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“I knew beyond any doubt that there was genuine value to be found in my story.”

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

March 27, 2022 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I feel like this is going to be a tough one for me to review, because my relationship with the content that Hannah Gadsby creates is so personal to me and has been frankly crucial to how I am coming to understand myself that it’s a bit difficult to try to take that out of the equation and look at Ten Steps to Nanette on its own. I’ve likely watched Nanette half a dozen times in the past couple of years (and once again in […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Anxiety, ARC, ASD, autism, comedy, debut, Depression, faintingviolet, Hannah Gadsby, NetGalley, neurodivergent, Ten Steps to Nanette, trauma

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Anxiety, ARC, ASD, autism, comedy, debut, Depression, faintingviolet, Hannah Gadsby, NetGalley, neurodivergent, Ten Steps to Nanette, trauma ·
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A funny book about racism — get the audio if you can!

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

October 25, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

A good time, despite the subject matter. Amber and Lacey make hearing stories about racism simultaneously entertaining and infuriating. Laughing while angry! The best example of what this book does is probably the story that they open it with, for good reason. It involves Lacey being at a store and paying with a check (back when people did that). The cashier was a white teenager. Lacey had checks with famous and historically notable Black people on them. When she pulled out her checkbook the check […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, comedy, crazy stories about racism, Lacey Lamar, narfna, narrated by author, non fiction, Racism

narfna's CBR13 Review No:144 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, comedy, crazy stories about racism, Lacey Lamar, narfna, narrated by author, non fiction, Racism ·
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When the only person who knows all the secrets is six

Spy x Family vol 5 by Tatsuya Endo

August 15, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 13: Self Care I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned in previous reviews that I tend to turn to manga and comics for comfort reading. One of my current favorite series is Spy X Family, in which a husband, wife, and daughter are gathered and have to present an ideal picture to the world, but things can get awkward at home since everyone has a major secret: Dad is a spy, Mom’s an assassin, Bond the dog who gets premonitions of the future, and daughter is […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: assassins, cbr13bingo, comedy, manga, self care bingo, spies, spy x family, tatsuya endo, telepaths, voume 5

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:70 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Speculative Fiction · Tags: assassins, cbr13bingo, comedy, manga, self care bingo, spies, spy x family, tatsuya endo, telepaths, voume 5 ·
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A hilarious and cheeky take on who Jesus (Joshua) was growing up, before becoming the Messiah

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

July 27, 2021 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

CBR13 Bingo Square: Pandemic – I highly recommend reading this during a pandemic, the laughs were needed! No disrespect to Christopher Moore but had I not procrastinated I would have seen Jenny Lawson in conversation with either Felicia Day or Neil Gaiman for her Broken (in the best possible way) promotion.  However, I’m grateful I did as this was my first event with Moore and he was highly entertaining!  Lawson shared that Lamb is her favorite book by him which instantly put it on my […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Religion Tagged With: CBR13, cbr13bingo, Christopher Moore, comedy, Dome'Loki, Fiction, humor, Religion

Dome'Loki's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Religion · Tags: CBR13, cbr13bingo, Christopher Moore, comedy, Dome'Loki, Fiction, humor, Religion ·
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This whole book is SHENANIGANS and it is beautiful.

Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

June 24, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

This was extremely fun. It was nearly a five star book for me, except that I did think it had one weak spot, but more on that in a bit. I wouldn’t quite call this a black comedy⁠—it’s a little too lighthearted and frothy for that⁠—but it’s definitely leaning in that direction. The plot kicks off when Meddelin Chan accidentally kills her blind date, and panicking, enlists the help of her mom (and thus her three aunties) to deal with the body. Meddy and her […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: comedy, dial a for aunties, indonesian author, indonesian chinese culture, Jesse Q. Sutanto, murder, narfna, risa mei, Romance, screwball comedy

narfna's CBR13 Review No:72 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Romance · Tags: comedy, dial a for aunties, indonesian author, indonesian chinese culture, Jesse Q. Sutanto, murder, narfna, risa mei, Romance, screwball comedy ·
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Douglas Adams was brilliant and gone too soon

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

May 22, 2021 by Dome'Loki 3 Comments

I don’t remember the first time I read, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HGttG), I suspect sometime in middle school.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read it since.  HGttG is probably responsible for much of my sense of humor.  When Adams suddenly passed away in 2001, I felt a profound sense of loss, he was brilliant, ahead of his time, and his writings (fiction and non) were so very funny.  Every so often it will pop into my head, “What would Adams think […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, #Science Fiction, All Ages, CBR13, comedy, Dome'Loki, douglas adams, Fiction, humor, SciFi

Dome'Loki's CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, #Science Fiction, All Ages, CBR13, comedy, Dome'Loki, douglas adams, Fiction, humor, SciFi ·
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