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Mixed Bag III

Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Michael Chabon et

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

This Telling by Cheryl Strayed

Sweet Virginia by Caroline Kepnes

Shine Pamela Shine by Kate Atkinson

Halfway to Free by Emma Donaghue

Graceful Burdens by Roxanna Gay

Bear Witness by Mark Gaitskill

The Contractors by Lisa Ko

Sun of a Beach by Mia Sosa

The Wonderful Adventure of Nils by Selma Lagerlof

April 12, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Thrilling Tales – 2/5 Stars I’ve read this book twice previously and more or less liked a lot of the stories. But this reread was pretty sour for a few reasons. The story collection is ostensibly a genre collection of adventure stories posed off of Michael Chabon’s childhood of reading such stories. There’s probably references in the introduction to Edgar Rice Burroughs and Edgar Wallace and other Edgars. And so, when I bought and read this story in college, I felt more or less that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Caroline Kepnes, Cheryl Strayed, Emma Donaghue, Kate Atkinson, lisa ko, Mark Gaitskill, Mia Sosa, Michael Chabon, Michael Chabon et, Roxanna Gay, Selma Lagerlof

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:172 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Caroline Kepnes, Cheryl Strayed, Emma Donaghue, Kate Atkinson, lisa ko, Mark Gaitskill, Mia Sosa, Michael Chabon, Michael Chabon et, Roxanna Gay, Selma Lagerlof ·
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stories about WOMEN by WOMEN for WOMEN…have I said WOMEN enough yet?

This Telling by Cheryl Strayed

Graceful Burdens by Roxane Gay

Sweet Virginia by Caroline Kepnes

The Contractors by Lisa Ko

Halfway to Free by Emma Donogue

Bear Witness by Mary Gaitskill

Shine, Pamela! Shine! by Kate Atkinson

December 18, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

I’ve been sitting on this collection for a bit, as I am struggling with articulating how I feel about the group as a whole. Each story can be (and will be) handled individually, but there is something about the overarching themes of the entire collection that has left me at a loss. This is another collection from Amazon; it was free on Kindle Unlimited, I enjoyed their last collection, and I really love Kate Atkinson. Also- I was intrigued by the title: Out of Line- Women […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Caroline Kepnes, Cheryl Strayed, Emma Donogue, Kate Atkinson, lisa ko, Mary Gaitskill, Roxane Gay

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:140 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Caroline Kepnes, Cheryl Strayed, Emma Donogue, Kate Atkinson, lisa ko, Mary Gaitskill, Roxane Gay ·
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Y’all…. This one’s gonna be a bit different

November 10, 2018 by NTE 5 Comments

  Lemme tell you a not-so-secret-secret about ‘adulthood’: Nobody knows what the f they are doing. So much of being an adult is dealing with sucky situations – all the sudden a lot of your friend’s parents are dying, or your sister-in-law gets cancer (again), or this one has an affair that devastates that one, or your cousin suffers another miscarriage while her sister is expecting twins.  Literally, life just becomes chock full of situations that you are not prepared to face, and suddenly you […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: #raisingchildren, adulthood, Adulting, Anthology, Backlog, billy collins, Brené Brown, cbr10bingo, Cheryl Strayed, Emily McDowell, extraordinary poems for everyday, Helping, How to be a Heroine, Janet Fouts, Kelsey Crowe, Life choices, Life Skills, NetGalley, poems, poet, poetry, raising human beings, Rising Strong, ross greene, Rupi Kaur, Samantha Ellis, SHOW UP, The Art of Comforting, the sun and her flowers, There is no good card for this, Tiny Beautiful Things, Val Walker, When Life hits the fan

NTE's CBR10 Review No:20 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: #raisingchildren, adulthood, Adulting, Anthology, Backlog, billy collins, Brené Brown, cbr10bingo, Cheryl Strayed, Emily McDowell, extraordinary poems for everyday, Helping, How to be a Heroine, Janet Fouts, Kelsey Crowe, Life choices, Life Skills, NetGalley, poems, poet, poetry, raising human beings, Rising Strong, ross greene, Rupi Kaur, Samantha Ellis, SHOW UP, The Art of Comforting, the sun and her flowers, There is no good card for this, Tiny Beautiful Things, Val Walker, When Life hits the fan ·
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The book club-iest of book club books

June 22, 2018 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

A while back, my friends and I started a book club. We meet roughly every other month and have for the last say year and a half. Normally it’s just two hours for us to sit down, drink wine, and hang out, and that’s awesome. In the meetings we’ve held so far, only once have we all actually read the book and that was Big Little Lies (side note, that made for a super fun meeting. We talked about the book for a full three hours and […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Cheryl Strayed

lowercasesee's CBR10 Review No:69 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Cheryl Strayed ·
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What a woman!!!

May 21, 2018 by KB Leave a Comment

I am not a huge fan of non fiction, I will read a biography if I am interested in the person, but a biography/memoir is not something I would generally grab from the shelf. However when my book club picked this book, I dutifully went and read it. This is a difficult book for me to rate and review. On one hand, Cheryl is a fascinating and amazing human being. The events she has experienced and her journey on the hike are incredibly interesting. Her […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, Cheryl Strayed

KB's CBR10 Review No:17 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, Cheryl Strayed ·
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Where you lead, I will follow

October 16, 2017 by baxlala 7 Comments

I don’t know how I missed reading Wild when it came out five years ago. I certainly remember it coming out, and was aware of its popularity, particularly once it became a Reese Witherspoon vehicle. I saw the movie and enjoyed it, but it wasn’t until moving to the PNW that I felt the inclination to pick it up. This is my first Cannonball review of the year and, it being October now, I’ve given up on the possibility of reaching a full Cannonball. But […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: autobiography, baxlala, Cheryl Strayed

baxlala's CBR9 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: autobiography, baxlala, Cheryl Strayed ·
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