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They can’t all be gems, some of them are just costume jewelry

Everything's Trash, Buit It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson

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This would not typically be my type of book.  I do not speak in hashtag, nor do I use a lot of slang or cute phrases.  It’s not that I’m against it, it’s just not how I communicate.  This book, and Robinson’s previous effort, are filled to brim with them, and “unnec abbrevs” (unnecessary abbreviations).  Robinson is able to poke fun at herself about her style and her humor, owning that some of the way she is writing is ridiculous.  From anyone else, I’d have immediately abandoned the book. I came to read this (and her previous book) from my […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

Small children and babies ought to be plump.

The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

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I love this book! I didn’t realize I was going to at first. I tend to react to older texts (this one is about 1000 years old) generally with a kind of academic respect and deference–seeing the historical value of older works and the academic interests they allow for. But I will be honest, this book is a joy. So this is the daily journal/daily musings and minor events in the life of a Japanese noble lady. It turns out that while the concerns occasionally feel small, they speak to a life lived in a such a clear and vivid […]

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4/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:190 |

Time to watch the movie

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

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The Glass Castle (2005) by Jeannette Walls has been on my radar for about ten years, but I never quite got around to reading it. My book club chose it as their next read, which was finally the motivation I needed. The Glass Castle is Jeannette Walls’ memoir of her childhood with her very difficult parents: Rex and Rose Mary Walls. Her father was a smart, gifted, difficult, truculent, alcoholic. Her mother was artistic, addicted to excitement, and probably had some mental health issues. Jeannette grew up with her older sister Lori, younger brother Brian, and her youngest sister Maureen. When she […]

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4/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

“…a duty, out of sheer cussedness, not to disappear completely, simply to ease the conscience of the rest.”

Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey

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I thought this was going to be a depressing read that I trudged through because it was short and I sometimes feel obligated to bear witness to others’ pain. That was not at all the case. This book is gorgeous. It’s poetic and absolutely beautiful. There’s a recurring metaphor for suicidal thoughts that it just incredible. It’s funny and sad and really, really, really beautiful. It wasn’t that I didn’t think someone with a debilitating illness (in Lyndsey’s case, she has an extreme sensitivity to darkness that forces her to spend her life in total darkness) could be funny and […]

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4/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

So much more than a road trip

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson

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I LOVED this book. LOVED IT. I would just copy and paste a bunch of quotes I liked but that’s not much of a review so I’m going to do that AND try to review it. Abbi Jacobson, of Broad City (which I haven’t really watched because I’m terrible about watching TV but what I’ve seen I really like) decides to take a soul-searching road trip across the country. During this time, she makes lists (I loved the lists), stays in creepy bed-and-breakfasts and asks herself some big questions. “That ultimately I’m admitting that I’m scared of being alone. But aren’t […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

As hard as this book was to read, I cannot imagine living through it and writing it

Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg

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“You made me hit you in the face,” he said mournfully. “Now everyone is going to know.” “I know,” I said. “I’m sorry.” Kelly Sundberg spent 10 years with a man who emotionally and physically abused her, used their son to control her, and isolated her from anyone who might be able to help. She talks about falling in love with him, and how wonderful he was with their son, and how much the community around them loved him. It’s heart-wrenching, watching her try to convince herself things would get better, and that leaving would be the worst thing she […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux

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Coming on the heels of Ellie Kemper’s very twee memoir, My Squirrel Days, Michael Arceneaux’s I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé absolutely blew me away. I mean, it probably would have anyway, but WOW what a contrast. “I couldn’t make someone love me. I couldn’t make myself desirable to someone who didn’t want me. I couldn’t compel someone to see me in the same way in which I wanted to be seen. All I could do was be myself, and if someone didn’t fool with me, find someone else.” That is […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:33 |

TRYING SO HARD

My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper

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A quick note: I finished this book over two months (because I am a garbage person and that’s how far behind I am in my reviews) and I distinctly remember NOT LIKING IT. However, at the time of reading it, I also had distinct memories of NOT LIKING The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (for many of the same reasons, which I’m about to get into). That being said, I have since started re-watching Kimmy and I’m liking it way more now. So while this will be a fairly negative review, YMMV… Okay, so: Ellie Kemper plays a very specific type in her acting […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |


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