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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Racism is a very real thing, even in Norway

Kvit, norsk mann (White Norwegian man) by Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

January 18, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

Nowhere Bingo 2025: A poetry collection The author of this poetry collection was adopted from South Korea by a childless Norwegian couple when he was three years old. Throughout this rather short, but very impactful poetry collection, he writes about his constant feeling of exclusion and lack of belonging. As a child of Asian descent in a small western Norwegian village surrounded by white people, he obviously stood out among the other children. Adopted by farmers to take over their farm when they grew old, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Poetry Tagged With: adoption, alienation, Autobiographical, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, cbr17, contemporary fiction, Kvit norsk mann, Malin, Norwegian, Nynorsk, poetry, Racism

Malin's CBR17 Review No:4 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Poetry · Tags: adoption, alienation, Autobiographical, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, cbr17, contemporary fiction, Kvit norsk mann, Malin, Norwegian, Nynorsk, poetry, Racism ·
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Cleaning up the forest and your thoughts

No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant

January 17, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant was not what I expected from what I had read about it and the cover. Hazel’s story is a coming of age story, which is not a new theme. However, the way Newlevant presents it feels fresh. The graphic novel has an odd cover look to it. First it looks like it is going to be about a middle schooler or young highschooler, but for the middle school age. But then it looks more teen and for the 15 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: coming-of-age, friendship, Hazel Newlevant, homeschooling, Oregon, Portland, privilege, Race relations, Racism

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: coming-of-age, friendship, Hazel Newlevant, homeschooling, Oregon, Portland, privilege, Race relations, Racism ·
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Family History and Mysteries

Tangleroot by Kalela Williams

October 15, 2024 by LB Leave a Comment

Gosh, where to start with this book. Tangleroot opens with Noni being forced to give an opening speech to introduce her mother, Radiance, as the new president of Stonepost college, but the speech has been edited because Radiance is pushing to have the college renamed after their ancestor, Cuffee Fortune, who built and opened the college. Noni isn’t able to finish the speech and accidentally hot mics her mom when she reiterates that she didn’t want to the speech. Radiance is a force, and she’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Young Adult Tagged With: college, contemporary, enslavement, family, family history, family secrets, historical fiction, Kalela Williams, New Adult, Racism, Virginia

LB's CBR16 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, History, Young Adult · Tags: college, contemporary, enslavement, family, family history, family secrets, historical fiction, Kalela Williams, New Adult, Racism, Virginia ·
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Loosely based on the author’s life

I Run to Make My Heart Beat by Rachel Khan

September 9, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

TRIGGERS (but not limited to): sexual assault, smoking, drugs, alcohol, cultural situations    When I found the online link to I Run to Make My Heart Beat by Rachel Khan and illustrated by Aude Massot I thought it was something radically different from what it was.  I assumed it was for the 10 and up crowd, or even younger. It was going to be about a girl who runs. Maybe she will have to overcome the fact she is of color, a woman, or maybe […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Religion, Romance, Sports, Young Adult Tagged With: 1990s Paris, Aude Massot, family, identity, microaggressions, Rachel Khan, Racism

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:430 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Religion, Romance, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: 1990s Paris, Aude Massot, family, identity, microaggressions, Rachel Khan, Racism ·
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Perhaps the most American of novels.

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

February 11, 2024 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

In 1905, Thomas Dixon’s The Clansmen: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan was published to massive sales and widespread scorn. The book was supportive of segregation, and glorified not only the Confederacy, but the Klan it was purporting to tell the story of. One year later, mobs of white Atlantans massacred African Americans following lurid and unfounded accusations made in local newspapers about the alleged rape of four white women at the hands of black men. At least 25 black people were murdered […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: civil war, Gone with the Wind, KKK, Margaret Mitchell, Racism, Reconstruction, Slavery, The South

ingres77's CBR16 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: civil war, Gone with the Wind, KKK, Margaret Mitchell, Racism, Reconstruction, Slavery, The South ·
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Skin

Perdition U.S.A. by Gary Phillips

January 11, 2024 by Jake 2 Comments

I’ve written it in other reviews and I know it can come off as pandering so forgive me but one of racism’s many sins is that the Ivan Monk series isn’t more widely available. Yes it does have a certain niche following among those of us who peruse mysteries. But good God, I go to a mystery section at my local Barnes and Noble and there’s so…much…dreck (and Agatha Christie reprints which — to be clear — is not dreck but that estate really doesn’t […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: california, Gary Phillips, Ivan Monk, mystery, Oregon, Perdition U.S.A., Racism

Jake's CBR16 Review No:2 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: california, Gary Phillips, Ivan Monk, mystery, Oregon, Perdition U.S.A., Racism ·
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