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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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40: Ugh. I do not like the “cool, caustic sarcastic girl” trope.

June 10, 2018 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I wasn’t sure I wanted to read Leah on the Offbeat, the Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda sequel. I wasn’t in love with the first book (after really loving the film), so I didn’t know how a different book would change my perception of the world Becky Albertalli created. I really liked the world and the friend group she created, and I was curious about how a Leah-centered novel would work. I did find the representation of Leah in the book to be a […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: becky albertalli, bonnie, LGBT fiction

bonnie's CBR10 Review No:40 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: becky albertalli, bonnie, LGBT fiction ·
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38: Another case of “I liked the movie better.”

June 10, 2018 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I don’t see a lot of movies in the theater, partly because our area is kind of expensive, partly because I want to spend quality time with people talking and connecting and not just sitting in front of a screen, partly because I’m picky about what I plunk money down on, and partly because I can’t sit with my pajamas and snacks and play games on my tablet in a movie theater. Our local library book club had planned an outing to see Ready Player […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: becky albertalli, bonnie, LGBT fiction

bonnie's CBR10 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: becky albertalli, bonnie, LGBT fiction ·
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36: I honestly liked the movie (but not Armie Hammer) better

June 10, 2018 by bonnie Leave a Comment

In mid-January, one of our local theaters screened the film Call Me By Your Name. I knew it was a queer love story starring Armie Hammer and some new kid, but that was about it. I didn’t know there was a novel even. I spent the first half hour of the film skeptical, but I was absolutely in tears by the end of it. I put the novel on my TBR afterward, because I wanted to see how it stacked up against the film—normally, I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: andré aciman, bonnie, LGBT fiction

bonnie's CBR10 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: andré aciman, bonnie, LGBT fiction ·
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