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a perfect blast of nostalgia from the paranormal past…until the last 30 pages blows it all up

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

May 25, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

A losing field hockey team is sweating themselves half to death. They are being pummeled by every other group on campus; a collection of high school teams from allover New England living the exciting existence of a pre-college summer program. They haul their broken bodies back to the dorms of the UNH campus, exhausted physically and spiritually. The goalie is DONE with this exhaustion. She wants, needs, and expects more for both herself and her beloved team. She, like many teen girls before and after, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: AAPI voices, Boston's North Shore, coming-of-age, Danvers, field hockey, girlhood, high school, high school sports, historical fiction, Massachusetts, paranormal, problematic, Quan Barry, salem, Salem Witch Trials, sports, superstition, the 1980s

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:48 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: AAPI voices, Boston's North Shore, coming-of-age, Danvers, field hockey, girlhood, high school, high school sports, historical fiction, Massachusetts, paranormal, problematic, Quan Barry, salem, Salem Witch Trials, sports, superstition, the 1980s ·
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Our Gal Harley is at it again.

DC Super Hero Girls V05: Out of the Bottle Graphic Novel. by Shea Fontana

February 23, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was looking for something fun, light, and easy to read. And though I noticed awhile back that the last two times I took out books from the library I ended up in the ER, I decided to take a chance. I picked out five titles (with a sixth in case one was not available) and ended up with four. Good average and considering the one I am reading; I probably will not be getting through them all too soon. Therefore, I picked up first  […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: Agnes Garbowska, Batgirl, friendship, Harley Quinn, high school, Janice Chiang, Jeremy Lawson, Katana, Marcelo DiChiara, Media Tie-In, Mental Health, Mirka Andolfo, Monica Kubina, Ms. Moon, Shea Fontana, Silvana Brys, Social Themes, Supergirl, superheroes, Wonder Woman, Yancey Labat

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:97 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: Agnes Garbowska, Batgirl, friendship, Harley Quinn, high school, Janice Chiang, Jeremy Lawson, Katana, Marcelo DiChiara, Media Tie-In, Mental Health, Mirka Andolfo, Monica Kubina, Ms. Moon, Shea Fontana, Silvana Brys, Social Themes, Supergirl, superheroes, Wonder Woman, Yancey Labat ·
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Teenage girls are so powerful

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

January 27, 2021 by pineolliepple 1 Comment

In Quan Barry’s We Ride Upon Sticks, it’s 1989, and the middling Danvers High School Girls Varsity Field Hockey Team turns to witchcraft to help them make it to state finals (with the help of a possibly-haunted Emilio Estevez-covered notebook dubbed “Emilio” and the local lore of neighbouring Salem, Massachusetts). I just finished the book and I’m lying in bed awake with my heart feeling like it might burst out of my chest because – the absolutely nuclear power of teenage girls, man. Written in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 80s, Fiction, high school, Quan Barry, varsity sports, witchcraft

pineolliepple's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 80s, Fiction, high school, Quan Barry, varsity sports, witchcraft ·
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Komi Can Communicate, But Only Just Barely

Komi Can't Communicate, vol. 10 by Tomohito Oda

December 26, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So, Komi Can’t Communicate is one of those things that makes use of a lot of stereotypes and still mostly manages to be entertaining. It’s volume ten of the manga, and Komi actually gets to take the lead in some social interaction and making a new friend without Tadano or anyone else. There’s also a side story about her younger brother who’s apparently pretty similar to Komi in that he struggles to use words with other people, getting away with it on the basis of […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: high school, Komi Can't Communicate, manga, Tomohito Oda, volume 10

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:88 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: high school, Komi Can't Communicate, manga, Tomohito Oda, volume 10 ·
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I’ve a soft spot for Teen Titans

Teen Titans: Beast Boy by Kami Garcia

November 17, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While I did not like Teen Titans: Beast Boy by Kami Garcia as much as the Teen Titans: Raven, I did enjoy learning about Gar and his transformation into Beast Boy. I would have to say the main reasons why I was not as big of a fan are that the transformation was too “quick” and he accepted it a little too easy (this of course is probably due to his jokey nature and able to go by the seat of his pants).  I did not […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: friendship, green monkeys, high school, kami garcia, popularity, secret identities, superheroes

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:361 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: friendship, green monkeys, high school, kami garcia, popularity, secret identities, superheroes ·
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The Perks of No Longer Being a Teenager

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

September 30, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 6 Comments

Oh, this book. I treated it like a sacred text back in high school. I gave it regular re-reads through the beginning of college, but then I let it fade into the background. It used to be my “Fall” book (despite it covering an entire school year) and while I continued to think back on fondly, I started to replace that nostalgia drip with the character-created playlists from within the book. It’s been years since I last picked it up, but Ride’s “Vapour Trail” creeps […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: abuse, coming-of-age, cringeworthy, friendship, high school, nostalgia, reread, Stephen Chbosky, suburbia, the nineties, trauma

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:106 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: abuse, coming-of-age, cringeworthy, friendship, high school, nostalgia, reread, Stephen Chbosky, suburbia, the nineties, trauma ·
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