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Just like traditional pairings, only poly…..

Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles by Tikva Wolf

January 7, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles by by Tikva Wolf, forward by Sophie Labelle    If one is curious about polyamory but wants something easier than a full on text, then this might be the one you need. You will take away from it what you put into it. My personal take was that some things helped me understand the subject, other things I felt made things even more confusing, sometimes I thought she was preaching to the converted, and some comics […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Romance, Short Stories Tagged With: Alternative Family, dating, gender, LGBTQ, Non-monogamous relationships, Relationships, Sexuality, Sophie Labelle, Tikva Wolf

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:8 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Romance, Short Stories · Tags: Alternative Family, dating, gender, LGBTQ, Non-monogamous relationships, Relationships, Sexuality, Sophie Labelle, Tikva Wolf ·
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“Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it.”

Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke

January 23, 2024 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Everyone has a butt, and most everyone accords them more thought and meaning than they do many other parts of their body. But why do we pay them so much attention? How have they come to be so fraught with connotation? I remember seeing this book on NetGalley ages back, but forgot that I wanted to read it until I read Travis_J_Smith’s review last week. This proves I have a terrible memory, because who could forget that cover? I’ve been feeling like reading a micro-history […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, feminism, Heather Radke, microhistory, non fiction, Race, science, Sexuality, sociology

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:14 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, feminism, Heather Radke, microhistory, non fiction, Race, science, Sexuality, sociology ·
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“I am done living in a world where women are lied to about their bodies; where women are objects of sexual desire but not subjects of sexual pleasure; where sex is used as a weapon against women; and where women believe their bodies are broken, simply because those bodies are not male. And I am done living in a world where women are trained from birth to treat their bodies as the enemy.”

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

September 21, 2023 by cheerbrarian 2 Comments

CBR Bingo – Sex I started reading this book in December. I finished reading it in July and began this review in August. And I’m here today to finally get it to the finish line. What has taken me so long? This isn’t just your run-of-the-mill book review procrastination, nay, I have a confession to make. I am 41 years old, and I am super duper uncomfortable talking about sex. But I finally bit the bullet and posted a reel review to Instagram where it […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr15bingo, come as you are, Emily Nagoski, Psychology, Self-help, sex, Sexuality, women's health

cheerbrarian's CBR15 Review No:26 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr15bingo, come as you are, Emily Nagoski, Psychology, Self-help, sex, Sexuality, women's health ·
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CBR15 Bingo: Picture This

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kokabe

August 4, 2023 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR15 Bingo: Picture This (can also be used for Queer Lives) Official book description: In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #BannedBooks, #memoir, CBR Book Club, CBR15, cbr15bingo, coming-of-age, Gender identity, Gender Queer, Graphic Novel, LGBTQIA, Maia Kokabe, Malin, Picture This, Sexuality

Malin's CBR15 Review No:35 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #BannedBooks, #memoir, CBR Book Club, CBR15, cbr15bingo, coming-of-age, Gender identity, Gender Queer, Graphic Novel, LGBTQIA, Maia Kokabe, Malin, Picture This, Sexuality ·
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Platonic love is love

Common Bonds by Claudie Arsenault

June 2, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was looking for a book about aromantic peoples. And I found a book about aromantic people called Common Bonds. As the publisher description says, this book is “featuring aromantic characters and centering platonic relationships.” The main editors are Claudie Arsenault, C. T. Callahan, B. R. Sanders, and RoAnna Sylver. It is heavy on the fantasy element, or realistic fantasy. Even if the story is more real (college students yapping away in their dorm room or hanging at the local bar) there can be supernatural […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: aromantic, B. R. Sanders, C. T. Callahan, Claudie Arsenault, GLBT, Platonic love, RoAnna Sylver, Sexual minorities, Sexuality

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:270 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: aromantic, B. R. Sanders, C. T. Callahan, Claudie Arsenault, GLBT, Platonic love, RoAnna Sylver, Sexual minorities, Sexuality ·
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Trying to find a new read, I found this and a few things about me.

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

June 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I found out that Simon and Schuster can give you free eBooks! I can now get eBooks through a venue not NetGalley (as I have mentioned my woes with them before) even though I much prefer “the real deal” over online. I knew that most of these titles would not be at my library, and I would not want to own copies, therefore, this was a great way to read them. And when I saw the cover of Tash Hearts Tolstoy (a grumpy Tolstoy starring […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asexual, friendship, glbtq, K.E. Ormsbee, Kathryn Ormsbee, romantic asexual, Sexuality, siblings

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:167 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asexual, friendship, glbtq, K.E. Ormsbee, Kathryn Ormsbee, romantic asexual, Sexuality, siblings ·
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