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Superhero 101

Naomi Season One (TV Tie-In by Brian Michael Bendis

June 13, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am glad I was not the only one who was not completely taken with this graphic novel. The Goodreads reviews were averaging two and three for scores. Naomi Season One has almost nothing original to it. It was created to have representation of a person of color as the main character. It is filled with clichés, and steals Superman’s origin story (alien from another world, left on Earth). Naomi even learns of her alien heritage in a cave. Her white adoptive parents are typical, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: adoption, African American women, brian michael bendis, David F. Walter, DC Comics, Jamal Campbell, Social Themes, superheroes, teens

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:298 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: adoption, African American women, brian michael bendis, David F. Walter, DC Comics, Jamal Campbell, Social Themes, superheroes, teens ·
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a #cannonbookclub favorite RETURNS!

It All Comes Back to You by Farah Naz Rishi

September 6, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Last year, during our The Future is Queer book club event, we were introduced to the sweet and complicated world of Farah Naz Rishi with her debut novel, I Hope You Get This Message. She returns next week with a decidedly different but still warmly familiar follow up: It All Comes Back to You. IHYGTM sits firmly on the edge of an apocalypse; aliens have made contact with Earth and time is quickly slipping away. It All Comes Back to You is firmly planted in another […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: ARC, cannonbookclub 2020, desi rom com, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, Muslim, muslim american, rom com, secrets, Sparkpoint Studio, teens, The Future is Queer, YA

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:76 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: ARC, cannonbookclub 2020, desi rom com, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, Muslim, muslim american, rom com, secrets, Sparkpoint Studio, teens, The Future is Queer, YA ·
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Ponyboy is Still Gold

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

May 6, 2021 by LanierHgts 5 Comments

I first read this book when I was a teen and remember liking it. At the time I probably liked the movie more because it starred many of the teen-crush pack. I also remember being particularly struck that S.E. Hinton had to use her initials to publish so that people would not know she was a woman and discount her work. I came across this book again in a box of books I have been saving for my kids for when they became a bit […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: greasers, S.E. Hinton, Small Town Oklahoma, socs, teens

LanierHgts's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: greasers, S.E. Hinton, Small Town Oklahoma, socs, teens ·
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“you can play as a dog, a boot, or a trebuchet”

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

February 15, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Man, I really wish Monopoly (oh wait- World Domination) had a trebuchet. I’m usually the shoe, but I would LOVE to be a trebuchet. It has been perpetually gray here in New Hampshire for the last…oh jeez, three weeks? I needed something familiar to hunker down with while waiting for the sun to return, and while shuffling around my house I remembered LittlePlat‘s recent Nimona review. A great review about a great book? Just the spark I needed! Thank you, LittlePlat, and thank you to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction Tagged With: adventure, comfort read, coming-of-age, friendship, noelle stevenson, re-read, science fantasy, sequential art, teens, web comic

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:24 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction · Tags: adventure, comfort read, coming-of-age, friendship, noelle stevenson, re-read, science fantasy, sequential art, teens, web comic ·
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Being a teenager is hard enough without the threat of total annihilation looming on the horizon.

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

April 27, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 3 Comments

Jesse, Cate, and Adeem are all just trying to survive- even before they catch wind of an alien planet’s message to earth: you will all be destroyed in seven days. Our main trio holds a treasure trove of teen torments between them: absent parents, the desire to be loved, the inability to accept care, the need to be anywhere other than where they are. Everyone is attempting to find someone who does not necessarily want to be found, and I was worried that we’d being […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, Aliens, coming-of-age, debut novel, end of the world, family drama, Farah Naz Rishi, hafez, Islam, LGBTQ, mental illness, radio, road trip, rumi, teens, The Future is Queer, YA

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:39 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, Aliens, coming-of-age, debut novel, end of the world, family drama, Farah Naz Rishi, hafez, Islam, LGBTQ, mental illness, radio, road trip, rumi, teens, The Future is Queer, YA ·
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Oh! To be sixteen once again

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

October 9, 2018 by getoffmylawnn 2 Comments

  As a 16 yo, I didn’t experience a first love. A couple of crushes, but none of them were anything more than an occasional glance in the lift, or a quickening of pulse when they appeared in front of me. To read Rainbow Rowell describe it so minutely in normal-speak without being elaborate is a welcome peek into a world when feelings run amok, you barely understand what’s happening and yet you feel so much (so – much like my current mid-thirties, GOTCHA, dumb-ass […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, bingo, CBR10 Bingo, cbr10bingo, emotion, heartache, Love, music, Rainbow Rowell, So Popular!, teens, YA

getoffmylawnn's CBR10 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, bingo, CBR10 Bingo, cbr10bingo, emotion, heartache, Love, music, Rainbow Rowell, So Popular!, teens, YA ·
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