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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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About MrsLangdonAlger

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I am a devourer of almost all things pop culture, but especially books. I already make it a goal to read around 150 books yearly, so I figured why not do some good for the world while I do it? I mostly read fiction, with some graphic novels and nonfiction mixed in there for good measure.

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Validating and Vital

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

September 25, 2019 by MrsLangdonAlger 1 Comment

Chanel Miller is the name of the victim that convicted rapist Brock Turner raped. For years she was known only as Emily Doe, even after making a huge impact on survivors around the globe when her victim impact letter was shared on Buzzfeed. Now she’s reclaiming her name and her story, and she did an amazing job of it. I would have called this particular memoir vital and validating even if Miller hadn’t happened to be a good writer, but it turns out that not […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: chanel miller

MrsLangdonAlger's CBR11 Review No:20 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: chanel miller ·
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Channeling Former Riot Grrls

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

September 10, 2019 by MrsLangdonAlger Leave a Comment

I knew I was being pandered to the entire time I was reading this and I loved it anyway. This is yet another in the new trend of “girls fight back against sexism/rape culture/patriarchy” young adult books that I’m always happy to see popping up on my library “new in YA” feed. Books I have previously loved along this genre can be found in my reviews and include “Girls on the Verge”, “Sadie”, “I Stop Somewhere”, “The Nowhere Girls”, and “Sawkill Girls”. And no I […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Jennifer Mathieu

MrsLangdonAlger's CBR11 Review No:19 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Jennifer Mathieu ·
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Not Quite a Worthy Sequel, But Still Good

The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

September 10, 2019 by MrsLangdonAlger Leave a Comment

First, let me say that I devoured this book in one day. No matter it’s faults, and it does have them, this is obviously an extremely propulsive book. I couldn’t put it down. Despite it being a giant hardcover, I was carrying it with me everywhere around the house, even when it was inconvenient and even uncomfortable to do so. It’s been a long time since I spent hours doing nothing but just reading, but I spent basically a day reading this and the new […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Margaret Atwood, the testaments

MrsLangdonAlger's CBR11 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Margaret Atwood, the testaments ·
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A Worthy Followup to Bird Box

Inspection: A Novel by Josh Malerman

August 21, 2019 by MrsLangdonAlger 2 Comments

Before I start, I realize my title here may be slightly misleading: don’t get excited, this book is not a sequel to Bird Box. It’s just another book by the same writer. But if you liked Bird Box, I think you’ll like this. This is going to be really hard to describe without giving too much away, because part of what’s great about this book is the slow revelation of what’s really going on. I’m going to be very careful not to include major spoilers […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: josh malerman

MrsLangdonAlger's CBR11 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: josh malerman ·
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The Handmaid’s Tale, but With Chili Peppers

The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

August 21, 2019 by MrsLangdonAlger Leave a Comment

I’ve accepted that the theme of this review and my next one is just going to be “books that are extremely hard to describe without giving too much away, but that I really loved”. So. The Core of the Sun in set in a world in which women have been “evolved” with eugenics to belong to one of two classes. The eloi are feminine, submissive, and “wife material”. The morlocks are not feminine, think for themselves, and are doomed to physical labor or to die […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Johanna Sinisalo

MrsLangdonAlger's CBR11 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Johanna Sinisalo ·
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