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Too easily the future of “school choice”

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

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This book should terrify and infuriate everyone who reads it because you know what? At the rate our local, state, and federal governments are defunding public education and deregulating what’s counts as “school choice”, this kind of child abuse will be allowed to proliferate instead of be curbed. And I say child abuse before I even get to the physical and emotional abuse in this book – child abuse as in denying your kid access to a real education. We’ve found one of my high horses, folks, get ready because the air is real thin all the way up here. […]

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6/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:66 |

The Dance of the Violin

The Dance of the Violin by Kathy Stinson

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The Dance of the Violin is a delightful story about a young boy who loves music and finds a way to always play. And will use anything to make music: pots and pans and even rubber bands. This is when his family buys him a violin. One day he tells everyone he has to partake in a contest. It will be his first, but even so, he tells his teacher he must play this one piece of music, even though it is one of the most difficult piece of music. All because it speaks to him.   I liked that […]

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6/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:208 |

I’m a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects.

The Literary Life; Hollywood; Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen; Oh What a Slaughter!; Film Flam by Larry McMurtry

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As you can see, I’m on a bit of a Larry McMurtry kick: The Literary Life – 4/5 Stars Like his previous memoir that I also recently reviewed, The Literary Life, is hyper-focused on his writing career. For the most part, he doesn’t repeat any important stories, though he does trace over a few events and ideas that have come up before. I think to enjoy this one — which reviews of the other books suggest — you have to be interested in the publishing industry, be relatively aware of the figures around at the times he’s describing, and to […]

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6/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:202 |

My favourite book of 2018

Prairie Fires: The American Dream of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

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I know it is a terrible cliche, but every chapter inevitably had me thinking “this sounds familiar, I feel like we read this every day, the more things change…” While I did not grow up watching the television series, I was a voracious reader as a child, and repeatedly read The Little House of the Prairie series. I am also very interested in biographies of writers I enjoy, particularly when my perception of them isn’t particularly well matched by the reality (see also L. M. Montgomery). I saw this sitting in the new releases section of my library, with the […]

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6/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

The changes are coming fast and blind now, and in your skull sits an hourglass with a grain size hole through which numb seconds are sliding.

Cherry by Mary Karr

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I recently read Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir and thought it was very good. I’d never read her or her memoirs before, so it was interesting dive into a writer who, being from Texas, which is not the South, but is not not the South either, and given how many Southern Lit classes I took in college, should have come up. Also, I used to live near Syracuse, so again…I am also interested in her other memoirs and will probably read The Liar’s Club in the fall when I am teaching memoir with my students, and I will be […]

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6/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:195 |

43: The arc of not listening to women is long.

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

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I’ve been hearing a lot about Kate Moore’s The Radium Girls, and Our Shared Shelf just made it (or The Hate U Give) the May/June book. I’ve not read a lot of nonfiction over the last several years, and I’ve been trying to be more well-read in less-known issues. This book was compelling, but I should warn you, also infuriating. After the Curies discovered radium, it became enormously popular. Manufacturers used it in paint for watches and dials, and this meant hiring lots of young women to paint these dials. This book is about their story: the fun times working […]

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6/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:43 |

37: Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her before.

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly

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It’s no secret around these parts that I’m a Jane Austen stan. For example: I just bought an Austen themed game that was advertised as a Kickstarter on Facebook (it arrived last week, and it is basically Jane Austen meets Settlers of Catan. SUCH A HOOT). Books about Jane Austen are almost always a matter of interest to me. Last year, I saw that Helena Kelly’s Jane Austen, the Secret Radical was published and making an enormous splash. I decided in a fit of the-school-year’s-almost-over whimsy that NOW was the time to read it. I devoured the text in a […]

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6/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

Seen and Heard

Hunger by Roxane Gay

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When I started reading this book, I didn’t think I’d relate to so much of it. I knew it was about her body as a “woman of size,” and I knew a bit about Gay’s history as a victim/survivor of sexual violence, but I’m neither of these things, so was surprised. I thought this book would be difficult to read due to the subject matter, but somehow, she accomplishes the impossible and writes an accessible, honest, brave and powerful story of healing. She tells a devastating, unvarnished account of trauma and the lifelong fallout of those events, but leaves you […]

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