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Mom to a wild-haired three-year-old spitfire. Wife to a genius. I spend my time finding sippies, tripping over dogs, and putting out fires.

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“Health and dignity are indissociable in human beings.”

Beating Back the Devil by Maryn McKenna

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It’s hard for me to gauge exactly how interesting a book like this may be to someone else, because when asked about my fantasy dream career, I say epidemiologist. And not the fun kind – the data wonk kind. I think objectively, this book is objectively “exciting” if you have a tolerance for fairly dry excitement, and a lot of details on slow, frustrating, painstaking searches for pathogens, outbreaks, sources of contamination, and underlying causes of the things that plague us. Despite the rather dramatic title, there are probably more thrilling books on the topic, but if you have any […]

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4/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

“…Let me assure you, Lula – nobody’s normal.”

Weird Girl and What's His Name by Meagan Brothers

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I was so reluctant to start this book. The cover just screams “twee” and “manic pixie dream girl” but someone here, who knows who, had written a sufficiently glowing review that it made it to my TBR list and well – there are rules. Once it’s on the TBR, I have to at least try it. But believe me, I wouldn’t have otherwise. And man would I have missed out. Weird Girl and What’s His Name is such a sweet, tender, funny book. The pace doesn’t exactly gallop along but it doesn’t even matter. Lula and Rory are so real […]

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2/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

There’s a reason my “permission to DNF” system exists.

Why Can't I Be You by Allie Larkin

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An ISTJ through and through, I have some rules for myself and books. Sort of a flow chart type of deal. If it ends up on my Goodreads to-read list for some reason (intriguing CBR review, loved another of the author’s books so much I added their entire catalog to the list, it looked interesting at a bookstore, recommendation from my Granny), it will be checked out from the library (if you think I don’t have a system for randomizing which one’s up next, you’ve never met an ISTJ). Even if I can’t remember why the hell it would’ve ever […]

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11/29/2017 's CBR9 Review No:39 |

She was the first beautiful thing I ever got stuck on.

Our Numbered Days by Neil Hilborn

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Is it me, or is obsessive compulsive disorder having a bit of a moment? It could be me. I struggled with symptoms for 15 years without saying a word to anyone, not knowing it had a name. I’d heard of OCD, but just the pop culture version – obsessive hand-washing, obsessive cleanliness, and I didn’t have either of those problems. I finally realized that unbreakable routines, magical thinking, intrusive thoughts, motor tics, needing to do things an unusual number of times until they feel “right” were, in fact, obsessive compulsive disorder. I was relieved but I still never said a […]

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11/18/2017 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed.

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

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This was such a beautifully researched work of fiction, it almost feels wrong not to categorize it as a biography. The book can’t be discussed without discussing its use of the first person plural, as in “Some of us read this book. Some of us only looked at it. Some of us never even heard of it.” It’s an unusual choice, and I could certainly see where it could get old. It’s a very slim book and for me, it was just starting to show some wear at the end. Mostly, I liked it. It created weird, simultaneous senses of scope […]

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11/17/2017 's CBR9 Review No:37 |

“People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing.”

The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

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This book passed the rarest of tests: I often bring a book somewhere in case I have a wait or a gap of time and have a chance to read. I’ve done it since childhood, but the habit doesn’t really make sense anymore. I have an almost 3 year old who needs constantly, never-ending attention, intervention, corralling, chasing, and supervision. On the rare occasions that I do actually have a second in public, it’s 100,000,000x easier to just browse Facebook on my phone or something. Generally Liane Moriarty books are the only ones that I can drop into so quickly […]

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11/17/2017 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

Goodreads confirms that it is NOT just me.

Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan

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Ugh. This book was so disappointing. First of all, I freaking love Bunmi Latidan, so I had high hopes despite the fact that I almost always disappointed by “Confessions of a…” books. They’re never what I want them to be. They’re always unsatisfying. Having read a non-fiction humor book by Latidan (and having loved it) and being aware of her hilarious online presence, I was expecting way more. What I got was a half-baked novel about a new mom who isn’t coping with her life and has absolutely no awareness of that fact that most moms are not as perfect as they […]

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11/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

The strangeness detracts from the usefulness.

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

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So. KonMari. I think most of us are at least passingly familiar with it, since the word is a verb now, as in “I KonMari’d so thoroughly last weekend, I donated my husband to Goodwill.” I have some thoughts. The first is that the basic philosophy behind the method – don’t keep anything in your home that doesn’t spark joy – is slightly flawed but extremely useful. She touches on it many times, but I still found the “rules” a little murky on things that don’t individually spark joy, but you will inevitably need at some point and it would […]

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11/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:34 |


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