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Blingle Bells

Mom to a wild-haired four-year-old spitfire. Wife to a nurse. I spend my days tripping over dogs and putting out fires.

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Will this be a review of this book or a review of my Episcopalian conversion? Stay tuned.

Jesus Was An Episcopalian (And You Can Be One Too!) by Rev. Chris Yaw

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There’s a lot to unpack here and most of it really isn’t about this book. I was raised Lutheran and turned out queer, which took me down Agnostic Avenue. I was also born and raised with an unfortunate penchant for self-loathing and perfectionism and never lost a deep-down belief in some kind of God. Enter a great big beautiful holy corrupt institutional enabler: the Catholic Church. And that’s how I became a queer adult convert to Catholicism. I felt something in the church I’d never felt before – holiness and a truth that could not be ignored. It took my […]

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4/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

“I’m worth twelve of you, Malfoy.”

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling

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How the hell am I supposed to review Harry freaking Potter? Just the fifth best-selling book in any language of all time, nbd. I’m sure I have some original thoughts on it. I read this 12ish years ago but I was a different human then. I’ve started and finished a bachelor’s degree, gotten married, had a child, gained an astronomical amount of context, perspective, and life experience since then. I’ve also had a memory-wiping coma. One of my few resolutions this year was to reread the series, although it doesn’t really feel like rereading – I remember next to nothing […]

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4/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

“…a duty, out of sheer cussedness, not to disappear completely, simply to ease the conscience of the rest.”

Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey

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I thought this was going to be a depressing read that I trudged through because it was short and I sometimes feel obligated to bear witness to others’ pain. That was not at all the case. This book is gorgeous. It’s poetic and absolutely beautiful. There’s a recurring metaphor for suicidal thoughts that it just incredible. It’s funny and sad and really, really, really beautiful. It wasn’t that I didn’t think someone with a debilitating illness (in Lyndsey’s case, she has an extreme sensitivity to darkness that forces her to spend her life in total darkness) could be funny and […]

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4/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Delightfully useful for learners and educators.

How We Learn by Benedict Carey

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Well, I just loved this book. The title and subtitle pretty much tell you what it’s about, but I do want to take a minute to impress upon you guys the one thing I didn’t realize until I read it: this book is for practically everyone. As a homeschool mom, I thought this might be a dry but useful book that would help me grow as an educator, but oh no. Are you a student of anything? Any age, any topic? Are you educating anyone on anything? Do you have kids who are learning anything, whose education you’re invested in? […]

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4/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

The uncanny valley of my life.

Stray City by Chelsey Johnson

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Have you ever had a thing that’s so much yours that you’re prickly about it? A hobby that you’re into so much more than just casually that you can’t listen to other people discuss it casually? Something you feel protective of, defensive about, proprietary toward? That you can’t discuss with (almost) anyone else because they will not be on the same level as you and that’ll make you feel weird? And you feel almost angry if you hear someone else talking about like it’s theirs to talk about, because it’s yours? It’s a unique experience. I’ve felt that way about […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

Life-changing concept, underwhelming book.

The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking

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  I feel like this review is liable to have more words in it than the book did. I’m years late to the hygge train – I was vaguely familiar with the concept when it got big in America a couple years ago, but never really paid attention to it. Well, here I am now, and let me make it clear that I am a convert. There’s finally a word for the feeling I feel with candles lit and a thunderstorm outside! That powerful feeling of coziness and well-being. It narrows down the decorating style I’m into and the ways […]

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4/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

How to Party with an Infant by Kaui Hart Hemmings

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Something about this book just did not connect, and I’m really torn about whether it’s me or the author who’s the issue. Mele Hart is a single mom in San Francisco whose boyfriend/baby’s father turned out to be already engaged (this isn’t a spoiler, it’s on the blurb). She’s part of a playgroup with a few other moms and one dad. People get assigned to small groups (is this a thing? The closest thing I’ve heard of is MOPS) by a larger organization, which also has a forum and is now hosting a cookbook competition, which Mele decides to enter. […]

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3/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Reviewing this makes ME feel like an alien.

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

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Without a doubt, I have grown more as a reader since I started doing CBR a few years ago than in my entire 20+ years reading before it. It’s still comforting and thrilling to read books that are exactly the reason I love to read, but going completely outside of my genre is a different kind of experience. Fulfilling. I read Cannonball reviews (along with Pajiba and every other blog or news source I follow) through Feedly, and my only “rules” for myself are that if the review piques my interest, I add it to my reading list. Then I […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |


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