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Just like Aunt Bea

Zora, the Story Keeper by Ebony Joy Wilkins

March 8, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I read a book. I thought about it so I could write a review. And then I wondered, is this something I can do justice to? I mean, there is nothing hard about Zora, the Story Keeper. It is a story about a girl, Zora, and her beloved Aunt Bea. And in the end, after their beautiful times together, where they told stories, and costumes are worn, Aunt Bea passes away, so it is also a book of grief and holding onto the stories Aunt […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History Tagged With: Bereavement, Dare Coulter, Death, Ebony Joy Wilkins, family, grief, Multigenerational, Social Themes, United States - African American & Black

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:157 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History · Tags: Bereavement, Dare Coulter, Death, Ebony Joy Wilkins, family, grief, Multigenerational, Social Themes, United States - African American & Black ·
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Messy, grief-filled story

The Minus-One Club by Kekla Magoon

February 20, 2023 by LB Leave a Comment

Oof, this book is messy and emotional. At it’s center The Minus-One Club is a story of grief and finding your way forward after the death of a loved one, but it is also a story of friendship and identity. Kermit just lost his sister after a drunk driver hit her car head-on, and now he has to go back to school and try getting back to “normal.” But he finds an anonymous note in his locker inviting him to a secret meeting, where other […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Biracial, bullying, emotional, gay, grief, Kekla Magoon, queer, Romance, suicide attempt (not mc), the minus-one club, Young Adult

LB's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Biracial, bullying, emotional, gay, grief, Kekla Magoon, queer, Romance, suicide attempt (not mc), the minus-one club, Young Adult ·
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A Heart That Hurts Is

A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

January 29, 2023 by Carriejay 4 Comments

Comedian and actor Rob Delaney moved from Los Angeles to London with his wife and family to write and star in the tv series Catastrophe. They settle in, but when their youngest child, who had been born in London, is a year old, he is diagnosed with a brain tumour. He dies aged two. The book relates, beautifully, the stages of Henry’s life. The initial culture clashes that come from being Americans in the UK; navigating the intricacies of the NHS for his birth; the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: grief, rob delaney

Carriejay's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: grief, rob delaney ·
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A Terribly Sad Book That Probably Shouldn’t Have Been Written at This Point in Time

Spare by Prince Harry

January 28, 2023 by GentleRain 2 Comments

Honestly, where to begin with this one considering the amount of ink already spilled about it and the endless interviews. I am coming at this from the point of view of someone most interested in pre-WWI royalty, and as someone who is interested in the generational reverberations of child abuse. I am not that invested in who is right in the current generational struggle or really in any of the individuals in this book, and I tried to approach my reading with a fairly open […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Celebrity Memoir, family drama, generational trauma, grief, Prince Harry, psychological abuse

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Celebrity Memoir, family drama, generational trauma, grief, Prince Harry, psychological abuse ·
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Bitter and sweet

Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir by Rick Louis

January 17, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport New Authors to me Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir is a bittersweet story of living with a child who has an incurable condition. It is spiritual, realistic, and surreal all at once. Sometimes the tone is a bit on the romantic side, but it is a forgivable offense as this is a love story to the child as much as a memoir of the fathers. I have never been a mother, though an aunt three times (plus various “adopted […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Bereavement, CBR15Passport, Death, family relationships, grief, Lara Antal, Parents of developmentally disabled children, Parents of terminally ill children, Rick Louis, Ronan Louis, Tay-Sachs disease

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:36 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Bereavement, CBR15Passport, Death, family relationships, grief, Lara Antal, Parents of developmentally disabled children, Parents of terminally ill children, Rick Louis, Ronan Louis, Tay-Sachs disease ·
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“What happens to all that leftover love?”

After you'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell

January 15, 2023 by Carriejay 4 Comments

After boarding a train from King’s Cross to Edinburgh on a whim to see her sisters, Alice Raikes makes an abrupt about turn and heads back home. Shortly after, she steps in front of a car. She’s taken to hospital, but she’s in a coma and it doesn’t look good. What did she see at that Scottish train station that made her leave so suddenly? Had she tried to commit suicide? Shifting points of view, from Alice’s present, to past, to her family’s thoughts and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: grief, Maggie O'Farrell

Carriejay's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: grief, Maggie O'Farrell ·
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