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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

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CBR 14 Bingo – Font (for the font of knowledge you’d get from this amazing school for mothers! jk) This novel would be well suited for a book club – it’s accessible and easy to read, while also brimming with topics that groups (largely of women, often of mothers) enjoy debating. The book has a point of view, but it also leaves a lot of room for the reader to consider and interpret. The title begs the question – what is a “good” mother?  Is […]

” … we ourselves are inseparable from nature.”

Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson

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CBR book bingo – Holiday (and another Bingo!) – this book takes place in an airport, as two men talk as they await a delayed flight Two men who more or less knew each other in college meet in an airport. Their flight is delayed, and one has access to a first class lounge, so they sit together. Our unnamed narrator (a writer) listens to his former acquaintance, Jeff Cook, tell a tale about his life post college. Jeff’s story begins with saving the life […]

We were merely freshmen (and sophomores)

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Either / Or by Elif Batuman

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CBR Bingo – two books, one square (and a Bingo!) – adapt, because that’s what we’re all trying to do in college I read The Idiot and Either/Or back to back, so it felt more like a single, longer volume than reading two separate books. Based on Goodreads reviews, some felt that the tone in the second book was a bit different – that wasn’t my experience, but again, back to back reading might help  with the feeling of consistency. I think that’s an important note because the […]

What we talk about when we talk about grief, and marriage, and … and … and …

All of This by Rebecca Woolf

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Bingo square – new (I let this book jump over quite a few others in my TBR pile, messing up library due date timelines, because I was that excited to read it) (BINGO! bodies – elephant) I loved reading Rebecca Woolf’s blog, Girls Gone Child, from the early years when I was also building my family based on surprises. Picking up her latest book, All of This, was a little like knowing that one of your formerly close girlfriends was going through some SHIT, but mainly […]

Family Chaos

The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang

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Bingo square – dough – for the cooking elements AND for the significant impact of money on the family and the story generally Also, another BINGO! Every time I read the family name in its plural form, I had to mentally pronounce it, because my mind kept wanting to state “chaos”, rather than the “chow” (fun fact – the parts of our brain involved in auditory processing are full cylinder firing and critically important to reading, even SILENT reading, which is why phonics instruction is […]

The Journalist and the Eternal Questions

The Journalist and The Murderer by Janet Malcolm

How to Be Perfect by Michael Shur

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CBR Bingo – Scandal (The Journalist and the Murderer)/ Questions (How to Be Perfect)(and a Bingo!) I finished How to be Perfect on audiobook, listening most of the time with a car full of children (with only a few cringing moments at the mention of some notable sex scandals). It seemed apt for the beginning of the school year – a sort of shallow deep-dive into the field of moral philosophy, as they begin to form their new classroom communities. It’s such a great question to […]



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