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Kind of wondering what Queenie would think of current events?

Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams

June 5, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle-class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: candace carty-williams, cbr12, contemporary fiction, feminism, Malin, Mental Health, queenie, Racism

Malin's CBR12 Review No:25 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: candace carty-williams, cbr12, contemporary fiction, feminism, Malin, Mental Health, queenie, Racism ·
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Desperate for answers, I tore through this book – and then there were no answers.

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

April 22, 2020 by pineolliepple Leave a Comment

Desperate for answers, I pretty much blocked out the world to finish this book as fast as I could – and then there were no answers. Susan Choi as an author is a neutral higher power who knows what you want and then calmly chooses not to give it to you, leaving you spinning in place and trying dumbly to figure out what on earth just happened. “Think, use your brain, you’ve got this.” This makes it sound like I disliked the book. I did […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: contemporary fiction, Fiction, high school, susan choi

pineolliepple's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: contemporary fiction, Fiction, high school, susan choi ·
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“When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.”

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

February 28, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Official book description: August Pullman wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside. But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: adapted into film, bullying, cbr12, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, deformity, friendship, Malin, middle grade, R.J. Palacio, Wonder, Young Adult

Malin's CBR12 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: adapted into film, bullying, cbr12, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, deformity, friendship, Malin, middle grade, R.J. Palacio, Wonder, Young Adult ·
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Cover of the book I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

Stories from the 1% (no not THAT one)

I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

February 11, 2020 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Recently I was lucky to present at our state comic con on Teen Girls in Space, and one of the focuses of my panel contributions was diversity in pop culture. I got to really dig into the still terrible statistics of representation in literature and media, and while it was nice to see the numbers getting better, all in all it is a “long way to go” situation – unsurprising to any Pajiban and Cannonballer, I am sure. Of the many major bummers, one super-major […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: American Indian, children's book, children's lit, christine day, contemporary fiction, duwamish nation, middle grade, Multigenerational, Native American, suquamish nation

cosbrarian's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: American Indian, children's book, children's lit, christine day, contemporary fiction, duwamish nation, middle grade, Multigenerational, Native American, suquamish nation ·
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Losing It book cover

The Twenty-Six Year Old Virgin

Losing It by Emma Rathbone

December 20, 2019 by Halbs Leave a Comment

I’m a sucker for coming of age stories, and I’ve read and watched a lot of them, but the premise for this one brings an unexpected combination of things: A woman in her mid-twenties, formerly a collegiate swimmer, can’t figure out her life so she moves to SEC-country to live with a plate-painting aunt and to lose her virginity. It goes ok. The protagonist is Julia Greenfield, the kind of character that might live in Stars Hollow or the dorm in Undeclared. She’s drifting through […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: contemporary fiction, Emma Rathbone, sex

Halbs's CBR11 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: contemporary fiction, Emma Rathbone, sex ·
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I would probably have liked this better if the protagonist was the sister

The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler

December 7, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival. One June day, an old book arrives on Simon’s doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: cbr11, Circus, contemporary fiction, curses, erika swyler, fortune telling, historical fiction, magical realism, Malin, the book of speculation

Malin's CBR11 Review No:84 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: cbr11, Circus, contemporary fiction, curses, erika swyler, fortune telling, historical fiction, magical realism, Malin, the book of speculation ·
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