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I skipped CBR for 2020 because I was expecting my first child and knew time would be finite. Then the world imploded and I missed the crap out of y'all. Plus I read so much less without y'all's recommendations! (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Caitlin_D's Quick Questions interview.)

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Can racism be funny?

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

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No. It can’t. But Amber Ruffin gets dangerously close… You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamarr 5 Stars I adore Amber Ruffin. I want to be her friend. She is hilarious; her skits on The Late Show with Seth Myers are perfection and her episodes of Drunk History are pure serotonin. She could have published her grocery list and I would have rushed to read it but instead she published this hilarious memoir with her sister who […]

The Wife Between Us

The Wife Between Us  by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

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Continuing my theme of “I read this in February and only have vague recollections of it” in: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen 3.5 Stars rounded up to 4 The Wife Between Us is another book with alternating POVs of Vanessa, an unreliable narrator due to a drinking problem, who has recently gotten out of an abusive marriage with a man named Richard and Nellie- a young woman who is about to marry Richard. “In my marriage, there were three truths, three alternate […]

The Lola Quartet

The Lola Quartet by Emily St John Mandel

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I am terrible at keeping up to date on review writing but we are 6 months into 2021 and if I don’t catch up soon Ill never catch up! The Lola Quartet By Emily St John Mandel (read in February) 3 Stars So– I should really write little snippet reviews when I check something off in Goodreads because then when I log in to write a review four months later I can write something more than “I feel like I thought this was OK but also […]

“This book is an experiment. We figured it out as we went along. Sort of like a family.”

The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia

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I was not prepared for Mike Birbiglia’s The New One. TW Jen’s pregnancy has some high risk scary situations but, spoiler alert, the baby is OK because this story is about her first year on Earth… I am a new mom. My son will be one year old in fifteen days and has spent 99% of his life in a pandemic. He has met approximately a dozen people all but three of which he met in the first three weeks of his life before the true impact […]

More than just a YA romance

More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood

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Danyal Jilani is a confident, attractive high school senior whose life ambition is to be a chef. As a Muslim man this is considered a frivolous life goal and it causes a lot of problems with his father. He has a huge crush on his friend’s sister, Kaval, but his lack of educational ambition makes him an unlikely match for someone who prizes a traditionally educated husband who can provide her a comfortable lifestyle. Danyal’s parents, knowing their son will have limited options, have begun […]

“Boats that stay in the harbor are safe, sweetheart, but that’s not what boats were built for.”

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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Fredrik Backman is easily one of my favorite authors. He consistently writes beautiful, gut twisting novels filled with believable characters who are often painted as fairly average, ordinary people thrust into somewhat extraordinary scenarios. If you haven’t read Beartown and Us Against You you’re really missing out on poetically breaking your heart into itty bitty little pieces. “This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, […]



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