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Will this be a review of this book or a review of my Episcopalian conversion? Stay tuned.

Jesus Was An Episcopalian (And You Can Be One Too!) by Rev. Chris Yaw

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There’s a lot to unpack here and most of it really isn’t about this book. I was raised Lutheran and turned out queer, which took me down Agnostic Avenue. I was also born and raised with an unfortunate penchant for self-loathing and perfectionism and never lost a deep-down belief in some kind of God. Enter a great big beautiful holy corrupt institutional enabler: the Catholic Church. And that’s how I became a queer adult convert to Catholicism. I felt something in the church I’d never felt before – holiness and a truth that could not be ignored. It took my […]

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4/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

I can already say this will be my favourite of 2018.

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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I’ve read a lot of good books this year, but I feel confident that Her Body and Other Parties will be my favourite read of 2018. Carmen Maria Machado’s collection of short stories is nothing short of perfection, and brings everything I was looking for in a year of reading mostly feminist, female-identified, and woman-positive fiction writers. Every story in this collection is deliciously good, though, like many, my personal favourites are “The Husband Stitch,” “Real Women Have Bodies,” and “Eight Bites.” My least favourite was “Especially Heinous” but only because it was insanely long, (much like the series it mimics) and once I got the […]

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8/14/2018 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

I just bought it because of the cover

Kidnapped by the Pirate by Keira Andrews

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In the last month or so I’ve been dealing with some mental health issues and just couldn’t bring myself to read anything that required a lot of effort or that had any potential to make me upset. I am also not exactly sure how I got a copy of this book (it’s on my phone, so I might have spent too much time browsing the romance section in iBook), but the promise of a gay bodice-ripper romantic novel was just too good not to pick up. The premise of the book is simple: Nathaniel Bainbridge, a young nobleman, is traveling […]

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7/31/2018 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

If a Pajiban was to write Serenity fan fiction (and get it published.)

Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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Long Way to a Small Angry Planet This is a rare Sci-Fi book indeed. A long way to small angry planet is written by a former staffer for the Marysue.com.  The book is unabashedly feminist, sex positive, inclusive and overall optimistic about the future.  It’s not heavy on plot but rather bounces from one small adventure to another resulting in character development but not much else.  The Wayfarer is a boring ship, it creates wormholes for faster space travel. The crew is tasked with opening a new wormhole in an area of space previously unwelcoming of intergalactic trade or relationships.  […]

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3/19/2017 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

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This book is a goddamned delight, and everyone should read it. The end. No, just kidding. But I am really glad I picked it up (on the recommendation of basically the entire CBR community, amirite?), even though lately I’ve been trying hard to balance my male protagonists and authors with the underrepresented lady brains that are at large and largely ignored (axe grinding alert!). I’m glad I picked it up because it’s incredibly sensitive, and thoughtful, and nuanced. It’s also a little bit self-conscious and cutesy, but so are high school students, so it all worked for me. Simon is […]

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12/16/2016 's CBR8 Review No:45 |

Polyamory (and so much more!) in Pictures

Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of KimchiCuddles.com by Tikva Wolf

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Fair warning: I’m going to pepper this review with a few actual strips from Kimchi Cuddles, because pictures are awesome and I love being able to use the actual author/artist’s art to drive a point home.  That being said, here; have a comic! Yup. Welcome to polyamory. I’ve been a practicing polyamorist for close to 15 years now and this might just be my favorite book on the subject. And that’s saying something because while there aren’t nearly as many books on the subject as I wish there were, there are still a goodly amount and I’ve read most of […]

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5/30/2016 's CBR8 Review No:5 |

Don’t let the colors fool you

ODY-C, Vol. 1: Off to Far Ithica by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward

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ODY-C is based on Homer’s Odyssey in a world where Zeus has killed off most of the men. ODY-C is a genderbent interpretation that’s completely warped out of its own mind in a psychedelic sci-fi god-ruled outer space. I mean the whole thing is nuts. Crazy colors, and sexual innuendos all over the place; think women breaking down doors with giant phallos’ and vagina-like spaceships. But don’t let the colors fool you. This is not an explosion of a book, it’s a slow, heavy journey. Much of it is told in the prose style of epic poetry mixed with plenty […]

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2/2/2016 's CBR8 Review No:4 |


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