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This One Features Almost No Annotations Because I Did My Job the First Time What A Concept Part 5

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Nix by Nathan Hill

Happy Place by Emily Henry

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today – A Memorial Sloan Kettering MD's History of Healthcare and Agency by Elizabeth Comen

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

December 31, 2025 by dsbs42 Leave a Comment

Book 21: Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Rough Review: 3 stars. I don’t know how to review this, or what notes to write to let my future self know how I felt or what I was thinking after reading it. TBA is a talented writer and quite brutally…funny isn’t the right word, maybe amusing? But I think for me, a lot of this reads as characters and situations in service of commentary, commentary that is miserable and true and not completely true and certainly […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Health, History, Romance Tagged With: Elizabeth Comen, Emily Henry, john green, Nathan Hill, taffy brodesser-akner

dsbs42's CBR17 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Health, History, Romance · Tags: Elizabeth Comen, Emily Henry, john green, Nathan Hill, taffy brodesser-akner ·
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Life’s big hard questions – what will happen? Who will I become/have largely been answered. And now I feel like there’s this huge absence where the mystery used to be. And I guess that’s really what I’m after.”

Wellness by Nathan Hill

April 30, 2024 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

I am trying a new thing…each of my reviews will begin with “in five words,” wherein, wait for it, I sum up the book in five words.  (It’s a HOOK baby… or that’s the hope.) In Five Words: modern, love story, transformative, satire My first-ever podcast guest, CliftonStrengths coach Heidi Convery-Liscum, recommended this book on Episode 10, she was effusive in her praise and said that it gripped her and she would not soon forget it. What she said made such a strong impression that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Chicago, contemporary, Nathan Hill, social media, wellness, wellness culture

cheerbrarian's CBR16 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Chicago, contemporary, Nathan Hill, social media, wellness, wellness culture ·
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Don’t Nix this one from your to read pile. #obviouspun

The Nix by Nathan Hill

April 14, 2020 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

As I saw the saw my Goodreads Reading challenge accusatorily tell me how many books I am behind right now (6!!) I panic searched for something I could do via audio while going on my many social distancing walks. This came up on my local library app as “available now” and a cursory search showed me that folks I like had it in their to read piles, so on I went. Once again, I found myself unknowingly entering a book set in Chicago (where I […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: #writing, Nathan Hill, politics, The Nix

cheerbrarian's CBR12 Review No:12 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: #writing, Nathan Hill, politics, The Nix ·
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Petitio Principii (or “The Circular Argument”)

December 22, 2016 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

I have mixed feelings about this novel but I blame it on the election.  So, I picked up The Nix from my college’s library (No fines for faculty for overdue books! No fines! No fines!) back in late October after reading a couple of reviews and hearing the author on NPR (I can’t remember which program).  It seemed like it could be a sprawling, intriguing mess, in the vein of The Goldfinch, which I enjoyed.  However, it took me over a month to finish this, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: glorious messes, Nathan Hill, The Nix

Jenny S's CBR8 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: glorious messes, Nathan Hill, The Nix ·
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From the Siege of Chicago to the Recent Past

October 22, 2016 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

An unsatisfied Midwestern suburban housewife abandons her husband and young son, only resurfacing decades later when she suddenly and inexplicably attacks a prospective presidential candidate. Suddenly drawn back into his mother’s orbit, her failed writer of a son finds himself torn between an opportunity to cash in on the notoriety and the chance to finally learn his mother’s secrets. Along the way, the narrative will connect a disparate crowd of characters including video-game playing hoarders, entitled college students, Norwegian evil spirits, bankers, violinists, soldiers, poets, […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Nathan Hill

jeverett15's CBR8 Review No:41 · Genres: Health · Tags: Nathan Hill ·
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