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We Create Our Own Monsters

Carrie by Stephen King

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

October 1, 2023 by RevGirlUtena Leave a Comment

Carrie Carrie White is a high-school student who is an outcast. She lives with her religious fanatic of a mother and is very much alone. One day, while taking a shower in gym class, she gets her first period. Since her mother never taught her about the menstrual cycle, she thinks she is dying and starts hysterically screaming and crying. The other girls find this hilarious and start throwing pads and tampons at her, jeering to “plug it up”. Then suddenly, a lightbulb explodes. The […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr15 bingo, cbr15bingo, Stephen King, Tiffany D. Jackson, YA

RevGirlUtena's CBR15 Review No:58 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror, Young Adult · Tags: cbr15 bingo, cbr15bingo, Stephen King, Tiffany D. Jackson, YA ·
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So Many Ideas and Questions about Year 2 at Riverdale Academy Day School

Class Act by Jerry Craft

September 30, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Class Act continues the story of the Riverdale Academy Day School gang, but emphasizes Drew’s experiences a bit more and it also starts to include other challenges of growing up, particularly physical and emotional/relationship maturity. It is now eight grade, so the group is in their second year together. In a lot of ways, there’s a lot more going on here in volume 2, both story and meaning-wise. In the previous volume that focuses on Jordan, Drew is a fellow student of color, but instead […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: cbrbookclub, Class Act, Comics, coming-of-age, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:80 · Genres: Book Club, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: cbrbookclub, Class Act, Comics, coming-of-age, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, YA ·
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This one summer book cover

“Don’t worry about any of this stuff, okay? It’s all just adult junk that doesn’t mean anything.”

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki

September 29, 2023 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

This One Summer is a re-read for me. It is also the book I have read in the past few years specifically from the Banned Book List put out by the ALA that makes me scratch my head the most. It is because this is the book that hit #1 most challenged in 2016 and was why I read it in 2017. It then came back to the top ten in 2018. It did not make sense to me then, and it makes little sense […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: Banned and Challenged, banned book week, Banned Graphic Novels, CannonBookClub, cbr15bingo, children's fiction, Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki, sex, This One Summer, YA

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:24 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: Banned and Challenged, banned book week, Banned Graphic Novels, CannonBookClub, cbr15bingo, children's fiction, Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki, sex, This One Summer, YA ·
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Clueless Romance in a World Where Nice and Smart Can’t Co-Exist

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! v.8 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

September 16, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 21: Sex So, when the main character of a fantasy romance game whose regained her memories of a past of life of being a modern mundane teen has absolutely no concept of sex at the age of 17, and everyone around her does, it makes for some mild cringe, but mostly entertaining hijinks. By this point in the manga, Katarina has managed to make her fiancée the Prince fall for her and express his desire (totally confounds her, an she pretends it didn’t happen), […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr15bingo, isekai, manga, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Nami Hidaka, Romance, Satoru Yamaguchi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:76 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, cbr15bingo, isekai, manga, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Nami Hidaka, Romance, Satoru Yamaguchi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka, YA ·
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Fantasy shouldn’t make you feel your early middle age

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

September 16, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 20: Africa Children of Blood and Bone fits kind of into the Afro-futurism arena, and it’s also based on West African folklore/mythology and takes place is an African-esque setting. I was intrigued by the worldbuilding and some of the characters were interesting, but the plot and two of the three main characters were stupid teenagers making cringe-worthy teen angsty kinds of decisions. I know this is YA, but it’s kind of making me feel my age (barely 40+) a little. Zelie and her brother […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, afro-futurism, cbr15bingo, children of blood and bone, tomi adeyemi, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:75 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, afro-futurism, cbr15bingo, children of blood and bone, tomi adeyemi, YA ·
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Gay-Lesbian Solidarity

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

September 16, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR 15 Bingo – Queer Lives: Both the main characters in this book are queer, and one of the major plot-lines concerns itself with what must change in society for them to live their lives openly. Hundreds of years after the time of Arthur Pendragon, his descendent Arthur Delacey is betrothed to Gwen, the princess of England. If only she wasn’t more interested in the only female knight in the realm; if only he wasn’t more interested in her brother… I picked up this book because […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, ARC, Arthurian, cbr15bingo, historical, Lex Croucher, lgbt, NetGalley, queer, Romance, YA

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:65 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, ARC, Arthurian, cbr15bingo, historical, Lex Croucher, lgbt, NetGalley, queer, Romance, YA ·
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