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What a difference two years makes…

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

August 6, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith 1 Comment

How in the heck was this written a mere two years after Solitaire!? They legitimately feel as if they were written by different authors, or at least by Oseman at polar opposite points in here career. Maybe it’s largely the subject matter informing that statement, as we don’t have the absolutely insufferable main character or outlandish side-plot or all the stuff that should’ve come with a content warning. It does make for a lighter read overall, more in line with the rest of her work. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alice oseman, asexual, Radio Silence

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: alice oseman, asexual, Radio Silence ·
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Yes, yes, we see what you did there…

Loveless by Alice Oseman

July 27, 2022 by Travis_J_Smith 7 Comments

Given the author, I was expecting this to fall somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum, going so far as to ask my fiancee which character(s) on the dust jacket she thought would be on it, but I must say I was surprised to find out where exactly on that spectrum our main character Georgia wound up falling. I knew almost instantly where Oseman was going with it, from the moment Georgia was repulsed by the people kissing around the fire, but naturally it took over half […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alice oseman, asexual, Loveless

Travis_J_Smith's CBR14 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: alice oseman, asexual, Loveless ·
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A doorway to a beautifully built new world

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

December 12, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

How do you care for your daughter after she returns from the Land of the Dead? If you’re Nancy’s parents, you take her to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. Thus begins Every Heart a Doorway. Nancy is delivered to her new home to get better when all she wants is to return to the world she stumbled upon years ago. As does everyone else under Eleanor’s care. She takes care of and helps those children who have crossed over to other worlds and want nothing […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: asexual, LGBTQIA, novella, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:72 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: asexual, LGBTQIA, novella, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children ·
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Trying to find a new read, I found this and a few things about me.

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

June 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I found out that Simon and Schuster can give you free eBooks! I can now get eBooks through a venue not NetGalley (as I have mentioned my woes with them before) even though I much prefer “the real deal” over online. I knew that most of these titles would not be at my library, and I would not want to own copies, therefore, this was a great way to read them. And when I saw the cover of Tash Hearts Tolstoy (a grumpy Tolstoy starring […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asexual, friendship, glbtq, K.E. Ormsbee, Kathryn Ormsbee, romantic asexual, Sexuality, siblings

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:167 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asexual, friendship, glbtq, K.E. Ormsbee, Kathryn Ormsbee, romantic asexual, Sexuality, siblings ·
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When a cog is broken, you throw it away.

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

April 2, 2021 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Keiko Furukura has been different her entire life, and she’s always to understand why she makes people uncomfortable. As a child, she found a dead bird and she brought it to her mother, who responded with sympathy and an offer to bury it. Keiko instead wanted to eat it. One day at school, two boys were fighting. Horrified, one of the girls screamed for someone to break them up, so Keiko grabbed a shovel and hit one of them over the head. And that was […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asexual, convenience store woman, hikikomori, incel, Japan, Sayaka Murata

ingres77's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asexual, convenience store woman, hikikomori, incel, Japan, Sayaka Murata ·
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“It is cause for celebration whenever anyone is, to the best of their ability, making their own choices free from pressure—and also working to change the social and political structures that will let everyone else have that same sexual freedom, and freedom of other kinds, too.”

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society & the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

November 24, 2020 by narfna 9 Comments

Quick review (ha! possible for me?) for a book that’s been holding up my review queue. This was an excellent book about what it means to be asexual, and how we think about sexuality in general. The best thing about it isn’t the way it explains asexuality, or the ace identity (which is extremely varied! as is all sexuality and forms of identity) but the way that it takes that premise and then opens it further. Chen posits that by acknowledging asexuality and striving to […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: ace, Angela Chen, asexual, asexual spectrum, compulsory sexuality, narfna, non fiction, Sexuality

narfna's CBR12 Review No:172 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ace, Angela Chen, asexual, asexual spectrum, compulsory sexuality, narfna, non fiction, Sexuality ·
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