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Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Nix by Nathan Hill

Happy Place by Emily Henry

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today – A Memorial Sloan Kettering MD's History of Healthcare and Agency by Elizabeth Comen

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

December 31, 2025 by dsbs42 Leave a Comment

Book 21: Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Rough Review: 3 stars. I don’t know how to review this, or what notes to write to let my future self know how I felt or what I was thinking after reading it. TBA is a talented writer and quite brutally…funny isn’t the right word, maybe amusing? But I think for me, a lot of this reads as characters and situations in service of commentary, commentary that is miserable and true and not completely true and certainly […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Health, History, Romance Tagged With: Elizabeth Comen, Emily Henry, john green, Nathan Hill, taffy brodesser-akner

dsbs42's CBR17 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Health, History, Romance · Tags: Elizabeth Comen, Emily Henry, john green, Nathan Hill, taffy brodesser-akner ·
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