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A hurricane that never lets up

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

April 1, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Content warnings: rampant homophobia and sexism From NPR’s review: Brutality abounds, and the violence, often directed at women and gay people, is so close to real events that it almost qualifies as nonfiction. This is not an easy book to read, for multiple reasons. The first and most obvious reason is clear when you open the book and start getting a few pages in–you’ll quickly flip through and realize that yes, there is not a single paragraph break to be seen. Melchor has taken the verbosity […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fernanda Melchor, Homophobia, translation

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fernanda Melchor, Homophobia, translation ·
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Pobody’s nerfect?

August 13, 2018 by Dusty Highway Leave a Comment

CBR10Bingo: Cannonballer Says I’ve tried to branch out more into other genres and new authors with my reading this year, and some of the bigger gaps in my library include YA and lesbian lit. Just my luck, then, that MrsLangdonAlger posted a review for not one but two YA coming out novels with female protagonists: Ask the Passengers by A.S. King and It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura. I’ve had an eye out for both books for a few months now, finally […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, A.S. King, Ask the Passengers, CannonballerSays, cbr10bingo, Fiction, Homophobia, lesbian literature, lgbt, MrsLangdonAlger, questioning sexuality, YA fiction

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, A.S. King, Ask the Passengers, CannonballerSays, cbr10bingo, Fiction, Homophobia, lesbian literature, lgbt, MrsLangdonAlger, questioning sexuality, YA fiction ·
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