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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Family

Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up in My Immigrant Family? by Marisabina Russo

June 11, 2021 by BlackRaven 1 Comment

I had a small roller coaster ride of thoughts and feelings about the graphic memoir, Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up in My Immigrant Family? At first, I thought, “Sounds fun.” Then, “Huh, what’s going on?” And “This is slow reading.” With, “Oh, yeah digging this, getting meaty.” Along with several, “If this was fiction nobody would allow such a stereotype!” And finally, “Well that was a ride. And that afterwards was a good roundup.”   Our narrator, Cookie is “the lucky one” of her […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult Tagged With: family, fathers & daughters, first-generation American, friendship, Immigrants, Immigration, Judaism, Marisabina Russo, Mothers & Daughters, Religion, siblings

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:172 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: family, fathers & daughters, first-generation American, friendship, Immigrants, Immigration, Judaism, Marisabina Russo, Mothers & Daughters, Religion, siblings ·
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“One night. I just want one night of sleep”…”Is it that too much to to ask? One night where I don’t have to babysit or dig up a corpse?…”

The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson

June 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Part of my Simon and Schuster publisher online finds included The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson. A mouthful of a title that almost hides the plot of this young adult novel. The Past is a messy, quirky, simple and a modern teen novel. Even the unlikable characters can be likable. This is mostly since you can sympathize with what is going on, even if you have never been a reanimated, dead, best ex-friend. (Images are three of the […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: dating, Death, expectations, family, farting gas, friendship, glbtq, Shaun David Hutchinson, siblings, social issues

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:170 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: dating, Death, expectations, family, farting gas, friendship, glbtq, Shaun David Hutchinson, siblings, social issues ·
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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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“When you’re twins, the magic just never ends” (Little Richard, Philip Bailey)

Twins: A Graphic Novel by Varian Johnson

May 28, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Twins: A Graphic Novel has two main elements that make it both familiar and new. Varian Johnson does the “twin thing” (two sisters who are best friends, know each other in ways even their parents cannot know, and are each other’s “partner in crime/fear/whatever is needed), but then makes a new twist with having a modern touch with a blended family of color. The story is simple: Two sisters; almost identical (one is slightly taller; this one has a scar) and best friends. That is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: family, Shannon Wright, siblings, Sisters, Social Themes, twins, Varian Johnson

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:160 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: family, Shannon Wright, siblings, Sisters, Social Themes, twins, Varian Johnson ·
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“It’s still true”

Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

April 11, 2021 by cheerbrarian 2 Comments

In the early pandemic times, when I had that “new pandemic energy,” I started reading the first books of The Babysitter’s Club series on Facebook live, adding in my own color commentary. It was a hit, I mean TENS of people tuned in (heh). Like a lot of new quirky pandemic hobbies (I’m looking at you, sourdough starter) it soon lost it’s luster and I only made it like 2 and a half books in, and I stowed the books on my book shelf in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Childhood Favorites, Cynthia Voigt, family, homecoming, Newbery, siblings, Tillerman Cycle

cheerbrarian's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Childhood Favorites, Cynthia Voigt, family, homecoming, Newbery, siblings, Tillerman Cycle ·
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The language we say and don’t say

The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga

March 15, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Shape of Thunder is a 3.5 rating instead of a three or four (I am not sure what I will put as my rating officially as I’m writing out a draft before posting). This is because I was looking for “something” that never came about in this Jasmine Warga middle grade reader (around ages 10 to 14, but younger (and older) could read). The story alternates chapters with the two main characters, Cora and Quinn. They were best friends until “the event” and Cora […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Young Adult Tagged With: family, friendship, Jasmine Warga, siblings, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:115 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Young Adult · Tags: family, friendship, Jasmine Warga, siblings, Social Themes ·
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