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true story: my parents were called in for a meeting with the guidance counselor when I wrote a poem about bog sacrifices in third grade

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

February 11, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

…which I learned about from reading Spider magazine. Ghost Wall kicks off with a young woman being led to the peaty gloom before snapping back to a modern teenager forced to reenact the Iron Age with her father and the massive chip on his shoulder. Clocking in at a mere 130 pages, Ghost Wall bridges the expanse from ancient Britons to bored college students. Sarah Moss’s prose is sparse but lush; months worth of meditations shift and shimmer through the fog of just 130 pages.   A theme reigns supreme throughout […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: abuse, Acient Britons, coming-of-age, femininity, historical reenactment, inferiority complex, iron age, pre-christian, ritual, Ritual Sacrifice, sarah moss, tradition

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR11 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: abuse, Acient Britons, coming-of-age, femininity, historical reenactment, inferiority complex, iron age, pre-christian, ritual, Ritual Sacrifice, sarah moss, tradition ·
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Five stars with some qualifications for this White Whale book.

It by Stephen King

February 6, 2019 by narfna 14 Comments

Well, I did it. I did It. (I’m sure this is adding so much to the ongoing pun-based conversation surrounding this book.) I started this book on January 22nd, and finished it on January 30th. That is a long time to read a book for me, especially at the beginning of the year, when I like to get my momentum up and running with shorter, exciting books. But I’m doing the whole TBR Jar thing this year, and I pulled It out almost immediately. When […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: coming-of-age, doorstoppers, horror, It, narfna, Stephen King

narfna's CBR11 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: coming-of-age, doorstoppers, horror, It, narfna, Stephen King ·
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Poetic feels

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

December 29, 2018 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo is a coming of age story written in poetic verse. Xiomara Batista attends Catholic high school and forced by her mom to attend catechism classes. Her mom has a very strict idea of what her daughter should be. Boys are definitely off limits. Thus, she pours all her teenage angst into her prized notebook. Also lots of feelings about her classmate named Aman. It’s only when she joins the poetry club does she begin to find her voice. Unfortunately, she […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: book club read, coming-of-age, elizabeth acevedo, latina author, Latinx, latinx author, latinx poetry, poetry, Teen Angst, the poet x

teresaelectro's CBR10 Review No:17 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: book club read, coming-of-age, elizabeth acevedo, latina author, Latinx, latinx author, latinx poetry, poetry, Teen Angst, the poet x ·
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#CBR10Bingo: Home, Something, Home (double Bingo!)

November 21, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR10Bingo: Home, Something, Home (this book is set at Stovner in Oslo, three stops away from where I live on the metro. It also concerns exactly the sort of pupils that I teach.) Two youths, both living in the same tower block in a suburb on the east side of Oslo, in Stovner (where the large majority of inhabitants are immigrants or the children of immigrants). They start out going to the same high school. Starting in the year 2000, the framing device consists of these […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, home something home, Immigration, Malin, Norwegian, poverty, Racism, Tante Ulrikkes vei, Zeshan Shakar

Malin's CBR10 Review No:99 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, home something home, Immigration, Malin, Norwegian, poverty, Racism, Tante Ulrikkes vei, Zeshan Shakar ·
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#CBR10Bingo: Snubbed – This One Summer (Bingo nr 4)

October 30, 2018 by Malin 2 Comments

#CBR10Bingo: Snubbed- it won the Eisner Award in 2015, but was also nominated for a whole host of other things that it lost out on. Every summer Rose and her parents go to Arwago Beach. They have their set rituals and it’s Rose’s favourite time of the year. Her friend Windy is also there, and she and Rose are inseparable all summer. Something is different this year, though. There’s a tension between Rose’s parents and they keep fighting when they think Rose can’t hear them. For […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, coming-of-age, friendship, Graphic Novel, Jillian Tamaki, Malin, Mariko Tamaki, Mathildehoeg, snubbed, This One Summer

Malin's CBR10 Review No:93 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, coming-of-age, friendship, Graphic Novel, Jillian Tamaki, Malin, Mariko Tamaki, Mathildehoeg, snubbed, This One Summer ·
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“Everything feels yes.”

May 3, 2018 by narfna 8 Comments

I thought this was lovely, and I’m so glad I picked it up on a whim. I really only have two complaints. I had such a good time reading it, I put it on my wishlist immediately, and can see myself upping this to five stars in the future when maybe those complaints won’t matter as much to me. This is a young adult coming of age romance between two boys. One (Tanner) is a bisexual eighteen-year old whose family moved to Provo, Utah when […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: autoboyography, Christina Lauren, coming-of-age, contemporary, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA romance, m/m, narfna, romance, Young Adult

narfna's CBR10 Review No:55 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: autoboyography, Christina Lauren, coming-of-age, contemporary, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA romance, m/m, narfna, romance, Young Adult ·
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