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Wonder Woman Fights Modern Day Ills

Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson

December 31, 2020 by The Chancellor 1 Comment

Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Tempest Tossed” gives us a quick origin story to Diana Prince, aka Wonder Woman, before tossing her into our modern world. The plot focuses on the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and child trafficking in the U.S. While I think superheroes are a good way to bring up tough subjects, this felt very heavy handed at times. Diana becomes the naive lens through which the reader encounters the issues at hand. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: Laurie Halse Anderson

The Chancellor's CBR12 Review No:47 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic · Tags: Laurie Halse Anderson ·
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I guess I just don’t get the “narrative in verse” sensibility.

SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson

December 30, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This three (and a half) star rating is entirely personal preference. I just would prefer that this book was in prose instead of verse. I would nearly always prefer a work be in verse if it is possible. Obviously if your aim is to write poems, individually crafted ones with like, a poetic aim or whatever (I have no idea why poets do what they do) that’s not gonna work. But here, this is a memoir, and while there were several “poems” that worked as […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: #memoir, Laurie Halse Anderson, memoir in verse, narfna, poetry, read harder challenge 2020, shout, verse

narfna's CBR12 Review No:189 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: #memoir, Laurie Halse Anderson, memoir in verse, narfna, poetry, read harder challenge 2020, shout, verse ·
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A book that’s just as good as everyone says it is.

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

December 29, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was very well done. I can see why it’s so popular, and how it could easily mean a lot to a lot of people. I’ve actually had this on my TBR for years, but since I was set to read Anderson’s memoir SHOUT for the Read Harder Challenge this year, I figured it would be a good idea to finally pick it up, since the subject matter is closely related. Spoilers for the premise below, if you somehow don’t know it. This was a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Fiction, Laurie Halse Anderson, narfna, speak, YA, Young Adult

narfna's CBR12 Review No:186 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Fiction, Laurie Halse Anderson, narfna, speak, YA, Young Adult ·
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She puts the Wonder in Woman

Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson

May 15, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I like superheroes. Which some find funny as I am a villain girl. How I love me a good, ol’ baddie! However, when you have an interesting or relatable hero, I tend to find them more to my tastes (but it does not hurt that Adam West was funny and I would not mind saluting Captain American). Okay, I mixed my DC and Marvel there, but this book, Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed, is a new DC adaptation due in June of this year. Laurie Halse […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, History, Young Adult Tagged With: Action & Adventure, Emigration & Immigration, Laurie Halse Anderson, Lelia del Duca, Social Themes, superheroes, Wonder Woman

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:177 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, History, Young Adult · Tags: Action & Adventure, Emigration & Immigration, Laurie Halse Anderson, Lelia del Duca, Social Themes, superheroes, Wonder Woman ·
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Are you ready for this?

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

December 9, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Probably over 20-years ago now, I found a book called Speak. It was one of those books that kicked you in the face, butt and anyplace else that was exposed. Twenty years ago, sex was not really mainstream in young adult novels yet, and for sure rape was not even thought about let alone mentioned or written about. Then came Speak. I always said it was not a book about rape. I mean it is but there is so much more to it. It is […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult Tagged With: Laurie Halse Anderson, sexual abuse

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:526 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult · Tags: Laurie Halse Anderson, sexual abuse ·
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