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Shake Me Because I’m Falling Asleep From This Book

To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins

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To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins Finished Feb. 15, 2019, took 11 days to read 2 Stars on Goodreads Genre: Non-Fiction Rating 7/7 for 2019 overall, 2/2 for Non- Fiction Let me preface this by stating that I feel bad for the review I am about to write. I realize this is a memoir about someone’s journey, which was likely emotional, passionate, and life-changing. But unfortunately, that doesn’t translate to a book. And now I am about to crap all over that book. Jedidiah is a non-profit lawyer who reaches the conclusion that he is not ready to […]

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2/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

An affair to remember, I guess

The princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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I’m not totally sure why I picked this book, I didn’t watch the Star Wars movies until I was in college, and as such, they never caught fire for me.  I enjoy watching them with my 9 year old kid, because they bring him joy, but I’m Luke warm over them (my phone capitalized the “luke” so I didn’t set out to make a pun, but here we are). I was browsing audio books from my library and I wanted a light read. This book passed the time well enough, but it was incredibly uneven to me.  The intro talked […]

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2/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

B is for Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz

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Okay I swear I’m not doing this alphabetical thing on purpose, it just happened! The book is not called “Pizza” by the way, the boys just happen to be in front of a Pizza sign in this photo and probably thought it would be a funny way to confuse readers. There’s no way the use of this picture, and the prominence of the word ‘pizza’, so that it looks like the title, is an accident. I listened to this as an Audiobook because I read somewhere it was the superior way to do this book. I think that, as a […]

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2/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

It won’t be long

Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor

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I picked up Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor shortly after my own cancer diagnosis over a year ago, and despite its scant 130-odd pages, it’s taken me until now to finish it. This is not to say that it is bad or even boring; on the contrary, it is a thoughtful work of flowing prose. Perhaps, though, I ought to have held off picking it up until my own experiences had faded a little. On the other hand, I unwittingly stumbled upon a unique journey, starting in a similar place as Taylor and then, through fits and starts over […]

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2/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

I believe the woman behind the case study, but she’s not unimpeachable

Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey

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What an interesting book this is, and what a challenge to review, given how I came away from it. Anna Lyndsey’s story is that after decades of normal living, she slowly becomes so sensitive to light — both natural and artificial — that she ends up confined to a completely blacked-out room in the home she shares with her husband. Girl in the Dark focuses mostly on her declining health and the time that she spent at her lowest, while she lived in complete darkness for years. Since publication, Lyndsey’s symptoms have apparently abated somewhat, and she doesn’t require complete […]

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2/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Must read about education

None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Altanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corparate Greed, and Criminalization of Educators by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton

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Disclaimer: I received a copy via a giveaway on Libirarything. This book about the Atlanta school test cheating scandal is really two books in one body and as such is not as good a book as it could be. Shani Robinson was a teacher at Dunbar Elementary in Atlanta. After she left the school, she was charged as one of the teachers who allegedly changed answers on standardized tests. Robinson plead not guilty, but sadly, lost in court. She is appealing. I hope she wins. Part of the book, the first book struggling to get out as it were, is […]

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2/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Is it too soon to call my favorite book of 2019?

Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

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You guys, I could not put this book down. It was also kind of like eating a Twix bar hidden in a Fiber One bar wrapper, because whenever anyone asked me what I was reading and I said that it was a memoir about the hotel industry and I couldn’t tear myself away from it long enough to function, for whatever reason the topic struck people as a much more dry and scholarly than it was. And I really don’t know why – what goes on in hotels? Sex, extramarital sex, sex for money, weird sex, celebrity stays, drugs, lingerie […]

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2/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

How gender screws with all of us

The Gender Games: the problem with men and women, from someone who has been both by Juno Dawson

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Part memoir and part introduction to gender and trans issues, Dawson, a trans woman, strikes a balance between her personal experience with gender, both pre- and post-transition, and a wider discussion of how gender messes with all of us. Her main argument is that gender is a ridiculously narrow set of expectations that hurts everyone: cis and trans, binary and non, female and male, from before we are even born. As someone with only a surface understanding of gender theory, I liked how clearly she set out the difference between sex and gender; sex being the physical, chemical, biological and […]

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2/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |


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