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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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“I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

February 8, 2017 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

It is hard to know how to review this book. I had planned to read this before Ms. Fisher passed away, but following her death it seemed somehow imperative to read it as soon as I could muster my strength to do so. It was time to say goodbye to Carrie, and to the character that defined her career. However, the very structure of this book limits its possible impact; it exists at all because Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, carrie fisher, faintingviolet, journals, star wars, the princess diarist

faintingviolet's CBR9 Review No:8 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, carrie fisher, faintingviolet, journals, star wars, the princess diarist ·
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People who weren’t the homecoming royalty and don’t want to be./Anti-cool is its own cool competition.

January 17, 2016 by Halbs Leave a Comment

An impressionable youth of the 1990s loved Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing. It looked and read differently than most of the other books that he owned. The irony of buying an indie punk book in his suburban Barnes & Noble didn’t escape him, but he still enjoyed the book just the same. Fast forward fifteen years of world travel, NPO work, and growing up. A chance reintroduction at a Half-Price Books reunited said youth and said book, and a glorious reunion was had by […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: journals, letters, Punk, social issues, zines

Halbs's CBR8 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: journals, letters, Punk, social issues, zines ·
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