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Any mom who misses a chance to dress her kid up like a hotdog sounds like a psychopath to me.

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

October 12, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

He’s looking to validate himself through someone else. She hasn’t caught on because she doesn’t know who she is. ― Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age CBR17 Bingo: TBR For the past week, I’ve tried to think of an appropriate metaphor for what this reading experience was like for me. In terms of amusement park metaphors, it was like a rollercoaster with the slow climb to the top, each click of the chain ramping up the tension until you’re yanked up and over, all of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, childcare, Classism, interracial relationship, interracial romance, Kiley Reid, Manipulative behavior, Motherhood, Racism, social climbing, social status, wealth gap, working class

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, childcare, Classism, interracial relationship, interracial romance, Kiley Reid, Manipulative behavior, Motherhood, Racism, social climbing, social status, wealth gap, working class ·
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Exploring a Family Tragedy and How Things Left Unsaid Fester

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

September 7, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I’d meant to read this for a while, but somehow ended up reading Ng’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, first.  While this one didn’t have quite the same impact as her follow up, it was still a very good novel, and I really enjoyed the complexity she brought to all the characters, their motivations, and how she portrayed how even well meaning actions could have negative and long lasting impacts. As the novel begins, the Lee family is going through their normal morning routine in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Celeste Ng, Chinese American, Everything I Never Told You, family drama, interracial relationship

Jen K's CBR11 Review No:71 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Celeste Ng, Chinese American, Everything I Never Told You, family drama, interracial relationship ·
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