CBR 10 BINGO Square: SNUBBED!: Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017 – lost to The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power’ by Alex Nunns Best for: Folks who claim the feminist title; folks who thought there was something off about Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In.” In a nutshell: Foster picks apart the main themes of Sandberg’s best seller and points out all the ways that it is harmful to feminism; namely, that it doesn’t acknowledge the bigger issues at play, […]
“I’m basically your resident fat Slytherin Rory Gilmore.”
I’m using this review to fill my Birthday! square, as Becky Albertalli’s birthday is November 17th. “Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain…” I loved Simon Vs. the Homosapien Agenda and The Upside of Unrequited, so of course I wanted to read Albertalli’s newest book. Leah on the Offbeat is more of a direct sequel to Simon, as Upside […]
History develops. Art stands still
“Good writing can only be learned from good writing.” This book is a collection of lectures that Forster gave at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1927. It grabs you immediately as he dismisses temporality and time periods in the discussion of the merits of novels and, instead, places all writers in the same room writing from some sort of shared humanity. “We may say that History develops, Art stands still” From that he sets out to deconstruct the novel, discussing it not as a set or […]
When I was a child, I first noticed that neither history as I was taught it nor the stories I was told seemed to lead to me. I began to fix them.
CBR10Bingo – Brain Candy If you’ve read this book, you’re already horrified by my calling it Brain Candy. But I am taking that literally and applying it directly to the book. This book involves a horribly oppressed and traumatized and abused woman, Connie, who begins the book off being forced into a mental health facility against her will through the betrayal of her niece and the violence of her niece’s pimp/fiance. Brain Candy! So what happens next is that Connie is latched onto from the […]
To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe, bland, and emollient thing. In a certain sense, the suspicious Tories and militant philistines are right: intellect is dangerous
CBR10Bingo for Award Winner – 1964 Pulitzer for General Non-Fiction This is a strange kind of book. It’s part popular history and part political critique. It takes the question of “anti-intellectualism,” whether this means an espousal of non-intellectual or anti-intellectual beliefs and actions, broad trends in anti or non-intellectual moments and looks for causes and consequences. He defines intellectual as someone who puts an emphasis on thinking and a “life of the mind” into practice, whether in professional or personal life. So not just someone […]
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
CBR10Bingo – Banned Book Not only was this a banned book…it’s almost THE banned book. Maybe I am cheating here, but rather than focus on a book banned by America, I am choosing a book that was not even allowed to be published in its own language before being translated several different times in different countries. Pasternak was already a very famous and renowned poet for a long time before starting to write this book. The book itself is a kind of Russian Romantic […]
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