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This one summer book cover

“Don’t worry about any of this stuff, okay? It’s all just adult junk that doesn’t mean anything.”

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki

September 29, 2023 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

This One Summer is a re-read for me. It is also the book I have read in the past few years specifically from the Banned Book List put out by the ALA that makes me scratch my head the most. It is because this is the book that hit #1 most challenged in 2016 and was why I read it in 2017. It then came back to the top ten in 2018. It did not make sense to me then, and it makes little sense […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: Banned and Challenged, banned book week, Banned Graphic Novels, CannonBookClub, cbr15bingo, children's fiction, Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki, sex, This One Summer, YA

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:24 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: Banned and Challenged, banned book week, Banned Graphic Novels, CannonBookClub, cbr15bingo, children's fiction, Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki, sex, This One Summer, YA ·
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a recommendation from banned books discussion

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki

December 30, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Recommendation by teresaelectro! I think unlike many people, it took me a while to get into the artwork for this novel. On the other hand, I found the story quite compelling from the get go. As I went through it, though (and it’s a shorter graphic novel, so it did finish quite quickly), I found the artwork beautiful in its sparseness and details—and the story a bit lacking in nuance at the end. There’s not much of a plot per se, although plenty of spoilers that […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Graphic Novel, Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki, recommendation

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:144 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Graphic Novel, Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki, recommendation ·
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