Gabby Rivera – Cannonball Read 17

It was indeed a fresh breath

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

March 8, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

A recommendation by polyesque! I ended up liking this but I not loving it! I think part of that could have been alleviated by my figuring out a bit sooner that this book was taking place much earlier than I thought it did–perhaps the lack of cell phones should have done it, but I spent a good portion thinking that Juliet was in the 2020s or maybe the 2010s, which gives a very different veneer to many of the ideas that she’s encountering. The author’s […]

A Breath of Fresh, Fierce, Queer Air

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

January 27, 2021 by Polyesque 4 Comments

From the first time I heard author Gabby Rivera’s laugh and her description of her book on Brene Brown’s podcast “Unlocking Us”, I knew I had to read Rivera’s debut novel “Juliet Takes a Breath”. After a mix-up at the local bookshop where I ordered it from was cleared up (they handed me the graphic novel and not the hardcover I ordered – and I have nothing against graphic novels, I just wanted to read all of her words first), I went home and devoured […]

Just breathe, Juliet, just breathe

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

December 17, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera has been on my radar for awhile now. However, it always seemed daunting. Perhaps it was the subject, perhaps the length of the book itself or just the fact I am not in an actual novel reading mood this year. Therefore, when I saw that it was going to be in a graphic novel format, I preordered my copy. It was going to be illustrated by Celia Moscote (an illustrator I was unfamiliar with), but the cover gave […]

Ain’t No Party Like an Octavia Butler Writer’s Workshop

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

December 30, 2019 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

Though my life growing up as a heterosexual, cis-gender white woman in the Midwest is worlds away from that of Juliet Milagros Palante, who describes herself as a “closeted Puerto Rican baby-dyke from the Bronx”(5), I think anyone with a heart and a soul can relate to this coming of age story. Even more importantly, everyone can learn from it. The year is 2003 and 19-year-old Juliet is about to spend a chunk of her first summer home from college far away from her Bronx […]

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