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Different tune, same story

Battle of the Bands by Eric Smith and Lauren Gibaldi

September 5, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

There’s a thing that happens when you totally crush out on someone. It’s like you can feel your heartbeat in every part of your body. There’s a euphoric kind of excitement mixed with sadness and terror. It’s hard to explain, but it happens in an instant and then just explodes and grows from there, consuming your every waking thought and sometimes your dreams. You can’t escape from it. It takes over and runs the controls that make you . . . you. Suddenly, you aren’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Ashley Poston, Ashley Woodfolk, brittany cavallaro, cbr15bingo, coming out, Eric Smith and Lauren Gibaldi, high school, high school band, high school shenanigans, Jasmine Warga, jay coles, Jeff Zentner, Jennifer Marie Thorne, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Justin Courtney Pierre, Katie Cotugno, musicians, pining, Preeti Chhibber, rock music, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Shaun David Hutchinson, teenage angst, teenage years

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Ashley Poston, Ashley Woodfolk, brittany cavallaro, cbr15bingo, coming out, Eric Smith and Lauren Gibaldi, high school, high school band, high school shenanigans, Jasmine Warga, jay coles, Jeff Zentner, Jennifer Marie Thorne, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Justin Courtney Pierre, Katie Cotugno, musicians, pining, Preeti Chhibber, rock music, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Shaun David Hutchinson, teenage angst, teenage years ·
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Edward Gorey was a Buffy fan – what more do you need to know?

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery

March 13, 2021 by Bothari43 11 Comments

LONG PERSONAL SIDEBAR (skip to review if you want to miss the high school stories): In high school, we were supposed to write papers about our favorite poets for senior English class. I had long been a fan of Edward Gorey. I memorized the Gashlycrumb Tinies one night when Dad took my brother and me to a science fiction club meeting. We stayed downstairs playing Super Nintendo while the grownups geeked out upstairs, and that evening’s host had a Gashlycrumb Tinies poster hanging in the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Edward Gorey, high school shenanigans, irascible geniuses (him not me), Mark Dery, more non-fiction!

Bothari43's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Edward Gorey, high school shenanigans, irascible geniuses (him not me), Mark Dery, more non-fiction! ·
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