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About faintingviolet

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A reader and caffeine addict who consumes all sorts of books, some just more frequently than others. Your CBR Book Club Maven in my 10th (!) year of Cannonballing, I believe in the beauty that comes from a common goal of reading, reviewing, and discussing. Also, Fuck Cancer.

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“Shame is the enemy of functioning.”

How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help by K.C. Davis

March 26, 2021 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I’ve spent the past few years unpacking a lot about myself, doing the work in therapy, reading up on things that sounds like perhaps they are me. In that I’ve also started dealing with the fact that I struggle with care tasks – what you might more easily recognize as “chores”. I always have, I don’t remember a time when completing care tasks came easily, or instinctually. And, when I’m in a bad headspace it all gets so much worse. But, I need to stop […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 31 Days of Compassionate Help, care tasks, care tasks are morally neutral, chores, faintingviolet, functionality, housework, How to Keep House While Drowning, impossible tasks, K.C. Davis, Shame

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 31 Days of Compassionate Help, care tasks, care tasks are morally neutral, chores, faintingviolet, functionality, housework, How to Keep House While Drowning, impossible tasks, K.C. Davis, Shame ·
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“From the beginning we have wandered. To this day, we wander still, but for all our travels we are not lost . We fly with courage and will undying.”

Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers #3) by Becky Chambers

March 25, 2021 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

It has been quite a while since I’ve had a truly lovely reading experience. I should have known that Becky Chambers would deliver the goods. When I read To Be Taught, if Fortunate in September of 2019 (godtopus I missed regular library service in 2020 and am glad to have it back) I was simply astounded at what it accomplished, and it was from that time my favorite of Chambers’ works, with A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet a very close second (I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: . hope, Becky Chambers, Exodus Fleet, faintingviolet, Purpose, read harder challenge 2021, read women, record of a spaceborn few, Wayfarer series, Wayfarers

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: . hope, Becky Chambers, Exodus Fleet, faintingviolet, Purpose, read harder challenge 2021, read women, record of a spaceborn few, Wayfarer series, Wayfarers ·
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Unfortunately this one falls short for me

Sakina's Restaurant by Aasif Mandvi

March 21, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

In trying to get out of my reading slump I went back to my old Audible library to see what was hanging out there that I hadn’t listened to yet. One of the books there was Sakina’s Restaurant by Aasif Mandvi. I thought I was getting a straightforward short story not a recording of a one man show, and that effected my experience, I think. There’s a way you tell a story when you are going to be in front of an audience versus when […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: aasif mandvi, audiobook, faintingviolet, immigrant experience, one man show, Sakina's Restaurant

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: aasif mandvi, audiobook, faintingviolet, immigrant experience, one man show, Sakina's Restaurant ·
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I miss traveling and am daydreaming through food.

The Irish Pub Cookbook by Margaret M. Johnson, Leigh Beisch (photographer)

March 20, 2021 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

It had been my intention to review this cookbook on St. Patrick’s Day, but my timings were a bit off. So here we are a few days later, but my positive experience with this book works year-round. I really like The Irish Pub Cookbook because beyond its quality recipes it is a book you can read. Placed throughout are informational sections about a variety of pubs all over Ireland as well as the recipes. It’s a celebration of over 70 pub classics as well as […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: cookbook, faintingviolet, Irish, Leigh Beisch (photographer), Margaret M. Johnson, Pub, The Irish Pub Cookbook

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: cookbook, faintingviolet, Irish, Leigh Beisch (photographer), Margaret M. Johnson, Pub, The Irish Pub Cookbook ·
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“It’s because I’m tired of being branded a terrorist; tired that a human life lost in my country is no loss at all.”

Our Women on the Ground: : Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir

March 13, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Looking back, I can’t quite remember how this book ended up on my TBR back in February 2020. It did though and I’m glad to have read it, even if it took me longer than I hoped to actually complete it. There is something incredibly valuable about learning a story from the person experiencing it; of seeking out authentic voices and sources. In bringing Our Women on the Ground, Zahra Hankir puts the voice of women journalists from the Arab world front and center, where […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Arab World, essay collection, journalism, Middle East, North Africa, our women on the ground, read women, women journalists, works in translation, Zahra Hankir

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Arab World, essay collection, journalism, Middle East, North Africa, our women on the ground, read women, women journalists, works in translation, Zahra Hankir ·
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