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Down the Rabbit Hole

Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane

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I fell for you because that’s what you do when you meet the woman whose face you want to be looking into when you die. You fall. And keep falling. And if you’re really lucky, she falls with you and then you never get back up again to where you were because if that was so great, you wouldn’t have needed to fall in the first place. Rachel Childs has not had the best childhood. Her mother was a famed psychologist and writer of self-help relationship manuals in public, and a miserable, lonely pessimist in private. Rachel has never known […]

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3/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Undiagnosed Mental Illness Will Wreck Your Life

Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey

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“…You are very lucky. Not everyone can feel things as deeply as you. Most people, their feelings are…bland, tasteless. They’ll never understand what it’s like to read a poem and feel almost like they’re flying, or to see a bleeding fish and feel grief that shatters their heart. It’s not a weakness, Grey. It’s what I love about you most.” Our man Greyson, a successful Hollywood executive with a wife and an eight-year-old daughter, has an undiagnosed mental illness. It’s an unescapable, nameless issue that dictates more and more of his life. Sometimes it’s a boon to his career, boosting […]

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2/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t”

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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Aza Holmes doesn’t have a lot of friends, and her best friend Daisy, a gregarious and outgoing fan fiction writer, sometimes finds her a bit exhausting. This is not surprising, as Aza struggles with anxiety and OCD. When local billionaire Russell Davis Picket goes missing and there is a reward offered for news of his whereabouts, Daisy remembers that Aza knows his son. Daisy orchestrates a scenario so that Aza can reconnect with Davis, who she hasn’t seen for a few years. Aza and Davis met at a camp for children who’d lost parents. Aza’s father died, as did Davis’ […]

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9/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:79 |

Aggressively whimsical

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

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CBR10BINGO: Cover Art I read through Jenny Lawson’s Furiously Happy in a few days, and honestly, not much of it stuck with me. Most of it was just too stream-of-consciousness and aggressively whimsical for my taste, and I found myself tuning out whole chapters, skimming over the parts that felt empty of meaning other than how self-consciously “crazy” someone can act. These parts rang false, much like those reality show contestants who do nothing but mug for the camera and show off for each other, more interested in creating a persona than letting any real personality peek through. That’s unfortunate, […]

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8/2/2018 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

The Stars Never Disappear

In Sight of Stars by Gae Polisner

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In Sight of Stars by Gae Polisner took a bit for me to get through. Mostly because it deals with some very tough subjects: depression, suicide, family and love. Filled with many great observations there are some clichés as well. These can be overlooked due to the nature of the story. These also help break up the tension of a typically over dramatic teenager mentality. (Spoiler) The clues are there as to why the father commits suicide, why the mother is the way she is, and what other characters will eventually end up doing, but like Klee (pronounced Clay) we […]

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7/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:287 |

Maybe Your Lovely Wife Should Have Written This Book Instead?

My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir by Mark Lukach

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First review ever. Please be kind. Mark Lukach and his wife Giulia meet at college and immediately fall deeply in love. Giulia is an ambitious woman whose life goals are to have a great career and three kids by the time she’s 35. Mark wants to be a teacher. After college, Giulia works in New York, while Mark takes frequent trips to visit her. After they move to San Francisco and Giulia starts a new job, she begins experiencing intense anxiety about her job performance. She begins forwarding Mark work emails to read over before she sends them to her […]

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3/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

“Your now is not your forever.”

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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First, this review is sort of temporary so I can get my thoughts out before they fade away. I’ll probably be re-reading soon. I want to have a better chance to digest it, since the first time I read it over Thanksgiving weekend, I had my mom and sister and their HGTV/Hallmark Christmas movie obsession as a constant in the background and it was very distracting. I always have these grand plans of reading and writing over Thanksgiving weekend, and it NEVER happens because my family are illiterate heathens. Also, we’re doing this for my next IRL book club and […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:120 |

A buzzing sound began in my brain

A Small Revolution by Jimin Han

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This book came to me by way of Amazon Prime’s First Reads program, so it was free, which was the correct price for it. I did keep wanting to love it, but fundamentally I hated it. Here is what it had going for it: it was a very fast read. A Small Revolution is the story of a young Korean-American woman – our narrator, Yoona – who does a program in the summer between high school and college that brings Korean-Americans to South Korea for tour and immersion in the culture (it sounded to me like an equivalent program to […]

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12/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:43 |


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