, Will Watt

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: audio, British history, European history, gender, historical accounts, lgtbqia, lgtbqia history, London, Peter Ackroyd, queer, queer history, Sexuality, Will Watt ·
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“Seriously, my friend’s daughter is constantly misgendered because she favours clothes with dinosaurs on. EVERYONE KNOWS ALL DINOSAURS WERE BOYS AND THAT’S WHY THEY’RE EXTINCT.”

The Gender Games by Juno Dawson

October 7, 2020 by narfna 4 Comments

Been sitting on this review for two months now, trying to land on a star rating, and how to articulate what I wanted to say. Ultimately, this is a good book that is part memoir and part feminist/social text about being transgender (with a focus on the UK), with some intersectional feminist ideas thrown in. It’s also written in a very colloquial, humorous style that is very much not the norm for these kinds of books. This is what threw me, because I couldn’t decide […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, British, gender, humor, juno dawson, LGBTQIA, non fiction, Sexuality, the gender games, transgender

narfna's CBR12 Review No:139 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, British, gender, humor, juno dawson, LGBTQIA, non fiction, Sexuality, the gender games, transgender ·
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Varied Love in Space

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

July 17, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Bingo Review 5: Cannonballer Says Still going totally out of order from the plan, and there is/was a written out plan, but this time it’s because of the timing of something coming into my local library. Anyways, I decided to request The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet because it had been an option for the June 2020 bookclub (also apparently in 2018) and some of the discussion comments made it sound interesting. It’s gotten somewhat mixed reviews by Cannonballers, but at least one […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Becky Chambers, cbr12bingo, gender, LGBTQ, Race relations, Romance, space opera, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:62 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Becky Chambers, cbr12bingo, gender, LGBTQ, Race relations, Romance, space opera, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet ·
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