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Suburban Hell by Maureen Kilmer

October 26, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR14 Bingo: Monster. One of the women in a group of suburban mom friends turns into a literal monster and it’s up to the other women to save her. For almost thirty years (maybe going on forty), the suburbs have been used as a setting to explore the murky themes beyond the American idyll of house/car/2.5 kids. From mystery to horror to…well whatever John Waters does, we’ve often seen the lily white burbs are not all they seem. The Tom Hanks-esque […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: ghosts, horror, Illinois, Maureen Kilmer, suburban Chicago, Suburban Hell, suburbs, zombies

Jake's CBR14 Review No:188 · Genres: Horror · Tags: ghosts, horror, Illinois, Maureen Kilmer, suburban Chicago, Suburban Hell, suburbs, zombies ·
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Everything she has is secondhand.

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

April 9, 2017 by borisanne 3 Comments

I succumbed and read The Girl on the Train! Why the hell didn’t any of you warn me that it would be impossible not to take it way too personally? J’accuse! (Just kidding; I like to stay unspoiled and wouldn’t have listened to you anyway.) What’s funny is that I listen to the “My Favorite Murder” podcast, and I’ve listened to their promo for the movie a whole bunch of times, in which the script goes “devasted by her recent divorce…” blah blah blah blah. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: abuse, Alcohol, cbr9, divorce, Fiction, Hawkins, London, murder, murder mystery, mystery, Paula Hawkins, self-care, suburbs

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: abuse, Alcohol, cbr9, divorce, Fiction, Hawkins, London, murder, murder mystery, mystery, Paula Hawkins, self-care, suburbs ·
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I went to the library and checked out a book because I was getting scared.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

December 16, 2016 by borisanne 2 Comments

I just reviewed Becky Albertalli’s “Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda” and I’m not going to lie, I was reading “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” at the same time, and sometimes I had trouble telling the difference between them. And I mean that with every compliment, because, as I wrote in my “Simon” review, there’s a strong and important tradition of novels that normalize the alienation of adolescence, and the millions of forms that it can take. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: abuse, adolescence, Chblosky, eighties, Fiction, high school, lsd, ohio, rocky horror, Stephen Chblosky, suburbs, Teenagers, YA, Young Adult

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: abuse, adolescence, Chblosky, eighties, Fiction, high school, lsd, ohio, rocky horror, Stephen Chblosky, suburbs, Teenagers, YA, Young Adult ·
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