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Back Then: A queer journey back in time by Ralf König and Łukasz Majcher

November 5, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Read what the old gay uncles and lesbian aunts have to say in colorful picture stories. And let’s all continue to fight together so that this will never happen again. ― Ralf König, Back Then: A queer journey back in time CBR16 Bingo: Pride I picked this up a couple of months ago at a literary festival. Other than Heartstopper and other Alice Oseman books, I’ve never bought graphic novels or comic books. One of the illustrators was selling this book as well as her […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: AIDS crisis, Berlin, cbr16bingo, East Germany, growing up/coming of age, LGBTQIA, Ralf König and Łukasz Majcher, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:85 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: AIDS crisis, Berlin, cbr16bingo, East Germany, growing up/coming of age, LGBTQIA, Ralf König and Łukasz Majcher, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s ·
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Growing up (in the north of Sweden) is hard to do

July 13, 2015 by Malin 1 Comment

Matti grows up in a tiny town in the remote north of Sweden in the 1960s and 70s. The chapters in this book are more like little short stories about different aspects of his childhood and adolescence, chronicled with humour and the occasional forays into strange, magical realism-inspired fantasy sequences. The inhabitants of his town and the surrounding areas seem to be either deeply puritanically religious or Communists, not caring for the trappings of religion at all. The gruff and peculiar inhabitants are set in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR7, coming-of-age, historical fiction, Malin, Mikael Niemi, Norwegian, Popular Music from Vittula, rock music, Sweden, the 1960s, the 1970s

Malin's CBR7 Review No:72 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR7, coming-of-age, historical fiction, Malin, Mikael Niemi, Norwegian, Popular Music from Vittula, rock music, Sweden, the 1960s, the 1970s ·
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