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faintingviolet gave me this book right before Carrie Fisher died, and I’m only now not too sad to read it.

February 16, 2018 by narfna 4 Comments

I’ve really been trying to make an effort in 2018 to read books I already own. Currently the amount of books I own but haven’t read, including in audio and e-book, numbers around 221. faintingviolet gave me this book in the CBR book exchange in December 2016, two weeks before Carrie Fisher died. Even though I was beyond excited to finally have it in my possession, since it had been on my TBR for years and I’d never gotten around to it, I just couldn’t make myself read […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: #memoir, adapted, carrie fisher, Celebrity Memoir, ECT, faintingiviolet, humor, manic depression, narfna, Non-Fiction, Psychology, read harder challenge 2018, star wars, wishful drinking

narfna's CBR10 Review No:24 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: #memoir, adapted, carrie fisher, Celebrity Memoir, ECT, faintingiviolet, humor, manic depression, narfna, Non-Fiction, Psychology, read harder challenge 2018, star wars, wishful drinking ·
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Big skies, big animals, big threats

May 28, 2016 by borisanne 2 Comments

By the time I started reading Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, I had forgotten what it was about, and I’m glad I had because otherwise, I would have had my defensives up. I added it to my library queue after reading badkittyuno’s review last month. Cannonball Read: the system works. There’s not much I can add here. badkittyuno did a killer job summarizing the experience of the read, and the broad strokes of the story that Alexander Fuller tells. It’s a memoir of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History Tagged With: #memoir, Africa, alcoholism, Alexandra Fuller, apartheid, baboons, badkittyuno, CBR8, civil war, codependence, dogs, Fuller, history, horses, machine guns, manic depression, Non-Fiction, siblings

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:19 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History · Tags: #memoir, Africa, alcoholism, Alexandra Fuller, apartheid, baboons, badkittyuno, CBR8, civil war, codependence, dogs, Fuller, history, horses, machine guns, manic depression, Non-Fiction, siblings ·
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