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“These scratches are a history. They tell a story.”

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

May 31, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Linus Baker is a cog in a bureaucratic machine. He is a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, or DICOMY. He is average in nearly every way: average build, average house, average desk job. Everything in his life is routine from his bus ride to work, to grinning and bearing it when he has to put up with his boss on a power-trip or his neighbor butting her way into his life, to the detailed reports he completes for all of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: bureaucracy, LGBTQ, magic, magical youth, orphanage, prejudice, The house in the cerulean sea, TJ Klune

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: bureaucracy, LGBTQ, magic, magical youth, orphanage, prejudice, The house in the cerulean sea, TJ Klune ·
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“She wondered, for the thousandth time, who got to decide one tradition was right and another was wrong.”

The Butchers' Blessing by Ruth Gilligan

November 16, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

What makes a tradition a tradition? How and when do we pass from routine to ritual, and ritual to sacred rite? How do we decide what it kept, what is left behind, and what must be destroyed for the good of the future? Ruth Gilligan knows, but she will not give us any easy answers. Instead, she gives us snapshots; a literal photograph  sets us in motion, but glimpses into the life of “modern Ireland” connect the pieces by stringing one red knot to another. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: 1996, animal husbandry, ARC, art, celtic tiger, end of the 20th century, folklore, gothic, historical fiction, Ireland, irish gothic, murder, mythology, photography, poverty, prejudice, rural poor, ruth gilligan, shankill butchers, the butchers, the butchers' curse, tin house, tin house galley club, tradition

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:120 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: 1996, animal husbandry, ARC, art, celtic tiger, end of the 20th century, folklore, gothic, historical fiction, Ireland, irish gothic, murder, mythology, photography, poverty, prejudice, rural poor, ruth gilligan, shankill butchers, the butchers, the butchers' curse, tin house, tin house galley club, tradition ·
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A precious window into the life of a disabled child

September 24, 2014 by Valyruh Leave a Comment

Draper sets out to address social prejudices against those among us with disabilities, by enabling the reader to view the world through the eyes of 11-year-old Melody, a victim of cerebral palsy. Melody is confined to a wheelchair, unable to walk or even sit upright, cannot feed herself, has uncontrollable spasms of her arms and legs, and occasionally drools in public. Worst of all, however, is that she has a mind that functions at top speed, a photographic memory, a thirst for knowledge, a need […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: acceptance, cerebral palsy, Disability, Out of My Mind, prejudice, tolerance

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:71 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: acceptance, cerebral palsy, Disability, Out of My Mind, prejudice, tolerance ·
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The true crime here is lackadaisical proofreading.

January 18, 2014 by Robyn Robotron

Did Lizzie Borden brutally murder her parents with a hatchet?  Did anyone bother to proofread this book?  What happened to the rest of this post, including the link to my review?  We may never know.

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, Did They Really Do It?, Fred Rosen, Non-Fiction, prejudice, Robyn Robotron, speculation, true crime, typos

Robyn Robotron's CBR6 Review No:4 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, Did They Really Do It?, Fred Rosen, Non-Fiction, prejudice, Robyn Robotron, speculation, true crime, typos ·
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