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Not great for class, but good to read

Messy Roots by Laura Gao

December 31, 2024 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

“Every time I struggled to fit into the world around me, I thought if I flew far away enough, like Chang’e, the perfect home would magically appear. But when your roots are tangled up across so many different places, that perfect world may not exist.” My school generally tries to have us read books in English class that are more accessible to people and that will make people more likely to actually read and enjoy, hence them having us read Messy Roots as part of […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Laura Gao

Bibliophile's CBR16 Review No:39 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: Laura Gao ·
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Final Reviews of the Year :)

Save Our Forest! by Nora Dasnes

Camp Prodigy by Caroline Palmer

Crush by Tegan Quin & Sara Quin (Words) and Tillie Walden (Art)

December 30, 2024 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

It’s probably fitting for me to wrap up the year with another middle grade graphic novel review roundup, considering how many comics I read this year. This was a good reading year for me overall, even with the gap during the summer for all the academic article/textbook I had to do. I think I was able to lean into reading for pleasure and having less stress about what specifically I was reading, and as a result I read a lot of things that I enjoyed […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Caroline Palmer, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ, middle grade, Nora Dåsnes, Tegan Quin & Sara Quin (Words) and Tillie Walden (Art)

GentleRain's CBR16 Review No:79 · Genres: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Caroline Palmer, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ, middle grade, Nora Dåsnes, Tegan Quin & Sara Quin (Words) and Tillie Walden (Art) ·
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“For I fear that the day when aliens reveal themselves to us fully will also become the first day of the end of life on Earth as we know it!”

UFO Mushroom Invasion by Shirakawa Marina

December 30, 2024 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

This is the second book in Ryan Holmberg’s imprint of classic SF/horror manga from the 1970s/80s. I will say I enjoyed Her Frankenstein better but I thought UFO Mushroom Invasion was also interesting and had some striking moments that made me glad I read this. I do understand that smaller print books tend to be more expensive because they have smaller print runs and tighter economics to work out, but $19.95 is a tough price point for me here considering that most manga is ranging […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Aliens, body horror, horror, manga, Shirakawa Marina, UFOs

GentleRain's CBR16 Review No:76 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Aliens, body horror, horror, manga, Shirakawa Marina, UFOs ·
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“He was a nobody. One of those shy kids who turned into social invalids when that first blast of adolescence hit, meekly accepted their fate, and became invisible.”

My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel by Derk Backderf

December 29, 2024 by cheerbrarian 2 Comments

On a whim I grabbed this graphic novel back in spooky season, aka October aka why yes I am behind on reviews but committed to finishing out reviwing all the books I read in 2024 before the year is up. BUCKLE UP FOR LOADS OF REVIEWS, COMING AT YA. But I digress onto this review! Sometimes I feel like an outlier as a 40ish woman who does not have an affinity for true crime podcasts. In my 20s and 30s I had a long relationship […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #memoir, Derk Backderf, Graphic Novel, my friend dahmer, serial killer, true crime

cheerbrarian's CBR16 Review No:43 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #memoir, Derk Backderf, Graphic Novel, my friend dahmer, serial killer, true crime ·
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should have waited for the Omnibus

White Sand Vol. 1 by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, Julius Gopez

White Sand Vol. by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, Julius Gopez

White Sand Vol. by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, Julius Gopez

December 27, 2024 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Volume 1 I suppose these are hard to write individually, since they form a cohesive three book arc—but, annoying, I can’t just say that I read the Omnibus edition because that is, in fact, a newly edited version that everyone says to read in lieu of reading the three individual volumes. I wish I had looked up this information ahead of time, but when I saw that the individual volumes were available at my various local public libraries but the omnibus was not, I thought […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, Julius Gopez, cosmere

wicherwill's CBR16 Review No:45 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, Julius Gopez, cosmere ·
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And they all fall down.

The Fall of the House of Usher: A Graphic Novel by Edgar Allen Poe and Raul Garcia

December 27, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

My 624 and a full 12 Cannonball review is actually one that is a bit lackluster. Now, I enjoy a good Edgar Allen Poe as much as the next English Major Casual Fan, but The Fall of the House of Usher: A Graphic Novel (adapted and illustrated by Raul Garcia) is not one of my favorites. However, as it is adapted into the graphic novel format, I felt it would be a better way to understand the story (The Lottery by Shirly Jackson has been […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: adaptations, edgar allen poe, Edgar Allen Poe and Raul Garcia, literary, Raul Garcia

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:624 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: adaptations, edgar allen poe, Edgar Allen Poe and Raul Garcia, literary, Raul Garcia ·
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