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Women Who Kill by Sarah Tanat-Jones

April 16, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Women Who Kill by Sarah Tanat-Jones has its pros and cons. The biggest cons are the triggers. I took this from another review: use of the words ‘trans*xual’ and ‘transv*stite’ instead of transgender, mentions of rape & sexual abuse, violence, death.  Now I take issue with the use of death as it’s a book about women killers, and therefore, death is implied. However, it is the way that some deaths are mentioned or who the victims were that I am assuming they are referencing.  Afterall, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: murders, Sarah Tanat-Jones, social science, true crime, women's studies

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:160 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: murders, Sarah Tanat-Jones, social science, true crime, women's studies ·
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To be or not to be is a very personal question

I Don’t Want to Be a Mom by Irene Olmo

October 23, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When I saw the title of this graphic novel by Irene Olmo, I Don’t Want to Be a Mom I assumed a few things. The first, due to the cover  (which I thought was a young girl who did not want to grow up to be a mom), was that she was a trans man. But then I thought she was a lesbian and had some wrong idea they do not become mothers. Or even that she was asexual, had a bad mother herself, or […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Romance Tagged With: family, Irene Olmo, Kendra Boileau, Motherhood, Parenting, Relationships, Social Themes, women's studies

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:767 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Romance · Tags: family, Irene Olmo, Kendra Boileau, Motherhood, Parenting, Relationships, Social Themes, women's studies ·
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Then you shoulda put a ring on it (or not)

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

September 3, 2019 by cosbrarian 3 Comments

#cbr11bingo – Not My Wheelhouse My usual reading is children and teen fiction or comic books, so I figured adult non-fiction would be a good opposite for me.  But in order to get through that I did pick a subject I am interested in. I have been quite single for most of my life, and lately I’ve been feeling particularly odd-woman out amongst my throngs of married friends and acquaintances.  I tried Kate Bolick’s Spinster and sort of hated it.  But this one held more promise […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, feminism, non fiction, Rebecca Traister, single life, Women's History, women's issues, women's studies

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:59 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, feminism, non fiction, Rebecca Traister, single life, Women's History, women's issues, women's studies ·
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Yes, the Title IS Quite a Mouthful

I thought It Was Just Me (But it Isn't): The Journey From "What Will People Think?" to " I Am Enough." by Brené Brown

August 28, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

Technically this is a “Did Not Finish” because my library loan expired when I was about 30 pages from the end and I’m not going to bother re-borrowing it, mainly because I was so close to the end I’m certain I have gotten everything out of the book that I was going to get.  It’s fine. It’ll probably do more for some other folks, but for me it was fine. Self-help books like this usually aren’t my thing, but this is part of what I […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Brené Brown, cbr11bingo, non fiction, Not My Wheelhouse, women's studies

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:22 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Brené Brown, cbr11bingo, non fiction, Not My Wheelhouse, women's studies ·
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