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Cover of Nice Try by Josh Gondelman

“Reading…is fun to do and it lets you feel superior to other people.”

Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman

January 2, 2020 by NoNeinNyet 5 Comments

Josh Gondelman has been one of my favorite comedians for a while now. I often fall asleep to comedy albums and specials. His second album, Physical Whisper, is frequently in the bedtime rotation and his more recent album, Dancing on a Weeknight, also makes its way in from time to time. He is one of my favorite Twitter people (@joshgondelman). I was so excited when my library hold on his memoir, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, finally became available. Gondelman begins […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cbr12, essay collection, Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, non fiction

NoNeinNyet's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr12, essay collection, Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, non fiction ·
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Non Fiction End of Year Round- Up

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

December 26, 2019 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

I think it is safe to say I completely fell off the CBR wagon but as the year draws to a close, and my office currently has a total of five people in, I wanted to try and get caught up on reviews. This seemed like a perfectly reasonable task until I wrote out every book title I still needed to review and realized I was nineteen books behind while still actively reading two other books. So in lieu of complete, well thought out reviews […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, jeff guinn, Joel Golby, Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up, Richard Lloyd Parry, Sarah Krasnostein, Susan Orlean, the library book, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death Decay and Disaster

Caitlin_D's CBR11 Review No:112 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, jeff guinn, Joel Golby, Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up, Richard Lloyd Parry, Sarah Krasnostein, Susan Orlean, the library book, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death Decay and Disaster ·
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