Review: cindy lou who - Sabrina Carpenter

★★★★★ - 5 stars

"There's red and green everywhere but I'm so blue, Cindy Lou Who"

Sabrina Carpenter's holiday themed EP, fruitcake, contains original stories of love and heartbreak, alongside a cover of Christmas classic, White Christmas. However, what is arguably the pinnacle of the whole six track collection, is Sabrina's somber song expressing the pain of heartbreak during such a cheerful time: cindy lou who. Imagery of Christmas, a time of joy and happiness, contrasts the theme of heartbreak and sorrow that flows throughout the lyrics. During the song, Cindy Lou Who, the heroine of Dr Seuss' timeless tale, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, represents the girl who has healed (and stolen) the heart of the boy she loved. The slow piano and violin set the melancholy mood of this tale of heartbreak, accompanying Sabrina's soulful and angelic vocals. A bittersweet reminder of the loneliness the holiday season can bring to many, cindy lou who is a beautifully heart-wrenching song to listen to this holiday season.

November..

Blog Tour + #Review: NUBIA: THE AWAKENING by Omar Epps and Clarence A. Haynes! #tbrbeyondtours

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the TBR and Beyond Tours blog tour for the YA novel from acclaimed actor Omar Epps and author Clarence A. Haynes, Nubia: The Awakening! I’ve got all the book and author details below, along with my review.

About the Book

title: Nubia: The Awakening authors: Omar Epps and Clarence A. Haynes publisher: Delacorte Press release date: 8 November 2022

From beloved actor and producer Omar Epps and writer Clarence A. Haynes comes the biggest epic fantasy of the year. A powerful saga of three teens, the children of refugees from a fallen African utopia, who must navigate their newfound powers in a climate-ravaged New York City. Perfect for fans of Black Panther and Children of Blood and Bone. For Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho, Nubia is a mystery. Before they were born, a massive storm destroyed their ancestral homeland, forcing their families to flee across the ocean to New York City. Nubia, a utopic island nation off the coast of West Africa, was no more, and their parents’ sorrow was too deep for them to share much of their history beyond the folklore. But New York, ravaged by climate change and class division, is far from a safe haven for refugees, and Nubians live as outcasts, struggling to survive in the constantly flooding lower half of Manhattan, while the rich thrive in the tech-driven sky city known as the Up High. To many, being Nubian means you’re fated for a life plagued by difficulties and disrespect. But Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho are beginning to feel there might be more. Something within them is changing, giving each of them extraordinary powers. Extraordinary and terrifying powers that seem to be tied to the secrets their parents have kept from them. And there are people Up High watching, eager to do anything they can to become even more powerful than they already are. Now Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho will be faced with the choice–do they use their inheritance to lift their people, or to leave them behind. The fate of their city, and their people, hangs in the balance. 

Content Warning: Violence, death, domestic abuse, brief mention of sexual assault

Add to Goodreads: Nubia: The Awakening Purchase the Book: Amazon | B&N | TBD | Indigo | Indiebound

About the Authors

Actor and producer Omar Epps was first introduced to audiences as Q in Ernest Dickerson’s cult classic Juice, opposite Tupac Shakur. He has gone on to star in the beloved romance Love & Basketball, as Dr. Eric Foreman in the massively popular TV show House, as Jeff Cole in In Too Deep, as Isaac Johnson in Shooter, as Darnell in This Is Us, and in many many more television shows and major motion pictures. His self-published memoir is From Fatherless to Fatherhood. Nubia: The Awakening is his first novel.

Connect with Omar: Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | IMDB

Clarence A. Haynes has worked as an editor for a variety of publishers that include Penguin Random House and Amazon Publishing as well as Legacy Lit, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. He has edited top-selling fiction titles like The Hundredth Queen, Scarlet Odyssey, Legacy of Lies, These Toxic Things, and The Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller The Vine Witch, along with its two sequels. He is also the author of the nonfiction work The Legacy of Jim Crow, published as part of Penguin Workshop’s True History series.

Connect with Clarence: Instagram | Goodreads | Facebook

My 3-Star Review

I’ve been so excited for Nubia: The Awakening since I first heard about it. I’m a huge fan of Omar Epps and was excited to see what he and Clarence Haynes had come up with in this afro-futurist YA novel. While I enjoyed it, it was definitely a case of wanting to love it more than I actually did.

This novel deals with some important societal topics: racism, classism, climate change, oligarchy, and over-policing. It was interesting to see these dealt with in a near-future society. In a lot of ways, on the surface this book reminded me of Ballad & Dagger by Daniel Jose Older: near-future or alternate timeline NYC, refugees from an African or Afro-Caribbean island that no longer exists, parents who refuse to talk about where they came from, and teens discovering they have magical powers connected to that disappeared home. Unfortunately, in this book the pacing was off in a way I find hard to describe, and it’s still unclear exactly what these magical powers are. I liked the MCs, though, and the way the novel alternated between the three POVs of Zuberi, Lencho, and Uzochi. I’m hoping the second book will explain and expound on what the teens can and/or should do with their newly-found powers.

Rating: 3 stars

**Disclosure: I received an eARC of this book for purposes of this blog tour. This review is voluntary on my part and reflects my honest rating and review of the book.

November Releases

Even as we approach the end of the year, there are still so many books we cannot wait to be released.

Click here to see a few we are excited about this November.

The most anticipated films arriving in November and promising to be a great success

The most anticipated films arriving in November and promising to be a great success

The most anticipated films arriving in November and shaping up to be a great success – Courtesy (Netflix) 2022 is about to end, but before it ends there are several film to be released in November and that are shaping up to be a great success, not only at the box office as “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”, but also on streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Black Panther:…

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On this day, November 22

In 2010: My Chemical Romance released their fourth studio album, "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys". (🖤)

Stream "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys" here!

r/dragonage (Reddit) post titled "Jeff Grubb: Dragon Age: Dreadwolf scheduled to release in late 2024." Post text: "Dreadwolf to be shown this summer and planned release later this year, Bioware is internally confident on the release date. Anything could change of course." Source: [link] Clip: [link] "Credit to: u/IcePopsicleDragon for posting this in r/GamingLeaksAndRumours."

[source]

In episode 339 of Game Mess Decides, Jeff Grubb had the following to say on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf's possible/rumored release window [transcript]:

Question from chat: “Hi Jeff and Mike, when will Dragon Age 4 be shown and released?” Jeff: “Yeah, I mean, I expect it will probably pop up this summer. I don’t know when it’ll be shown is the real answer, that’s the, let’s get that out, I don’t know when it will be shown. I assume it will be shown sometime this summer. Could happen at any time though. It will be released this year [2024], last I heard. That is, and they’re pretty confident about that, doesn’t mean it’s a guarantee, could slip, but right now, internally, they expect to release it later this year, which is why I took it in Fantasy Critic”.

[source (timestamp 35 mins 20 secs), clipped version]

(there were no more mentions of Dragon Age or BioWare during the episode)

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Today (November 9) was my birthday

This is what my spouse got me as a gift:

I am absolutely fucking delighted. I am blown away. I can't even take her out of the box she's so perfect I don't want to ruin her

Wake up babe, we're feral spn posting on main.

Carrie (1976) directed by Brian De Palma 

the main reason why i literally don’t care about anything less than continuity in the x files is because so many of the things they did were just for vibes. why was mulder colorblind in one episode and then never again? for the vibes. why was mulder afraid of fire in one episode and then never again? for the vibes. why was it snowing in north carolina in spring at mulder’s funeral? for the vibes. so a 20-something girl could write prose fic about it being fitting that the ground was hard and unrelenting as he was lowered into it. is that not enough????

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On this day, November 22

In 2010: My Chemical Romance released their EP "The Mad Gear and Missile Kid", alongside the album "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys". (🖤)

Stream "The Mad Gear and Missile Kid" here!