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Big Ideas and Big Friends

Big Dreams, Small Fish by Paula Cohen

Gibberish by Young Vo

March 25, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Culture is an interesting subject. And when you come from one and go to a different one, things get interesting.  The publisher Levine Querido has stories that are about cultures we may/may not be familiar with. In the process of reading them, there is a lot to learn about how we are not only different, but the same, too. Shirley is a child with big ideas, her family are immigrants, they live over their grocery store, and they cannot sell their gefilte fish. Her parents […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: Emigration & Immigration, family, friendship, jewish, language, Paula Cohen, Social Themes, Young Vo

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:126 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: Emigration & Immigration, family, friendship, jewish, language, Paula Cohen, Social Themes, Young Vo ·
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the world of yesterday

We’re all so f*cked

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

October 27, 2021 by Singsonggirl 2 Comments

It took me ages to finish this book. Not because I had troubles reading it, the language in this is in fact incredibly fluid, I would even say that German prose hardly gets better than this. It took me so long because the dawning realisation that people don’t change, they don’t ever change, is a lot to bear. The sheer relatability of this upset me to the core and it should reach so many more people. The World of Yesterday is the memoir of Stefan […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #history, austria, German, jewish, Stefan Zweig, WWI, WWII

Singsonggirl's CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #history, austria, German, jewish, Stefan Zweig, WWI, WWII ·
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You are bound to find something that speaks to you

September 18, 2018 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

Bound is one of the shortest books I have probably ever read. The longest poem is several pages long, but it is just a bunch of blacked out text. It is called (black box). I cannot put the symbol here as it is literally the black box/line that is used to block out wording in important documents. I am assuming this is the real speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I will call this poem “IPMBN” just to make it easier. If this is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Claire Schwartz, jewish, lgbt, Religion, Subjects & Themes, Women Authors

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:363 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Claire Schwartz, jewish, lgbt, Religion, Subjects & Themes, Women Authors ·
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To run a shtinker, you have to see the broken heart inside the deadest pan.

December 28, 2016 by borisanne 8 Comments

My first Chabon! OOOOOOF. WOW. Holy crap, you guys, did you know that his prose is exceptional and that there’s no exposition, and that he creates an utterly believable alternate timeline and a narrative that ramps up until you’re flying down the other side of the rollercoaster with no brakes? Are they all like this? Is my brain going to melt? How have I missed out this my entire adult life? Full disclosure: it took me a really long time to gather momentum with “The […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alaska, CBR8, Chabon, chess, Fiction, heroin, Israel, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Literature, Michael Chabon, murder, Native American, rabbis, the mob, yid, yids

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alaska, CBR8, Chabon, chess, Fiction, heroin, Israel, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Literature, Michael Chabon, murder, Native American, rabbis, the mob, yid, yids ·
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