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The Garment in Which Memory is Stitched

My Wedding Dress: True-life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears, & Tulle by Edited by Susuan Whelhan & Anne Laurel Carter

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Finding my own wedding dress was a study in disappointment. I didn’t have any of the appropriate reactions I felt I was supposed to have, and the ‘yes, this is the dress,’ moment didn’t happen until I went to the last fitting. Indeed the entire process of planning my wedding unearthed strange emotions and bizarre traditions and expectations I’d never thought mattered very much. In the end it was a great day, and much to my own annoyance, I have to admit I’m glad we didn’t just elope like I wanted to. But having gone through the experience has left […]

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8/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

A choice between family and being your authentic self

Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu

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Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu isn’t quite a romance but digs into what it means to love. Lucky marries her gay friend Kris to appease her family and remain accepted by her Sri Lankan immigrant community in Boston. A marriage of convenience that works well on the surface. Everyone believes she married for love and escaped the fate of an arranged one. Kris and Lucky can be who they are together in LGBTQ spaces, taking home whoever they want. But things get tricky when Nisha comes back into Lucky’s life. Nisha is her childhood best friend and […]

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6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

“Your relationship is a great adventure. Treat it as such.”

Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Doug Abrams, Rachel Carlton Abrams

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Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman are renowned psychologists who specialize in what makes happy, healthy, long-lasting romantic relationships work. One of John Gottman’s claims to fame is to be able to determine, with 94% accuracy, which couples are headed for divorce on the strength of a five minute snippet of conversation. I read Dr. Gottman’s Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work before I married my husband. Neither of our parents have marriages we wished to emulate, and research is my love language. The advice in that book has stood us in good stead, but after thirteen years, […]

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4/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Marriage is not an end. It is a means to an end.

If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together by James Sexton

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Well, this was a terrifying read. I can see why the author says he doesn’t get invited to cocktail parties. (He does, however, point out that he still gets invited to weddings. So there’s that.) James Sexton has litigated over twelve hundred divorces in his career. He’s seen the liars and the dirty, dirty cheats. The acrimonious and amicable. He’s represented the ones blind-sided by the divorce papers, he’s represented an actual pimp in a custody hearing. He’s been described as a ruthless sociopath, and I might believe that on some level. He also may be a bit of a […]

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3/3/2018 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

when perfect isn’t enough

Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo

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SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS Hello! It’s hard for me to write about this one without giving away the whole plot, so I’m going to be oblique. Yejide and Akin are a young, happily married, childless couple, and their childlessness leads them both to some questionable and desperate decisions. Yejide’s life seems damned near impossible, while somehow simultaneously completely normal. Or maybe “normal,” but either way it seems impossible, but there she is, making it happen, in the way that so many women do. What she doesn’t know is that normal is one thing it is not, given the state of her […]

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1/22/2018 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

A surprising read on marriage, motherhood, and loneliness.

Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo

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This is definitely a book I wouldn’t have picked up on my own, but am glad my book club chose it. It’s nice to read outside my comfort zone every once in a while, and especially when the book turns out to be one that works out for you. Stay With Me is nominally a book about a Nigerian woman named Yejide whose husband brings home a second wife, because Yejide is unable to get pregnant, and his family is pressuring them to have a child. The rest of the book details the emotional fallout from his doing so. But the […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:125 |

We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed.

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

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This was such a beautifully researched work of fiction, it almost feels wrong not to categorize it as a biography. The book can’t be discussed without discussing its use of the first person plural, as in “Some of us read this book. Some of us only looked at it. Some of us never even heard of it.” It’s an unusual choice, and I could certainly see where it could get old. It’s a very slim book and for me, it was just starting to show some wear at the end. Mostly, I liked it. It created weird, simultaneous senses of scope […]

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11/17/2017 's CBR9 Review No:37 |

Still couldn’t stop the words from pouring out.

The Great Passage by Shion Miura

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The Great Passage is the first that I’ve actually read of the many, many “Kindle First” books that I’ve downloaded for free in the past year or so since I became aware of the Amazon program. I can’t ignore the opportunity for a free book, but I’ve been so on top of my library queue and meeting self-imposed reading deadlines that I just haven’t gotten to any of these, which I mostly choose either based on the description being the least irritating of the group in a given month, or maybe there being a cute cover that seems like maybe […]

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6/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:24 |


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