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“I think about the future a lot.”

Kimmie66 by Aaron Alexovich

December 25, 2024 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

A while ago, I deaccessioned a lot of my comics/graphic novels, and now years later am reaccessioning the ones that I realized I really do want. Kimmie66 is one of those. I am a lifelong fan of Aaron Alexovich’s other series, Serenity Rose, and this is in somewhat of the same vein tonally. Kimmie66 is set in a near future where there are immersive VR worlds (“lairs”) that people spend large amounts of their lives in. Telly is 14 and her lair is Elysium, a […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Aaron Alexovich, Graphic Novel, suicide, teen suicide, virtual reality, Young Adult

GentleRain's CBR16 Review No:75 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #Science Fiction, Aaron Alexovich, Graphic Novel, suicide, teen suicide, virtual reality, Young Adult ·
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Disaffected emotionally stunted (Indian-American) manchild??? SIGN ME UP!!1

Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

April 8, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Content warning: suicide Second Disclaimer: I am perhaps unduly harsh on books about the Indian-American experience. They are more likely to exasperate me. Not because I think that every book needs to perfectly express my experience–I loved Never Have I Ever, and my experience could not have been more disparate–but because they seem to barely skim the surface of the wealth of experience that I know the #ownvoices author must have. So they don’t come off as insightful to me, the way that Big Bang Theory‘s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: content warning, Sanjena Sathian, teen suicide

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:60 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: content warning, Sanjena Sathian, teen suicide ·
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Teen Suicide without a gimmick

May 7, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I quite enjoyed Foreman’s novel If I Stay and its follow up Where She Went, and while she isn’t an author I would have remembered to deliberately look for, when I saw she had another novel, I decided it was worth a shot. I Was Here is told from the perspective of Cody, whose best friend Meg, went off to college and committed suicide at the beginning of her spring semester. For the most part, Foreman does a good job of creating a complex character in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: gayle foreman, I Was Here, teen suicide

Jen K's CBR10 Review No:67 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: gayle foreman, I Was Here, teen suicide ·
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