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Gossip, Judgement and Destruction – Read this Book

Good People by Patmeena Sarit

April 22, 2026 by itsjustme Leave a Comment

Are we not all outsiders to another person’s life?   Mesmerizing Debut Novel  The novel’s unique structure lacks traditional chapters, paragraphs or narrator. Instead there are 1-2 page personal accounts, giving a 360 degree view of the leadup and the aftermath of one family’s tragedy. I had read about one-third of the book before even learning how somebody died but yet still did not know who had died. There are dozens of unreliable narrators with differing degrees of closeness. Sympathetic words mask superiority, scorn, prejudice […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: #innovative, #mystery, adolescence, drama, family, jealousy, Patmeena Sarit, rebellion, social commentary

itsjustme's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: #innovative, #mystery, adolescence, drama, family, jealousy, Patmeena Sarit, rebellion, social commentary ·
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I’m not the audience. Are you?

Magical Beatdown, Vol 1 by Jenn Woodall

October 29, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I think it is time to either pause or cancel my Silver Sprocket subscription. I had gotten several books that I enjoyed and never would have read otherwise if it hadn’t been for this subscription. But in a recent shipment I had nothing but disappointing reads. The first I read was Magical Beatdown, Vol 1 by Jenn Woodall. It is a short zine that is created with light (almost faded, but still popping) blue and pink colors, quickly drawn looking lines and is overly simplified. […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: East Asian Style, Jenn Woodall, Magical Girl, manga, social commentary

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:473 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: East Asian Style, Jenn Woodall, Magical Girl, manga, social commentary ·
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Yellowface: what a wild ride

Yellowface by RF Kuang

January 26, 2024 by donttrustthe_bea 2 Comments

mood music: t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l – willow smith This book was a wild ride. I had a very love-hate relationship with it, and it took time to finish because of this. A social commentary about the literary publishing world, it tackles issues with diversity and inclusivity and how minority writers are boxed into specific genres by their publishing companies in service of diversifying the signed authors. The story follows June Haywayd, a young […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Asian Heritage, literary fiction, racism in publishing, RF Kuang, social commentary, unreliable female narrator

donttrustthe_bea's CBR16 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Asian Heritage, literary fiction, racism in publishing, RF Kuang, social commentary, unreliable female narrator ·
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Keeping some hope alive

Hooky, vols. 1-2 by Miriam Bonastre Tur

November 12, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

One of the cardinal sins of any kind of story for me is to be misleading in terms of the general tone and approach it takes. For example, there’s this one anime series I watched years ago (I don’t even remember the title now) that was mostly a lighthearted cute series about the relationship between a boy and this mysterious robot girl he finds. Then suddenly, two episodes from the end it turned completely dystopic, dark, and tragic and pointless. I hated that and it […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #fantasy, chosen one, Comics, coming-of-age, Hooky, magic school, Miriam Bonastre Tur, social commentary, WebToon

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:84 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #fantasy, chosen one, Comics, coming-of-age, Hooky, magic school, Miriam Bonastre Tur, social commentary, WebToon ·
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Hands-Down My Favorite TITLE of 2022

Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace E. Lavery

April 6, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 5 Comments

Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis Let that title sink in. It’s so great! Also great: hearing Grace Lavery say it aloud herself. If you have any interest in diving into this piece (and holy moly, you should!) I HIGHLY recommend listening to the audio performance- and I do mean performance! Grace, Danny Lavery, and Marc Vietor do not skimp on the drama and pomp. Grace, in particular, has a lovely elastic and elegant lilt- cliché of clichés, but I do think I […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir Tagged With: daniel lavery, essays, Grace E. Lavery, identity, LGBTQIA, LGTBQIA author, Literature, Love, Marc Vietor, porn, queer, read by the author, sex, social commentary, trans

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: daniel lavery, essays, Grace E. Lavery, identity, LGBTQIA, LGTBQIA author, Literature, Love, Marc Vietor, porn, queer, read by the author, sex, social commentary, trans ·
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A few slow moments but overall worth pushing through

The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk

August 19, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

BINGO – Free (picked up from my local library) Beatrice Clayborn must get married. She must. Getting married is the only way to save her family from financial ruin. But to get married means that she will have to give up her passion and goals: to become a great mage and the first female mage. Complicating her situation further is Ianthe Lavan, an extremely wealthy, handsome, compassionate man determined to win her hand in marriage, and his sister Ysbeta who wants the same things as […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: c.l. polk, cbr13bingo, magic, social commentary, Spirits

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:49 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: c.l. polk, cbr13bingo, magic, social commentary, Spirits ·
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