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When Newcomers Come to Canada from all over the world to stay

Carry on: Poetry by Young Immigrants by Simon Boulerice

February 15, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Carry on: Poetry by Young Immigrants was a book I found on a site the store I work at uses for ordering. It might have been just a sample of the poetry, not the completed version, but either way, this book illustrated by Roge Girard is something worth looking into. Told from the point of view of young immigrants, each poem is a snapshot of thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams, fears, and observations. We see how cold is experienced for the first time. How the thought […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult Tagged With: Canada, Current Events, Emigration & Immigration, Feelings, Immigrants, Roge Girard, Simon Boulerice, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:60 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult · Tags: Canada, Current Events, Emigration & Immigration, Feelings, Immigrants, Roge Girard, Simon Boulerice, Social Themes ·
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A gut-punch of a book filled with the stories we rarely hear

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

October 17, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

BINGO – REP (BLACKOUT) I feel that is is important at the start of this review to indicate that I am a non-Hispanic white person. Author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is a recipient of DACA and a journalist (though she eschews that title, more on that later). For The Undocumented Americans Villavicencio set forth to tell the stories of the undocumented immigrants that we don’t often hear about. She purposefully does not write about DREAMers because she “didn’t want to write anything inspirational.” She wanted to […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, DACA, Immigrants, Immigration, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, undocumented

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:58 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, DACA, Immigrants, Immigration, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, undocumented ·
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“Of all the myriad races of thinking creatures in the world, the two that most delight in telling stories are the flesh-and-blood humans and the long-lived, fiery jinn.”

The Hidden Palace (The Golem & The Jinni, #2) by Helene Wecker

September 16, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I’m having a hard time reviewing this one, mostly because I had a hard time deciding what I thought about it. But I’m on the verge of getting hopelessly behind in reviews again, so it’s time to buckle down and figure it out. I was thinking about the book this morning and I think I’ve finally formed some solid opinions, so here we go. This is a book about change in all its forms: death (and grief), destruction, creation, evolution, the way a person changes […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, helene wecker, historical fantasy, historical fiction, Immigrants, narfna, the golem and the jinni, the hidden palace

narfna's CBR13 Review No:122 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, helene wecker, historical fantasy, historical fiction, Immigrants, narfna, the golem and the jinni, the hidden palace ·
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Family

Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up in My Immigrant Family? by Marisabina Russo

June 11, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I had a small roller coaster ride of thoughts and feelings about the graphic memoir, Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up in My Immigrant Family? At first, I thought, “Sounds fun.” Then, “Huh, what’s going on?” And “This is slow reading.” With, “Oh, yeah digging this, getting meaty.” Along with several, “If this was fiction nobody would allow such a stereotype!” And finally, “Well that was a ride. And that afterwards was a good roundup.”   Our narrator, Cookie is “the lucky one” of her […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult Tagged With: family, fathers & daughters, first-generation American, friendship, Immigrants, Immigration, Judaism, Marisabina Russo, Mothers & Daughters, Religion, siblings

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:172 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: family, fathers & daughters, first-generation American, friendship, Immigrants, Immigration, Judaism, Marisabina Russo, Mothers & Daughters, Religion, siblings ·
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Does what it says on the tin!

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang

October 15, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was good and I liked it, but I didn’t expect it to be so young-skewing. It’s definitely a middle grade book. Older teenagers and adults can read and enjoy it, but it’s not really an all-ages read. Aside from that, it was really well done. I went into this with no background, and it was a fun read that way, but I wish I would have read the historical context/afterword from Yang at the back of the book first. Better yet, I wish they […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adapted from radio, DC Comics, Gene Luen Yang, graphic novels, Gurihuru, historical fiction, Immigrants, middle grade, Superman, superman smashes the klan

narfna's CBR12 Review No:145 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adapted from radio, DC Comics, Gene Luen Yang, graphic novels, Gurihuru, historical fiction, Immigrants, middle grade, Superman, superman smashes the klan ·
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“Maybe it wasn’t about the moving to new places, but about the challenge of staying put.”

The Leavers by Lisa Ko

September 4, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This felt like two separate books to me, and one of them I liked much better than the other. The two central characters in this novel are Deming Guo and his mother, Polly, who is a Chinese immigrant (undocumented) from the city of Fuzhou, now living in New York (I loved the specificity of Deming and Polly insisting they speak Fuzhounese, which is a dialect of Min Chinese; this book had great cultural and historical detail like this all throughout). The first third of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Asian-American, Fiction, Immigrants, lisa ko, lit-fic, literary fiction, narfna, read harder challenge 2020, the leavers

narfna's CBR12 Review No:121 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Asian-American, Fiction, Immigrants, lisa ko, lit-fic, literary fiction, narfna, read harder challenge 2020, the leavers ·
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