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More ways Wall Street can screw you

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

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I’ve been procrastinating writing this review because, while Michael Lewis is one of my favorite nonfiction writers, this book proved to be a bit of a struggle for me. Maybe that’s because I’m too jaded to be surprised that banks and stock traders had found yet another way to screw over the little guy. Maybe it’s because everything I know about the stock market I learned from Trading Places, so if it’s not about pork bellies or frozen concentrated orange juice, it doesn’t arouse my interest. Possibly it’s because once I got the gist of the problem I wasn’t deeply […]

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11/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:49 |

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

Maria Longworth Storer: From Music and Art to Popes and Presidents by Constance J. Moore and Nancy M. Broermann

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As a native Cincinnatian, I am familiar with the name Longworth and that family’s connection to local history. Maria Longworth Storer was the founder of and one of the creators at the world renowned Rookwood Pottery. This new biography of Maria Longworth Storer opened my eyes not just to this formidable woman’s business acumen, artistic sensibility and philanthropy, which were already well known and documented, but also to her religious and political views and ambitions. Maria Longworth Storer came from a wealthy society family, but she was also a bit of a rebel who did not hesitate to promote her […]

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11/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:57 |

Be the Human Magnet you wish to see in the world

Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life's Toughest Questions by Kari Byron

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If you get to know [people] a little better and work up a degree of human warmth toward them, you can judge them without the influence and control of unseen forces. — Kindle location 1081  

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11/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

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What a great book! I don’t know what else to say except Rubenhold does such a great job of giving us a full picture of the five women who were murdered by Jack the Ripper. She goes in the order of the murders, with each section focusing on them from birth to death. She skips over their brutal murders and instead shows us how they lived, how they loved, and how many people were quick to blame these women and in some cases characterize them. Thank you Hallie Rubenhold for telling Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary-Jane’s stories. “The Five” […]

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11/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:285 |

This other bacteria, permitted to age, does not kill a man but leaves in its wake the hulk of a creature torn and twisted.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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CBR11 BINGO: Back to School Square BINGO BLACKOUT!!! I don’t often re-read. I like to live in the world of a book for a bit and then move on. While there is currently a metric crap ton of books from my high school and college past staring at me from the book shelves in my house, the dust is rarely blown off one unless I am trying to foist it on my teenage son. “Here! This is a gooood book!” I am 99.9% sure that I read “In Cold Blood” in high school, but it may have been my freshman […]

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10/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |

What’s your book about? Stuff.

Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik

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This book is meant to make you think about all the stuff that surrounds you.  Not the clutter, but the stuff that that clutter is made of. The metal in your chair, the cloth of your clothes, the paper of the book you’re reading.  We take the materials in our world largely for granted, but there was a lot of time and effort put in to discovering and inventing all of the materials that we encounter in our daily lives.  The book is divided into chapters, and each one has a different structure to it, much like the different structures […]

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10/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

“We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality”

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

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With the best bit about my last, ultimately disappointing read turning out to be the actual climbing of Mount Everest, I decided to stick with that theme but turn to real life for my next read. I’d enjoyed other books by Jon Krakauer and so decided that he’d make a good guide for me. Into Thin Air did not disappoint. Sent by the magazine he was employed by at the time, the story Krakauer came home with was very different to the one he’d intended, after having survived the 1996 expedition that took the lives of eight people. Into Thin […]

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10/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

A great book about two things I am terrible at: money and math. #CBRBingo – True Story

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

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Smart people who think outside the box are so much fun to read about. I read this book really fast, and it was enjoyable to read the whole way through. I’ve never read a Michael Lewis book before, but I might consider reading more now. He has a simple, clean style that is really efficient at getting his story across, and he has an instinct for the best way to use his material. And he has some great underlying material here. As he notes in the Afterword (which is really great, so if you’re going to read this book, make […]

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10/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:86 |


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