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Mediocre, Cover, Ijeoma Oluo

Anything But

Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo

March 11, 2021 by Nannerbears 1 Comment

What are we doing—we’re constantly holding up the mediocre white man as the standard and then bending to it at the detriment of good ideas, fairness, and equity. Mediocre is a must read. It was inappropriate to yell “Yes!” after every sentence, but that’s how I felt. In some ways, it’s telling you what you already know, but it’s also explaining how deep the problem really is and also affirming that no, it’s not just you. I remember so clearly arguing with my brother when […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: facts, feminism, Ijeoma Oluo, must read, patriarchy, Race

Nannerbears's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: facts, feminism, Ijeoma Oluo, must read, patriarchy, Race ·
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A haunting reminder of what we can be: just boys grown tall.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

July 6, 2016 by ingres77 6 Comments

Some spoilers below. My wife attempted this book a few months ago and it devastated her. For her, it was an unremitting wasteland of degraded women that, instead of highlighting the great strides towards equality that we’ve made, emblazoned the vast distance we’ve had to travel to become a society barely cognizant of the barriers still firmly in place. To read such a visceral recitation of subservience and lack of empowerment endangered her emotional equilibrium. So, despite near universal acclaim, I was somewhat reticent about […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dystopia, emotional wreck, feminism, Margaret Atwood, must read

ingres77's CBR8 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dystopia, emotional wreck, feminism, Margaret Atwood, must read ·
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Can I Please Just Get Some Peace & Quiet from all these Men’s Thoughts!?

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking Book One) by Patrick Ness

July 2, 2016 by Andrea Krieter 1 Comment

Rating: 5/5 Summary: Todd is one month away from the birthday that will make him a man in Prentisstown. While searching for apples in the local swamp, he stumbles upon a patch of silence in the Noise. The Noise is everywhere, there cannot be patches. Thoughts stream endlessly from men and there is no stopping it. When Todd goes back to the farm, his caregivers panic and he must be sent away. A plot is unraveling and Todd is a key, he must be kept […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: dystopia, must read, Noise, talking dog, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:37 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: dystopia, must read, Noise, talking dog, YA ·
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I finished this book, exhaled, and flipped it over to the beginning again.

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

June 17, 2016 by expandingbookshelf Leave a Comment

Reading the late Paul Kalanithi’s spectacular memoir When Breath Becomes Air, a meditation about love, literature and science in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis was a strange experience “The good news is that I’ve already outlived two Brontes, Keats and Stephen Crane,” Kalanithi wrote to a friend. “The bad news is that I haven’t written anything.” He was trying to be funny, using the kind of dark humor you get from people facing the unfaceable. But it also revealed Kalanithi’s tremendous ambition. He […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cancer, health, must read, Non-Fiction, Paul Kalanithi, science, When Breath Becomes Air

expandingbookshelf's CBR8 Review No:65 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cancer, health, must read, Non-Fiction, Paul Kalanithi, science, When Breath Becomes Air ·
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Everyone needs to drop what they’re doing and read this book

Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

June 13, 2016 by Andrea Krieter 1 Comment

Rating: 5/5 Summary: When Eric’s friend longtime friend Sarah Byrnes stop speaking, he’s confused and desperate to help her. The only problem is no one knows why she stopped speaking, one theory revolves around the burns that mar her face and hands. Eric is not only worried about his friend, but as he finds out more about why she’s being silent he begins to question what friendship truly is. This is paralleled by discussions in his Contemporary American Thought class. I love Chris Crutcher. I’ve […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: family ties, friendship, high school, must read, realistic, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: family ties, friendship, high school, must read, realistic, YA ·
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