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Rage against the dying of the light

Men Have Called Her Crazy (2024) by Anna Marie Tendler

November 8, 2024 by drmllz Leave a Comment

Bingo square rage. I think this completes my bingo row, along with fanfic, fiasco, earth day, golden Content note for the book: suicidal ideation, eating disorders, self harm, mental health “Now I’m furious, so angry my whole body feels hot, and I can tell I’m about to cry.” (p. 211) I’m (still) a fan of Tendler’s ex-husband–and I love that this isn’t about him. Well, it’s about him in the sense that he’s the ‘unfaithful husband’ of the narrative, presumably, the shadow that lurks behind […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Anna Marie Tendler, cbr16 bingo Rage, cbr16bingo, drmllz, fuck the patriarchy, life writing, Mental Health, patriarchy, Relationships, women's writing

drmllz's CBR16 Review No:13 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Anna Marie Tendler, cbr16 bingo Rage, cbr16bingo, drmllz, fuck the patriarchy, life writing, Mental Health, patriarchy, Relationships, women's writing ·
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Makes You Wanna Holla

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

November 5, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr16 bingo Rage New Orleans East is a section of town, within the city’s borders, that is nothing like the rest of New Orleans.  It was reclaimed swampland, drained by a couple of Texan developers in the 1950s for the city of tomorrow.  New Orleans was booming at the time, with a massive NASA plant building the Titan rockets.  (Made sense – there was a harbor and it was halfway between Houston and Cape Canaveral.)  New Orleans East was supposed to draw in all the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr16 bingo Rage, FEMA failure, Katrina, Large family dynamics, New Orleans childhood, Sarah M Broom, Systematic racism, You can't go home again - seriously

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:34 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr16 bingo Rage, FEMA failure, Katrina, Large family dynamics, New Orleans childhood, Sarah M Broom, Systematic racism, You can't go home again - seriously ·
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