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It was my birthday when I found out all the birds were electric.

American Grief in Four Stages by Sadie Hoagland

Shine of the Ever by Claire Rudy Foster

February 19, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

American Grief in Four Stages – 3/5 Stars I read this book in one go at the coffee shop. It’s short and small in size, so it lends itself to this kind of reading. The stories are not linked by common physical connections, but there’s some thematic elements that worm their way through a lot of the stories. A motif in this collective review, however, is where the marketing and positioning of the book get in the way of the book itself. That’s a failure […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: American Grief in Four Stages, Claire Rudy Foster, Sadie Hoagland, Shine of the Ever

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: American Grief in Four Stages, Claire Rudy Foster, Sadie Hoagland, Shine of the Ever ·
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Since I’ve returned from Russia a few weeks ago, I’ve been dreaming a lot.

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

February 18, 2020 by vel veeter 1 Comment

This is a collection of speeches and essays by Audre Lorde written across about a decade of her life and published around the time of her cancer diagnosis. The essays are primarily about the different manifestations and connection points that would later become known as intersectional feminism, and so much of this book is present and represented in the kinds of conversations about race and gender in various contemporary online circles. I also think it helps to create the logical, clear, thoughtful lines of argument […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:77 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider ·
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Thomas dreamed he walked a familiar forest, following a timeworn path of the Tuscaroras.

The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

February 18, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is one of those books I think I maybe read as a kid, but certainly would have loved had I read it. It’s a mystery, it involves history coming alive in various ways, it has secret passages, maybe ghosts, clues and symbols, and involves a kid getting to experience all these things at the center of everything. If you don’t know this one, a Black family moves to a large Victorian house in Ohio and learns that it was one of the waystations on […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: The house of dies drear, Virginia Hamilton

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:76 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: The house of dies drear, Virginia Hamilton ·
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Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hotel Meurice.

Clouds of Witness by Dorothy Sayers

February 18, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmm. Oh what’s wrong? Well, I will tell you. When I was in grad school I was taking a class called “The Inklings: Anti-Modernism” and I really liked it. One of the books we read was Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Night and it was fantastic. And I’ve been chasing that dragon ever since. I keep giving her earlier books a try, and I keep finding them lacking. So the case with this one is a problem across a few fields: one, I don’t […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Clouds of Witness, Dorothy Sayers

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:75 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Clouds of Witness, Dorothy Sayers ·
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Arf Arf Arf.

Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia

That was Awkward by Emily Flake

America is Immigrants by Sara Novic

A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities by Mady G and JR Zuckerberg

February 18, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Sacred Heart – 3/5 Stars This is a graphic novel takes place in a high school and is about a girl trying to figure out life, having weird interactions with the pretty trope heavy versions of fellow students, and more or less coming to some kinds of understandings. I have to emphasize with this book how bodily the art is. The art is very cartoony and rough-edged, and not in a kind of R Crumb way, but more so like webcomics. At the same time, […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities, America is Immigrants, Emily Flake, Just Enough, Liz Suburbia, Mady G and JR Zuckerberg, Sacred heart, Sara Nović, That was Awkward

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:74 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities, America is Immigrants, Emily Flake, Just Enough, Liz Suburbia, Mady G and JR Zuckerberg, Sacred heart, Sara Nović, That was Awkward ·
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From where he is standing across the street, Justyce can see her: Melo Taylor, ex-girlfriend, slumped over beside her Benz on the damp concrete of the FarmFresh parking lot.

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

February 18, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I really liked this book, and there were times throughout the audiobook where I was physically worried for the sake of the lead character. You can tell when a book is not going to allow its characters to be safe, and for me, this book felt that way because there was no humor in it. There’s a few little moments here and there, but this book treats its whole aura as deadly serious, which it is, but that also means no levity. So if I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dear Martin, nic stone

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:70 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dear Martin, nic stone ·
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