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About storiaallineare

CBR14 Participant

mostly snow-bound, reading and bothering my dog in the hudson valley, ny

storiaallineare's Reviews:

The cover of the book Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home; the colorful, simple line drawing shows a person on their laptop, lying on a sofa that floats in a sea of sharks.

‘Out of Office’ is Not Far Enough Away

Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen

February 4, 2022 by storiaallineare 4 Comments

Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home is a weird, weird book. I picked it up because I’m a big fan of Anne Helen Petersen’s work, from her newsletter “Culture Study” to her writing at Buzzfeed and then even earlier at the Hairpin (RIP earlier internet generation). She’s a media studies scholar whose sweet spot seems to lie somewhere in the intersection of history and sociology, and her newsletter series on Peloton is fascinating and horrifying in just the right […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen, pandemic books, social history, workplace history

storiaallineare's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen, pandemic books, social history, workplace history ·
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Dangled and Suspended in America

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

January 26, 2022 by storiaallineare 5 Comments

First review ever and a confession! As a recovering humanities graduate student, I’m using CB14 as a way to re-teach myself how to read for pleasure, though that phase sits uncomfortably with me. I’m not sure ‘reading for pleasure’ really covers the full scope of what reading used to do for me and what I hope it will do in the future. The feeling of pleasure doesn’t capture at all what I experienced after finishing Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, and that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dinaw Mengestu, Fiction, gentrification, immigrant experience

storiaallineare's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dinaw Mengestu, Fiction, gentrification, immigrant experience ·
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