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The Heart Principle grabbed mine and didn’t let go

The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

December 29, 2022 by teresaelectro 4 Comments

Helen Hoang’s The Heart Principle was everything I wanted and more. Our heroine Anna Sun is going through it. She is a violinist stuck in a loop after a performance video goes viral on YouTube. With every practice session, she wants to replicate that moment with precision. She ends up burned out and unable to finish the song. She is attempting therapy to find a breakthrough. Later that day, her boyfriend asks to “see other people” as an excuse to know that he’s ready to […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance Tagged With: autism, autistic voices, grief, Helen Hoang, Mental Health, musician, Own voices, San Francisco, The Heart Principle, The Kiss Quotient #3, violin

teresaelectro's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance · Tags: autism, autistic voices, grief, Helen Hoang, Mental Health, musician, Own voices, San Francisco, The Heart Principle, The Kiss Quotient #3, violin ·
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“The ace world is not an obligation. Nobody needs to identify, nobody is trapped, nobody needs to stay forever and pledge allegiance. The words are gifts. If you know which terms to search, you know how to find others who might have something to teach.” (Bingo Blackout & Cannonball!)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

October 30, 2021 by faintingviolet 9 Comments

Books have answers, and that is one of the reasons I love them. The past few years I’ve spent some time digging into me, and how I work, and how much of what I have presented to the outside world was authentic, and how much was what I had been expected to do. I had some knowledge of aces and asexuality before reading this particularly as one of my friends is ace and has been out for at least the decade I’ve known her, probably […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: ace, Angela Chen, asexuality, cbr13bingo, identity, investigative nonfiction, Own voices, pandemic, read harder challenge, read women, sexual identity, Social Justice, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:52 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: ace, Angela Chen, asexuality, cbr13bingo, identity, investigative nonfiction, Own voices, pandemic, read harder challenge, read women, sexual identity, Social Justice, we need diverse books ·
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Started November 12th. Finished January 12th. The breaks in reading were NECESSARY

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

January 12, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 7 Comments

…but the journey was worth it. This book is brutal. If you are sensitive at all to suffering- be it human, animal, generational, cultural- turn away now and do not look back. Four Blackfeet men engage in a bit of last-minute less-than-legal Elk hunting the weekend before Thanksgiving. What happens that day never really leaves them, but what they left behind comes rocketing back into their lives 10 years later. The 10 years since that day have not been easy; the men are plagued by […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: American Indian, audio, blackfeet, book riot read harder challenge, cultural identity, folklore, generational trauma, gore, graphic violence, legend, murder, native voices, Own voices, paranormal, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Stephen Graham Jones, supernatural, survival, thriller, tradition

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense · Tags: American Indian, audio, blackfeet, book riot read harder challenge, cultural identity, folklore, generational trauma, gore, graphic violence, legend, murder, native voices, Own voices, paranormal, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Stephen Graham Jones, supernatural, survival, thriller, tradition ·
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“Every Time Something Doesn’t Happen, It Means Something Else Can”

What If A Fish by Anika Fajardo

August 19, 2020 by Ale 1 Comment

While I’m not usually a reader of middle-grade fiction, this debut novel came across my Facebook feed, as one of my cohorts from my MFA program was its editor! I bought it immediately and was so charmed by this adorable story. What if A Fish follows Little Eddie Aguado, an eleven-year-old Colombian American who feels neither Colombian or American. As he struggles to find his place in the world, he comes across a fishing medal owned by his late-father that sets him on an adventure […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Anika Fajardo, cbr12bingo, Columbia, debut, fishing, Hispanic Heritage, middle grade, Own voices, travel

Ale's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Anika Fajardo, cbr12bingo, Columbia, debut, fishing, Hispanic Heritage, middle grade, Own voices, travel ·
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Lyrical historical coming of age fiction

Red Dove, Listen to the Wind by Sonia Antaki

October 27, 2019 by J Leave a Comment

Thirteen year old Red Dove lives in interesting times for the Lakota people. Shortly after the Battle of the Greasy Grass (Battle of Little Big Horn), her people have fallen on hard times. Food has become scarce, and the Lakota have learned that they cannot trust the people who have settled on their lands to live peacefully. In a moment of weakness, Red Dove’s mother agrees to send her children to a local Catholic school, hoping that the children will at least find regular meals […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: middle grade, middle grade fiction, NetGalley, Own voices, Sonia Antaki

J's CBR11 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: middle grade, middle grade fiction, NetGalley, Own voices, Sonia Antaki ·
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I learned something when I didn’t expect to!

Dare to Disappoint by Özge Samanci

October 16, 2019 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

I was browsing the high school graphic novel section where I substitute, looking for something to read during a prep period, when I stumbled upon this.  I had never heard of it before, but the entire section had some good stuff in it, so I picked it up. It looked cute and clever, so I started reading it.  I didn’t expect to learn things! This is a graphic memoir, taking place in the early ‘80s in Turkey.  Özge is about 10 years older than me, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: #memoir, cbr11bingo, Graphic Novel, Own voices, Özge Samanci

crystalclear's CBR11 Review No:55 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: #memoir, cbr11bingo, Graphic Novel, Own voices, Özge Samanci ·
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