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It’s Erin– Ms Gibson if you’re Feminasty

Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson

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I live in a state where Ted “Zodiac Killer” Cruz beat Beto O’Rouke in the Senate, where Greg Abbot succeeded Rick Perry as Governor and where we are so pro-life anti- choice we are considering sentencing women who make the personal decision to have an abortion to the death penalty.  Some days it just feels impossible but it isn’t! And when you’re ready to laugh a little through your outrage Erin Gibson will be there for you with Feminasty.  I read Gibson’s Feminasty last week when news was first breaking that Georgia, and later Alabama as well as my homestate of […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:52 |

“And never underestimate the importance of even just a little bit of progress.”

Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman

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I’ve intended to read this book for some time. Down in the depths of my depression fellow Cannonballer Siege mentioned on Facebook one of Rachel Hoffman’s tips to Unf*ck Tomorrow Morning – put a little toilet cleaner in the bowl before bed. It was such a small thing, but cleaning my bathroom had become my Impossible Task and it helped get that under control that week and lift the cloud of depression just a little bit.  I knew instinctively that any author who would a) think to write that help category and b) get that specific was someone who could […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Lets get twisted with Ada Twist

Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants by Andrea Beaty

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Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants is a continuing of the picture book series Andrea Beaty and David Roberts started with Iggy Peck, Architect, and Rosie Revere, Engineer and of course, Ada Twist, Scientist. And this chapter book is book two in The Questioneers series for the strong second to third grade reader. There are a few bumps for adult readers, but the age it is aimed at should love. Especially if they are into science, asking questions and funny friendship stories. Like her picture book, Ada is curious and always asking questions and doing experiments. And sometimes, because she […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:177 |

Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson

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Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley Ursula K Le Guin tells the story of a place whose happiness depends on one child being miserable in “The One Who Walks Away from Omelas” and the reactions to those when they discover it. In part, our ability to exist in the world is on our ability to disregard or ignore horrors, but sometimes we refuse that happiness, refuse to bow to the horrors. In many ways, Thomson’s book makes me think of that story as well as how much we take for granted. If you teach, then you know that tare a great many […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:66 |

Read the book Trump can’t!

The Muller Report by Robert Mueller

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5 stars is somewhat misleading. I mean, it’s a government report. It isn’t riveting. Highlights:   Edition: I am using the Brown Books Publishing Group Edition because it was cheap. It has a foreword by Lt. Col. Allen B. West (Ret.), and an introduction by Hon. Dan Boren. One is Republican, one a Democrat. Neither one seems very happy about the current state of politics. Because this kindle edition does not use page numbers, I will use location numbers. ALl typos are my mistakes. Cool, Brown Books including a link so we can compare the original document with your transcription. […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:65 |

Everyone should read this

How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

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Disclaimer: I received an ARC via Netgalley.   Shortly after I finished this book, I put a quote from it up on the board in my classroom. At one point, Kendi argues that white supremacy is also anti-white and a form of genocide on whites. This is in addition to the attacks on non-whites. The interesting thing is that the black students (I use black because not all of the students are American citizens) were all nodding their heads, and the while students were all WTF. But that idea of challenge of re-defining, defining, and expanding terms is, in part, […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:64 |

Should read about police

Policing the Planet by Jordan T Camp

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I should note that I am most likely a little less left leaning than the majority of Verso readers. I have the publishers, it makes me think, and I always learn something. But my politics are less revolutionary and radical. On one hand, this book is a little repetitive and slightly misnamed. I’m not sure why it is policing the planet when the essay focus on the US. There is mention of Toronto and many of the groups interviewed have voiced support for Palestine, but it is really focus on broken windows policing in the United States. Additionally, I found […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:63 |

Why Teachers Drink

Best in Class by Tim Clancy

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Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book via a Librarything giveaway. If you teach, it is that time of the year. The time when questions such as, “I know I didn’t do any of the work, but can I still pass the class” get asked. It is the time when you read essays that are done at the last minute so students write things like “I think that it is the title of the movie” or “two other sources that I didn’t right done”. It is why teachers always ask for booze. Clancy’s collection of strange writings from students […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:59 |


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