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Illustration of a white child, holding a drum, blowing kisses

Nostalgic Earworms Ahead!

Skinnamarink by Sharon, Lois & Bram w/Randi Hampson; Ill by Qin Leng

May 26, 2022 by NTE Leave a Comment

My memories of childhood are exceptionally vivid: I probably can’t tell you if I ate breakfast or not, but if you want to know who I sat next to in third grade, or every phone number of anybody I was friends with before I went to college, I got you. I only mention this because Sharon, Lois, & Bram feature heavily in my memories from about age 5 till about 10, and they made such an impact that some things, like the beloved-in-our-house “Skimmarink” song, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: 1980's, nostalgia, nostalgia read, Picture Books, Qin Leng, randi hampson, sharon lois & bram, Sharon, Lois & Bram w/Randi Hampson; Ill by Qin Leng, skinnamarink

NTE's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: 1980's, nostalgia, nostalgia read, Picture Books, Qin Leng, randi hampson, sharon lois & bram, Sharon, Lois & Bram w/Randi Hampson; Ill by Qin Leng, skinnamarink ·
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Running away to Nostalgia Island

Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton

Five Run Away Together by Enid Blyton

August 24, 2021 by Merryn Leave a Comment

CBRBingo:  Free! (birthday gift); Shelfie I rescued these books from the garage sale my brother and I were holding after clearing out our childhood home following the death of our father and out mother’s move to aged care.  I was flying back home afterwards, so needed to be selective with the mementos I would take with me.  I almost let these go, but I got them from my parents for my tenth birthday and loved them so much as I child that I took them […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: CBR13, cbr13bingo, Enid Blyton, nostalgia

Merryn's CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: CBR13, cbr13bingo, Enid Blyton, nostalgia ·
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Misty water-colored memories…. (CBR12Bingo 2: Nostalgia)

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

October 30, 2020 by octothorp 1 Comment

So, this book is set in 2011, and I was getting married that year at age 25. Not strictly my teen years. However, I’m counting it for two reasons – 1) 9/11/2001 is key to the plot, when I was an actual sophomore in high school, and 2) though the Harry Potter books exist in this universe, Simon Snow is very very very obviously a Harry Potter analogue, and the penultimate book in that series was released in 2005, when I was in my first […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Harry Potter, nostalgia, Rainbow Rowell

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:123 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, Harry Potter, nostalgia, Rainbow Rowell ·
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Work, Love, and Politics

Special Interests by Emma Barry

Private Politics by Emma Barry

Party Lines by Emma Barry

October 20, 2020 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

This review is going to be a lot about me, but in case this becomes a tl/dr situation – I enjoyed these books very much and you might too. I miss living in Washington DC so much. I miss the person I was trying to be in my late 20s-early 30s. I love a lot about who I am now, but I don’t feel like I personally can make the world a better place anymore. Reading Emma Barry’s The Easy Part series, Special Interests, Private […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Contemporary Romance, Emma Barry, nostalgia, Party Lines, Private Politics, Special Interests, The Easy Part series, Washington DC

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:83 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Contemporary Romance, Emma Barry, nostalgia, Party Lines, Private Politics, Special Interests, The Easy Part series, Washington DC ·
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No One Sings Like You Anymore

Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm

October 12, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

Two things relating to the music I liked back then happenend in 1994 that left a deep impression on teenage me. In April, Kurt Cobain died, and I was absolutely shocked and remained glued to MTV for days. Like so many others, I had become a grunge fan when I discovered Nevermind, and I could not quite grasp that he had shot himself. A few weeks later I bought Soundgarden’s Superunknown which just blew my mind with the insane guitar tunings they used, the incredible […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Mark Yarm, nostalgia

blauracke's CBR12 Review No:54 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, Mark Yarm, nostalgia ·
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The Perks of No Longer Being a Teenager

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

September 30, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 6 Comments

Oh, this book. I treated it like a sacred text back in high school. I gave it regular re-reads through the beginning of college, but then I let it fade into the background. It used to be my “Fall” book (despite it covering an entire school year) and while I continued to think back on fondly, I started to replace that nostalgia drip with the character-created playlists from within the book. It’s been years since I last picked it up, but Ride’s “Vapour Trail” creeps […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: abuse, coming-of-age, cringeworthy, friendship, high school, nostalgia, reread, Stephen Chbosky, suburbia, the nineties, trauma

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:106 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: abuse, coming-of-age, cringeworthy, friendship, high school, nostalgia, reread, Stephen Chbosky, suburbia, the nineties, trauma ·
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