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So Many Ideas and Questions about Year 2 at Riverdale Academy Day School

Class Act by Jerry Craft

September 30, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Class Act continues the story of the Riverdale Academy Day School gang, but emphasizes Drew’s experiences a bit more and it also starts to include other challenges of growing up, particularly physical and emotional/relationship maturity. It is now eight grade, so the group is in their second year together. In a lot of ways, there’s a lot more going on here in volume 2, both story and meaning-wise. In the previous volume that focuses on Jordan, Drew is a fellow student of color, but instead […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: cbrbookclub, Class Act, Comics, coming-of-age, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:80 · Genres: Book Club, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: cbrbookclub, Class Act, Comics, coming-of-age, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, YA ·
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Reminder! The Banned Graphic Novels #CannonBookClub is Coming Soon – October 6 & 7!

September 29, 2023 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Banned Graphic Novel Book Club Discussion Now Open – Join us today for the discussion! Hello my lovely fellow Cannonballers! We are a week away from this year’s Banned Graphic Novels Book Club! (Did September get away from anyone else? Just me?) We’ll be discussing Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe, Class Act by Jerry Craft, and This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki with topics ranging from  how the art in each book impacted the meaning-making, to how much ‘explicit’ content is really present […]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: banned books week, Banned Graphic Novels, CannonBookClub, Class Act, Gender Queer, Reminder Post, This One Summer

Genres: Book Club · Tags: banned books week, Banned Graphic Novels, CannonBookClub, Class Act, Gender Queer, Reminder Post, This One Summer ·
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CBR15 Bingo: Hold Steady (my first actual Bingo!)

Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovski

September 2, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR15 Bingo: Hold Steady (Wren is in quite a rut at the start of the book) Official book description: Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. Morning brings the inevitable Oh God What Did I Do?, but he brushes that panic aside. Why stress about it? None of his could-have-beens are actually going to read […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, CBR15, cbr15bingo, Contemporary Romance, Hold Steady, LGBTQIA, Malin, never been kissed, New Adult, Timothy Janovski, Timothy Janovsky

Malin's CBR15 Review No:41 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, CBR15, cbr15bingo, Contemporary Romance, Hold Steady, LGBTQIA, Malin, never been kissed, New Adult, Timothy Janovski, Timothy Janovsky ·
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CBR15 Bingo: Edibles

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

August 11, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR15 Bingo: Edibles (this book features both a lot of food and quite a few drugs) Lila Macapagal used to live in Chicago and dreamed of opening her own restaurant, but both her business and relationship failed miserably. She’s back in her hometown, helping to run her tita (aunt) Rosie run the family restaurant, where they serve Philipino food. Unfortunately, Lila’s ex-boyfriend is a food critic and seems determined to come back, again and again, to sample the food and write scathing things about the […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #food, CBR Book Club, CBR15, cbr15bingo, contemporary fiction, cozy, drugs, Malin, Mia P. Manansala, mystery, Philipino Americans, Tita Rosie's Kitchen

Malin's CBR15 Review No:40 · Genres: Book Club, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #food, CBR Book Club, CBR15, cbr15bingo, contemporary fiction, cozy, drugs, Malin, Mia P. Manansala, mystery, Philipino Americans, Tita Rosie's Kitchen ·
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Banned Graphic Novels #CannonBookClub

#CannonBookClub October Book Club Announcement

July 27, 2023 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

Banned Graphic Novel Book Club Discussion Now Open – Join us today for the discussion! Last year when we decided to have a Banned Books Book Club the timing felt right – it was the 40th anniversary of the creation of Banned Books Week and nationally we were seeing an uptick in challenges against books for a variety of reasons. The uptick turned out to be a tidal wave unprecedented since ALA started keeping statistics – 2022 had the highest number of challenges ever and […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, News from MsWas Tagged With: Banned and Challenged, banned books week, CannonBookClub, graphic memoir, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, Jillian Tamaki, Maia Kobabe, Mariko Tamaki

Genres: Book Club, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, News from MsWas · Tags: Banned and Challenged, banned books week, CannonBookClub, graphic memoir, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, Jillian Tamaki, Maia Kobabe, Mariko Tamaki ·
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Hot Fun in the Summertime (#CannonBookClub, June 2023) Discussion Post—Romance Edition

June 23, 2023 by elisamaza76 9 Comments

(You know, you should probably also check out the discussion post for our Hot Fun in the Summertime cozy mystery selection, Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala.) The Romance Extravanga Whether you’re a returning CannonBookClub participant or a newbie, welcome! This is the place to discuss the three (count-em, THREE) Hot Fun in the Summertime romance selections. You don’t have to be registered for CBR15 to comment below, but there are a few ground rules: The topics are numbered, so please refer to them […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: CannonBookClub, Kate Clayborn, mental health rep, New Adult Romance, Queer characters, Talia Hibbert, Timothy Janovsky, YA Romance

Genres: Book Club, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: CannonBookClub, Kate Clayborn, mental health rep, New Adult Romance, Queer characters, Talia Hibbert, Timothy Janovsky, YA Romance ·
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