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Modern Jo with a classic feel

Jo: A Graphic Novel by Kathleen Gros

January 19, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Jo: A Graphic Novel by Kathleen Gros was not exactly what I thought it was going to be, but at the same time, it was exactly what I thought it would be. It is a modern reimagining of the classic, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. We have the March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. And of course, their mother, Marmee and neighbor Laurie. The book is told from the first-person perspective of Jo. This is through her events and through her blog. Of […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: family, friendship, glbtq, Kathleen Gros, louisa may alcott, newspapers/reporters, school, siblings, Sisters

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:22 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: family, friendship, glbtq, Kathleen Gros, louisa may alcott, newspapers/reporters, school, siblings, Sisters ·
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It Was Kind of Different So She Never Read it Again

The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

January 4, 2021 by Jenny S 4 Comments

Though I am not from Minnesota, I have spent some quality time living there—in college and then afterwards so reading this was both fun and a little nostalgic.  The small details, both comical and kind, are what really make these characters come alive.  Also, I was already missing spending quality time inside my town’s two local nano-breweries and this made me miss them even more (even as I drink their beverages at home). This novel tells the story of two sisters, Edith and Helen, whose […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Beer, beer brewing, j ryan stradal, Minnesota, Sisters, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

Jenny S's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Beer, beer brewing, j ryan stradal, Minnesota, Sisters, The Lager Queen of Minnesota ·
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Dysfunction Junction

Sisters: A Novel by Daisy Johnson

November 1, 2020 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

If you enjoy a novel with a questionable/unreliable narrator, then Sisters is for you. Clocking in at just over 200 pages, it is the kind of book you could get through in a day, and the plot is such that the reader will want to find out exactly what has happened and why. This makes it a little tricky to review without spoilers, but here we go. Teenagers July and September are sisters, with only 10-months difference in their ages. September is definitely the dominant […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12, Daisy Johnson, ElCicco, Fiction, ReadWomen, Sisters

ElCicco's CBR12 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12, Daisy Johnson, ElCicco, Fiction, ReadWomen, Sisters ·
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the Sanderson sisters are still my favorite witchy siblings, but the Owens family are not messing around!

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

October 27, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Lookout y’all, it’s re-read time! Alice Hoffman used to be a favorite author of mine; we slowly went our separate ways after The Museum of Extraordinary Things. There was no big breakup; we just grew apart. We wanted different things. The separation was so slow and gentle that I forgot that she was an author that I really liked, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was a new prequal to Practical Magic hitting the shelves, oh wait, there already was a prequal? This […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alice Hoffman, audio book, girl power, kitchen sink magic, magical realism, movie adaptation, pop magic, reread, series starter, sisterhood, Sisters

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:113 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alice Hoffman, audio book, girl power, kitchen sink magic, magical realism, movie adaptation, pop magic, reread, series starter, sisterhood, Sisters ·
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“He breathed in my face the coffee he’d just drunk, mingled with the odor of his gums.”

A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

August 10, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

1970s Naples: a thirteen year old girl of privilege is suddenly removed from her seaside home and returned to a cramped and dirty apartment outside the city.  The key word here is “returned”; our heroine has been sent “home” to a place that she never knew. She spent her entire life living with her glamorous mother and policeman father, only to have that reality shattered in one afternoon when the man she knew as her father bundles her and all of her belongings into the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ann Goldstein, bildungsroman, coming-of-age, domestic violence, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, ebook, Education, europa edition, family, generational trauma, Italian language, Italy, L'Arminuta, Naples, Sisters, translated

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:88 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ann Goldstein, bildungsroman, coming-of-age, domestic violence, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, ebook, Education, europa edition, family, generational trauma, Italian language, Italy, L'Arminuta, Naples, Sisters, translated ·
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