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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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“Love is as love does.”

Land of Enchantment by Leigh Stein

May 27, 2026 by Fiat.Luxury Leave a Comment

I discovered Leigh Stein via her Substack, specifically this post, which hit the nail so solidly on the head that I had to see what else she had written. Land of Enchantment is the novel/memoir version of that post, sort of – it’s a thoughtful, uncomfortable look at her youthful abusive relationship with her ex, Jason, for whom she moved to New Mexico, hoping that if she changed herself enough, he would stick around. Things with Jason in Albuquerque, however, are not great: Once we were […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, emotional abuse, Land of Enchantment, Leigh Stein

Fiat.Luxury's CBR18 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, emotional abuse, Land of Enchantment, Leigh Stein ·
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Not for me

Burn Book by Kara Swisher

May 27, 2026 by Sophia Leave a Comment

My book club chose Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (2024) by Kara Swisher as our latest book. We’d already read another tech memoir, Careless People, which I enjoyed. I was hoping I would like Burn Book as well. In the end, I didn’t love it. Although there were parts that were engaging, I did not have enough interest in or knowledge about the subject matter for me to appreciate it. Kara Swisher has been a tech reporter for three decades, covering tech from the very beginning back in the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Kara Swisher

Sophia's CBR18 Review No:27 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Kara Swisher ·
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Mea Gulpa

Famesick by Lena Dunham

May 25, 2026 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Lena Dunham and I have a long history together. I watched Girls at a time when its content was deeply resonant: a twenty-something living in a big city (look, okay, Brissie isn’t exactly The Big Apple, but it felt big to me), making terrible dating decisions and being wildly short-sighted. But there was something running through the show that appealed to me beyond surface-level identification. The line most people remember from the pilot episode is, of course, the famous “voice of a generation” proclamation (or […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: lena dunham

Caesar's Wife's CBR18 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: lena dunham ·
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Quilt of love

A Language of Stitches: The Radical Quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins by Constance Moore

May 22, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When I need a quick read I look through my online reader saves and find all sorts of goodies. One of those was A Language of Stitches: The Radical Quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins by Constance Moore. Read (obviously) via an online reader, this book is due end of July-early August 2026. Rosie Lee Tompkins (born Effie Mae Martin ) reminds me of the artist Sister Mary Corita Kent because of their artistic style. Both were unusual, yet they were products of their time. They both […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: African American quiltmakers, Constance Moore, Effie Mae Martin, quilt makers, Rosie Lee Tompkins, United States

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:150 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: African American quiltmakers, Constance Moore, Effie Mae Martin, quilt makers, Rosie Lee Tompkins, United States ·
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Belonging

Until We Meet Again by Lily Kim Qian

May 22, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Until We Meet Again by Lily Kim Qian is thoughtful and reflective. Qian gives us a coming of age story of a young herself, who is a Chinese-Canadian girl who deals with her family dynamics such as her mothers mental illness, her mother and fathers volatile relationship, and dealing with growing up with a caring father, but one who is just doing the best he can, and the attitudes of immigrant parents and “old school” Chinese values vs her western world. The cultural differences of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Canada, China, Cultural, family, Lily Kim Qian, Multigenerational, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:149 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Canada, China, Cultural, family, Lily Kim Qian, Multigenerational, Social Themes ·
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Drugs don’t always help

Unshrunk by Laura Delano

May 19, 2026 by Sophia Leave a Comment

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance (2025) by Laura Delano is another book I discovered on NPR’s List of Favorite Books. I have an older brother who fell into some major mental health problems when he was in college. He has had a very hard life since then. He is often difficult, nonsensical and hard to be around, but I also know what he was like before he got sick. In an effort to understand him better or maybe find something to help him, I find […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Laura Delano

Sophia's CBR18 Review No:22 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Laura Delano ·
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