Cannonball Read 10

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Great Idea – Just Wish the Pictures Were in Color CBR10BINGO

Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Corners by Travis Elborough and Alan Horsfield

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CBR 10 BINGO Square: Dream Vacation (I want to go to at least half of these places. I love exploring.) (Note: I was going to go for blackout BINGO but it looks like I’ll probably be four books short. Mostly because I have no books I want to read that fit those categories, and I just want to read books I want to read. With this one, I believe it brings me up to four BINGOs.) Best for: People who enjoy books on world curiosities that don’t focus on making fun of or judging individuals. People who like books with […]

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11/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:63 |

Not exactly as advertised

The Liar's Club by Mary Karr

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The Liar’s Club (1995) a childhood memoir by Mary Karr, is another book on my list of 50 Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40. Unfortunately for me, the first blurb on Amazon, from Oprah.com, says that this book is “wickedly funny and almost movingly illuminating.” The next paragraph states, “The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood.” With this kind of [mis]information, I was imagining a lighthearted comedy, so I eagerly put it on my Kindle to read while on my backpacking trip. But “wickedly funny” and “hilarious” would not be the words I use […]

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11/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

Gonna buy it and reread it

Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove

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Lord all mighty this was a dense one. I guess I’ve gotten accustomed to novelized non-fiction a la Erik Larsen because I did not anticipate the depths into which I was diving. Reading this is like reading a textbook. There’s a lot to absorb and my reading time was curtailed by its library due date (and the increasing load of loans I’ve been accumulating). It’s an incredible work of research and I’m going to reread it, it’s just a lot. Literally 25% of the book is endnotes, like that much a lot. I live smack in the heart of gentrifying […]

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11/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:125 |

Do I look like I drink water?

So Close to Being the Shit, Y'all Don't Even Know by Retta

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I think most of us know Retta from Parks and Rec, where she played Donna Meagle and was part of the TREAT YO SELF phenomenon of 2011. I also knew she loved the LA Kings and Hamilton, but really didn’t know much else about her before listening to her audiobook. Now I know a lot about her…but I still don’t really feel like I know her. RETTA, WHO ARE YOU? You love handbags. You love your hardworking, immigrant parents. You love Duke University. You are super smart. You love dark roast coffee made in a Keurig. You love to tweet. […]

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11/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:43 |

A Graceful Exit from the Treadmill

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

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In my professional life, I have been pulled strongly in two directions. One on hand, I’m like a running back. I’m a go-getter. I love to put my head down, get my legs pumping, and run until we win or I puke. Or both. A team player. Leave it on the field. Etc. That’s translated into a law degree, 80-hour workweeks, and everything else you’d expect. On the other hand, I’m also a hippie by nature. I enjoy nature walks, yoga, meditation, poetry, and falling into a vegetative state with guitar in my hands. My inability to reconcile these real […]

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11/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:65 |

Episode 1-42: The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors

Worst. Person. Ever., Season of the Witch, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Dark Defiles, Desolation Island by Douglas Coupland, Peter Bebergal, George Saunders, Richard K. Morgan, Patrick O'Brian

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Episode 1-42: The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors Wherein I review: 154. Worst. Person. Ever by Douglas Coupland 155. Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal 156. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 157. The Dark Defiles (A Land Fit for Heroes #3) by Richard K. Morgan 158. Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin #5) by Patrick O’Brian TRIPLE CANNONBALL ACHIEVED As my regularity falls apart like an Acapulco tourist’s bowel movements, I feverishly exploded across that third times a charm finish line.  Not quite the worst book ever, but it was […]

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11/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:158 |

Dry and Informative, and Unfortunately Timed

The End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones

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First, let me tell you all that reading this book on the bus or train or generally in public made me weirdly nervous:  it felt like it the title could be misread as an alarmist book about how scary the end of white Christian America would be, and I didn’t want people to think I was some deplorable. I was very tempted to attach a little note below the title that said “Would Be Great!” or “I Support This!” or something. Instead I ended up always reading it with the cover down. Anxiety is a ridiculous thing. Anyway. I was […]

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11/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

“History is booooooring”

Time Twisters by Steve Sheinkin

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This series by Steve Sheinkin has its moments. They might not be for the adult reader, but the child reader (about ages 7 to 9) will get a kick out of our heroes Abby and Doc time-traveling through history. In history class, Abby and Doc are reading about Abraham Lincoln. But something is not right. All he is doing is sitting, reading the newspaper, playing handball in the alley near his home and where is that famous beard? How did this happen? Historical figures have become tired of hearing, “History is booooooring” from the students, so they decided to show […]

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11/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:425 |


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