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Any mom who misses a chance to dress her kid up like a hotdog sounds like a psychopath to me.

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

October 12, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

He’s looking to validate himself through someone else. She hasn’t caught on because she doesn’t know who she is. ― Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age CBR17 Bingo: TBR For the past week, I’ve tried to think of an appropriate metaphor for what this reading experience was like for me. In terms of amusement park metaphors, it was like a rollercoaster with the slow climb to the top, each click of the chain ramping up the tension until you’re yanked up and over, all of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, childcare, Classism, interracial relationship, interracial romance, Kiley Reid, Manipulative behavior, Motherhood, Racism, social climbing, social status, wealth gap, working class

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, childcare, Classism, interracial relationship, interracial romance, Kiley Reid, Manipulative behavior, Motherhood, Racism, social climbing, social status, wealth gap, working class ·
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1998, Colombo. The Sri Lankan Civil War is raging and there is Kavi

I Am Kavi by Thushanthi Ponweera

April 11, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

There are a few spoilers below about the book I Am Kavi by Thushanthi Ponweera.   Overall it is an interesting book. It had a few bumps for my personal tastes, but for the aged 10 and up crowd (and me back then) it is a will love title. The themes are mostly familiar, but the setting is fresh. You should read the afterwards and author notes for the extra background, information and author commentary. The format while prose poetry flows as full prose, the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Poetry, Young Adult Tagged With: Asia, civil war, military, social status, Social Themes, Sri Lankan, Sri Lankan civil war, Thushanthi Ponweera, war

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:193 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Poetry, Young Adult · Tags: Asia, civil war, military, social status, Social Themes, Sri Lankan, Sri Lankan civil war, Thushanthi Ponweera, war ·
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