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“The witch owes nothing. That is what makes her dangerous. And that is what makes her divine.”

Waking the Witch by Pam Grossman

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(This is another one of those quote heavy reviews, but :shrug:) So, I can’t be the only one who’s hearing a lot of talk about witches lately, right?  Podcasts?(including the author of this book’s own) Friends dabbling in crystals? Little sister shoving the Co-Star app at you and asking what time you were born??  I feel like witches are in the zeitgeist right now, one way or another, and as any The Craft-Matilda-Practical Magic loving 90’s teenage girl can tell you, not even for the first time in my lifetime.  I am pretty ok with that, because at least this time, […]

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9/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 4 |

Don’t we all have dangerous minds? (Not the Michelle Pfeiffer kind, though)

You Are Here by Jenny Lawson

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I originally bout Jenny Lawson’s You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds for one of my sisters.  And then kind of ‘forgot’ to give it to her.  Not really – I did, eventually give it to her.  It was just a pre-read (and now, dutifully reviewed), pre-notated copy.  She seemed to enjoy the parts I highlighted for her, the things I thought she should pay especial attention to, the parts I really needed her to hear/see/KNOW, so no harm, no foul.  I couldn’t resist underlining and circling, starring and drawing little purple hearts at the parts I felt fit her/us […]

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6/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 3 |

“And it wasn’t like JT was the Buddha or some sage. He was just another human who was trying to figure it all out, same as she was. But he’d just said all the right words in a row.”

Hot in Hellcat Canyon by Julie Anne Long

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Did you ever start book one of a series, or of a new to you author, and a few pages in, you’ve got to take a break and log in to your library and see how many of their other books you can put on hold? Yeah, so that was me, about fifteen pages into Hot In Hellcat Canyon, a contemporary romance, by Julie Anne Long.  And it turns out, Ms. Long is not exactly a new to me author – Goodreads tells me I have, in fact, read one of her historicals (I Kissed an Earl), and that I immediately then added […]

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6/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 2 |

Bite-sized sorcery and sunshine

GMorning, GNight! little pep talks for me & you by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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I wanted my first read of this year, and my first CBR11 review, to be of Gmorning Gnight for a lot of reasons: Because I don’t know about you, but I could use some pep talks.  Because Lin-Manuel defines happiness to me, seems like maybe he’s a sorcerer, and somehow manages to elevate even tweets to an artform.  Because the illustrations of Jonny Sun shine with a Silverstein-ian simplicity that radiate glee and grace.   Because “its nice to have things to hold on to, some kindness right here, right in sight.  You can read this whenever you want to. It […]

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2/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 1 |

Y’all…. This one’s gonna be a bit different

There is No Good Card for This; When Life Hits the Fan; TIny Beautiful Things; 180 more Extraordinary Poems for Every Day; the sun and her flowers; The Art of Comforting; Rising Strong; How to Be a Heroine; Raising Human Beings by Kelsey Crowe & Emily McDowell; Janet Fouts; Cheryl Strayed; Billy Collins; Rupi Kaur; Val Walker; Brene Brown, Samantha Ellis; Ross Greene

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  Lemme tell you a not-so-secret-secret about ‘adulthood’: Nobody knows what the f they are doing. So much of being an adult is dealing with sucky situations – all the sudden a lot of your friend’s parents are dying, or your sister-in-law gets cancer (again), or this one has an affair that devastates that one, or your cousin suffers another miscarriage while her sister is expecting twins.  Literally, life just becomes chock full of situations that you are not prepared to face, and suddenly you have no other choice but to face them.  At least, that’s what adulthood has been […]

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“Comics to make you cry laughing and cry crying”

The Book of Onions by Jake Thompson

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When I was a kid, my dad had a couple of volumes of collections of The Far Side Gallery comics, and I… well, to be honest, when I first read them I was much too young to understand more than one in thirty of them, but eventually, I loved them.  I was so envious of Gary Larson, and his ability to both draw and be funny at the same time, that I spent a significant amount of time in middle school pretending that I also had both those talents.  (I very much did not.) Fortunately for us, there are still some people […]

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8/26/2018 | Post by

These were not quite the buff dudes I had pictured, but they definitely get the job done

Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes by Andrew Tsyaston

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Cannonball Bingo Spot – Cover Art.  I mean, could you pass this up?   Do you know about Owl Turd Comix? Because you should. It’s … uber relatable?     And hilarious?   And topical?   A little bit too on the nose on occasion? And other times, just 100% the plain honest truth. So this is a collection of some of the best Owl Turd strips, and I highly recommend you check it out, if you could use a laugh as much as I could, right about now.   *This is available for pre-order on Amazon.  My copy was given to […]

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“When you’re happy for yourself, it fills you. When you’re happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.”

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

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Throwback Thursday Bingo Square.   Goodreads tells me I first read Garden Spells in 2010.  (Or maybe that’s when I first signed up for Goodreads, who knows?) Either way, it was a while back.  But I’ve been in transition again (in two houses, in different rooms now in each house), so I’ve been moving a lot of my things, packing others up for storage and (painfully) whittling back my bookcases, for space reasons, and the “keeper book” criteria was as stringent as I could manage (which is to say, not exceptionally stringent.) Still, when I picked up Garden Spells in my sorting […]

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