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Sporadic cannonball participant. Looking for reading motivation and inspiration this year.

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I know I am, but what are you?

The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin

April 12, 2021 by dsbs42 Leave a Comment

Or the full name: The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too). Yeesh. We all love taking personality quizzes, don’t we? Which Hogwarts house we’d belong to (I’m a Ravenpuff), which is our True Colour (Green/Blue tie), which Friends character we’d be (…Mondler). Or, perhaps slightly more scientifically, our Myers-Briggs profile, or Big Five ratings. When I was in high school, there was one proto-BuzzFeed-type website where you could do all sorts […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Gretchen Rubin, Self-help

dsbs42's CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Gretchen Rubin, Self-help ·
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Never Tell Me the Odds

Cypher System Rulebook by Monte Cook

April 4, 2021 by dsbs42 Leave a Comment

This is one of those reviews where my original write-up got erased when my computer unexpectedly updated and the autosaved version was from the draft of my previous book review, so I’d really like to just type “I WROTE IT ALREADY” with a bunch of crying/angry/head explodey emojis and move on. 🤯😠😡😖😫😭🤬🤬🤬☠     🤬 However, this doesn’t really feel like it should count as a review, so here goes nothing. (I just feel like I’m forgetting so much of what I originally wanted to […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Monte Cook, reference, role playing games, rpg, rulebook

dsbs42's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Monte Cook, reference, role playing games, rpg, rulebook ·
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But did they try more cowbell?

Severance by Ling Ma

March 23, 2021 by dsbs42 Leave a Comment

In the spirit of not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good/adequate/completed review, I’m just going to try and get my thoughts down about this book. Severance was one of my it’s->$4.99-on-Kindle-so-if-I-have-even-the-vaguest-interest-I-will-buy-it impulse purchases. I read the critics’ reviews on Amazon and friends’ ratings on Goodreads, skimmed the free sample to get a sense of what it was about, and was hooked. Unfortunately, my interest had waned by about the third chapter. Severance, which was written in 2018, takes place in 2011 and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: dystopia, Immigration, Ling Ma, zombie

dsbs42's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: dystopia, Immigration, Ling Ma, zombie ·
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Likable Rich White People Problems

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

March 13, 2021 by dsbs42 2 Comments

This is my sixth Moriarty book. Like many people, Big Little Lies was the first (and best, for my money), but they’ve all been good, so I keep reading. In Truly Madly Guilty, we meet Clementine and Sam, Erika and Oliver, and Tiffany and Vid, each going about, living their ordinary, suburban lives, until something awful happens at an ordinary, friendly barbecue hosted by the latter couple in their lavish back yard. Two months later, the characters deal with the fall-out from this event and wonder […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Liane Moriarty

dsbs42's CBR13 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Liane Moriarty ·
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“The craft of writing as the art of thinking”

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

March 5, 2021 by dsbs42 2 Comments

I did not want to finish this book, because I knew I’d then have to write a review, and I don’t know if I can do Between the World and Me justice. This short National Book Award winner from 2015 by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a three-part letter to the author’s (then) 15-year-old son, Samori Coates. It was written shortly after the killer of Michael Brown was acquitted, inspired by his son’s reaction to the injustice, and is Coates’s paean and lament about the truths of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ta-nehisi Coates

dsbs42's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ta-nehisi Coates ·
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