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About chelz.hawk

CBR13 participant

I am an avid reader, even more so of the past few year and have decided to use my powers for good and join this challenge!

chelz.hawk's Reviews:

A tough read about tough topics…but oh so lovely.

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

September 8, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

“In each picture, Claude seemed to be shrinking. He had a big family, yes, so it was hard to fit everyone on the page, and he was the littlest of them, true, but Claude got smaller and smaller.” Penn and Rosie always wanted a daughter. But as life would have it—they had five sons. But one night their youngest, Claude informs them that he’d like to be a little girl when he grows up. While their son is advanced, particularly in his vocabulary, they still […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, family, Gender nonconformity, Laurie Frankel, transgender, transgender children

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, family, Gender nonconformity, Laurie Frankel, transgender, transgender children ·
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My divine book delivery theory hard at work…

Into The Fire by Amanda Page

September 7, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again– books find me when I need them. And this one is the epitome of that theory. I recently found myself at an airshow and at that airshow I met a boy (man). And that boy (works for the Blue Angels) wants to be a fighter pilot. But I know all about pilots. Pilots are (more often than not) cocksure garbage. So I was reticent. More on that later… That being said I love a fighter pilot […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: Amanda Page, cbr13bingo, fighter pilot, life imitates art, military romance, Romance

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Suspense · Tags: Amanda Page, cbr13bingo, fighter pilot, life imitates art, military romance, Romance ·
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A glimmer of hope to all the teens who are a little bit off…

The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle

September 7, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

Abelard and Lily are both neurodivergent. Abelard has Asperger’s and Lily has ADHD. Abelard fixes things and Lily destroys them.  After an awkward kiss, a trip to detention and with the aid of a worn copy The Letters of Abelard and Heloise the two fall hard for each other. I thought of Abelard, under the same anxious impulse to touch everything in the world of the here and now that we could feel with our hands. But unlike me, he was thinking about the hidden […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: ADHD, Asperger's, cbr13bingo, high school, Laura Creedle, young love

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: ADHD, Asperger's, cbr13bingo, high school, Laura Creedle, young love ·
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My hometown long before it was my hometown…

The Amazing Adventures of Aaron Broom by A.E. Hotchner

September 1, 2021 by chelz.hawk 2 Comments

“The people he was talking to, all around me, had lost everything, their houses, their jobs, their cars, I mean everything just like we did, and yet here they all were, having to live under the ramp of a bridge in dirty shacks, their bellies as empty as mine, huddled together, feeling good from listening to FDR, just like me, more of us no better of than we were when he got elected but when he says it’s all getting better we believe him, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: A.E. Hotchner, cbr13bingo, St. Louis, the great depression

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: A.E. Hotchner, cbr13bingo, St. Louis, the great depression ·
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Unfortunately, I am too firmly on Team Charles to really enjoy this…

Younger by Pamela Redmond Satran

Older by Pamela Redmond

August 20, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

“How are you going to be come a brand-new person if you keep acting like your same old self?”   “That was an aspect of youth I didn’t think, no matter how good my makeup or my acting skills, I’d be able to reclaim: the belief that if you were smart or ambitious enough, you could make your life turn out exactly as you wanted.” Fresh from her divorce—40 Something Alice needs to rejoin the workforce. Twenty years of being a stay at home mom […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adapted into TV, cbr13bingo, double life, Pamela Redmond, Pamela Redmond Satran, publishing industry

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adapted into TV, cbr13bingo, double life, Pamela Redmond, Pamela Redmond Satran, publishing industry ·
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Obama and Biden—but they fight crime.

Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer

Hope Rides Again by Andrew Shaffer

August 19, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

“Barack once told me that, at the end of the day, every one of us is just part of a long-running story. All we can do is try to get our paragraph right.” Joe Biden is lamenting the end of his bromance with former President Obama, the man himself shows up at his house, lurking in the shadows to inform him his address was found in the pocket of a body hit by an Amtrak train. With an unrelenting need for justice, Amtrak Joe sets […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Andrew Shaffer, Barack Obama, Crime Fighting, Joe Biden

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Andrew Shaffer, Barack Obama, Crime Fighting, Joe Biden ·
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