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“If a book is well-written, I always find it too short”

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

November 7, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars CBR17 Bingo: Black (a book with a black cover) I had completely forgotten that I read and reviewed this book back in 2016. My original review can be found here. My plot summary of the more than 200-year-old novel can be found in my previous review. Nevertheless, my reading experience this time around was different enough from earlier times that I wanted to write about some of my thoughts and observations, not to mention some of the points of discussion that came up during my […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: adapted into TV and film, audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, coming-of-age, family drama, historical fiction, Jane Austen, literary classic, Malin, re-read, Regency, romantic, Rosamund Pike, sense and sensibility, Sisters, social satire, the Dark Corner

Malin's CBR17 Review No:66 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: adapted into TV and film, audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, coming-of-age, family drama, historical fiction, Jane Austen, literary classic, Malin, re-read, Regency, romantic, Rosamund Pike, sense and sensibility, Sisters, social satire, the Dark Corner ·
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PUUUUNK!

Be Your Own Backing Band by Liz Prince

October 29, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The author, Liz Prince, has become a reading staple of late. I have read most (if not all) that is  out there (minus a few things she just illustrated). But when I got Be Your Own Backing Band, I felt that Prince might have had one of her best collections yet. But then again, she could probably write a phone book and I would read it. After I finished, I said, “Keep on coming with the cool and goodness!” This is a look at how […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: coming-of-age, Liz Prince, music, paranormal, Punk rock musicians, siblings, Sisters

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:483 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: coming-of-age, Liz Prince, music, paranormal, Punk rock musicians, siblings, Sisters ·
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Dance Dance Dance….

Emma & Capucine, Volume 1 by Jérôme Hamon and Lena Sayaphoum

September 18, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While I enjoyed reading the two parts that are inclined in  Emma & Capucine, Volume 1 by Jérôme Hamon and Lena Sayaphoum, I was not able to be WOWed by it. There is nothing new to the events or thoughts happening. However, it is still a nice coming of age story Part One. We deal with growing apart from an older sibling, dealing with a dream not happening, finding new dreams, parents learning to support rather than push for themselves, and jealousy. There are at […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Sports, Young Adult Tagged With: ballett, coming-of-age, Coming-of-age comics, Dance, family, France, friendship, hip-hop dance, Jérôme Hamon, Jérôme Hamon and Lena Sayaphoum, Lena Sayaphoum, manga, mothers, paris, Paris (France), Performing art, siblings, Sisters, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:409 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: ballett, coming-of-age, Coming-of-age comics, Dance, family, France, friendship, hip-hop dance, Jérôme Hamon, Jérôme Hamon and Lena Sayaphoum, Lena Sayaphoum, manga, mothers, paris, Paris (France), Performing art, siblings, Sisters, Social Themes ·
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What would you do for your sister?

A Friend for Lucy by Jen-Ai Elena Molineaux

August 20, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When I started to write this review, I had eaten too much sugar. I was on a bit of a sugar-high-buzz that was making me a bit too “up” and slightly feeling off. So, I was nervous this book would be too sweetly reviewed or I would maybe dwell too much on how sweet it was. After all, A Friend for Lucy by Jen-Ai Elena Molineaux is a sweet book. It is also a clever story of friendship between different generations and how family can […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Suspense Tagged With: friendship, Ghost Stories, Jen-Ai Elena Molineaux, siblings, Sisters

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:370 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Suspense · Tags: friendship, Ghost Stories, Jen-Ai Elena Molineaux, siblings, Sisters ·
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Copy of Blue Sisters, which has the painted face of a woman, on a table with an iced coffee

“This modern love breaks me”

Blue Sisters (2024) by Coco Mellors

May 26, 2025 by drmllz Leave a Comment

Blue Sisters is about four sisters–except Nicky, the youngest, is dead, and Avery (the eldest organised lawyer one), Lucky (the beautiful model and self-destructive drug-addled party girl), and Bonnie (the sporty one), are flailing, a year on. There is some nuance here–Avery is a former heroin addict about to blow her perfect marriage and house in Hampstead Heath apart; Lucky plays guitar. Bonnie, most intriguingly, is a boxer, and Mellors’s descriptions of her physicality are some of the best passages in the novel: Your knuckles, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17, Coco Mellors, contemporary fiction, drmllz, Fiction, Sisters, women writers

drmllz's CBR17 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17, Coco Mellors, contemporary fiction, drmllz, Fiction, Sisters, women writers ·
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Honey I Shrunk the Sleepover and found a magical artifact

Forsynthia V02: The Shrink Ray Sleepover by Rachel DiNunzio

May 7, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A while back, I found Forsynthia V01: Rise of the Cupcakes  by Rachel DiNunzio in an online reader copy. I was blown away. I thought it was one of the most fun, cute, silly, adorable, graphic novels I had seen. It was “spooky” as we had to fight attacking cupcakes, but it was sweet (not just because of the cupcakes) but because it was funny, clever and the family dynamic was perfect. The sisters get along. The parents are modern and caring (if maybe a […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery Tagged With: dragons, family, friendship, grandmothers, parents, Rachel DiNunzio, science, Sisters, sleepovers, treasure hunting

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:241 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery · Tags: dragons, family, friendship, grandmothers, parents, Rachel DiNunzio, science, Sisters, sleepovers, treasure hunting ·
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