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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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God help this woman, I sure can’t!

Negative Space by Gillian Linden

October 28, 2024 by genericwhitegirl Leave a Comment

“No one is suggesting anyone should react to anything in any particular way.” I think that is the guiding principle of many people who, whether they realize it or not, end up showing tolerance and ambivalence at the same time. And it sums up how I felt about this book. When I first started listening to this book, I thought the narrator was a teenager. She is timid, insecure, anxious, questioning of every little thing around her. I soon realized she is a teacher at […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, genericwhitegirl, Gillian Linden, Negative Space, pandemic, skootchyknees

genericwhitegirl's CBR16 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction, genericwhitegirl, Gillian Linden, Negative Space, pandemic, skootchyknees ·
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The Opposite of Euphoria

Negative Space by B.R. Yeager

August 3, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR 16 Bingo: dreams. One of the main characters consistently has dreams that impact the plot of the story. CN: This book has many references to suicide, sometimes graphically. I won’t go into detail here but it’s impossible to review without mentioning it. If that’s something that makes you uncomfortable, sit this one out. Like many a child of the 80s and 90s, I’m a product of DARE’s Just Say No Culture. I never did drugs, was terrified of them as […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: B.R. Yeager, cbr16bingo, Dreams, drugs, Negative Space, New Hampshire, undefinable

Jake's CBR16 Review No:118 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: B.R. Yeager, cbr16bingo, Dreams, drugs, Negative Space, New Hampshire, undefinable ·
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