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English puts us beneath the stars

Turtles all the way down by John Green

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“My whole life I thought I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along” Aza is dealing with anxiety. Her thoughts spiral out of control, invade her mind, and make life hard. Still, she goes to school, she keeps up with her friends and tries her best to do what her therapist tells her. Her friend Daisy convinces her to take a trip down the river when an old childhood’s billionaire father goes missing. Entanglements ensue.   I’m not going to say much more than that, […]

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11/25/2017 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

Content warnings are a thing for a reason.

Real Artists have day jobs by Sara Benincasa

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This is the kind of book that needs to land in your lap at just the right time. It is a quirky book filled with lots of different and varied life advice. It has everything from showing gratitude and chasing your dreams to managing anxiety and remembering to brush your teeth. And one chapter about getting a dog…? So yeah, his is the kind of book that needs to land in your lap at just the right time. Sadly this was not the time for me. I was greatly deceived by the title of this books. I read the description […]

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11/20/2017 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

We Are All Our Own Refrigerator

Beard in Mind by Penny Reid

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This was not at all what I was expecting. Beard in Mind might be the best book Penny Reid has ever written. The lovely Mrs. Prolixity Julien and I have both put Penny Reid on triple-secret probation for sins against writing, reading and the Romance genre. We are harsh because we love and we want her to do better. Beard in Mind was doing better. A big huge thank you to Mrs. Julien for lending this to me. I will be adding it to my permanent collection. Beau and Shelly are equally interesting characters. We get a lot more of Beau than […]

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8/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:82 |

Reading the reviews sums up the experience.

Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T. Mason

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I think that I was really in the wrong mental place to read this book. I picked it up to help me figure out how to cope with a relative that I suspect might have borderline personality disorder. I started it while she was in a snit not talking to me because I’d taken a few hours to answer a text message. I thought, “I’ll read this book and figure out some coping strategies and be ready to deal with this anew when she starts talking to me again.” That…was not what happened. I found the book to be a […]

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5/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

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My friend M. found the beginning of this book to be quite pretentious. And it is.  It’s pretentious AF for the first 60 or so pages.  And it’s hard to read pretention too.  The first few pages, especially, seem to drag and serve no purpose other than to make you re-think your decision to read it. But, I’m here to tell you that, while the first part of The Marriage Plot is definitely pretentious, it’s pretentious for a reason.  The pretention of Madeline and her parents and her classmates at Brown, including her boyfriend Leonard and her want-to-be-boyfriend, Mitchell, all […]

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3/20/2017 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

Apparently there are boring sociopaths

Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M.E. Thomas

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A book told about sociopaths from the perspective of a sociopath? Sounds fascinating. Also the creepy cover pulled me in. Unfortunately I ended up quitting this one halfway through because I was so. freaking. bored. How is it even possible to make a book about sociopaths boring?! The author writes anonymously, but is a self-professed and professionally diagnosed sociopath. She asserts that 1 in 25 people is a sociopath (I am not sure where this statistic comes from and would like to see the study that asserts this) and says she wants to share how her condition affects her life. […]

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3/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

Stop Walking on Eggshells – regaining your sanity when someone in your life is a person with bpd

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Paul T. Mason, MS and Randi Kreger

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There is a person in my life that when I was first introduced to I was warned that, “X  is crazy but it’s subtle, you won’t notice it at first but one day X’ll say something and your perspective will shift.  You’ll then look back on what has happened previously and realize that X’s crazy”. On first meeting X, all seemed normal and for months I didn’t understand the warning.  Then about nine months after that first meeting an interaction occurred that made me go, “Huh, that was weird” and then I realized that my perspective shift had just happened as […]

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3/1/2017 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

I don’t want to review this book.

Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney

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This brief audiobook gave me a bit of  an existential crisis. It’s billed as  a funny memoir-type-thing written by a comedian. It says so right on the cover. Which is why I spent the first half of the book asking myself, “Is this humor? What is humor? Is anything humor? What is life? Why am I here?” It wasn’t that it was a bad book, exactly, although it wasn’t great. It just wasn’t funny at all. Delaney covers his early life and youthful misadventures and…maybe they’re funnier in his head. It’s read by Rob Delaney, so you wouldn’t think all […]

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2/21/2017 's CBR9 Review No:6 |


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