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“I finally understood what my birth parents did not: my adoption was hard, and complicated, but it was not a tragedy. It was not my fault, and it wasn’t theirs, either. It was the easiest way to solve just one of too many problems.”

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

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I basically read this all in one sitting last Saturday morning. It’s a relative short book at around 220 pages, but I think I would have wanted to read it fast even if it were 400. Nichole Chung, unsurprisingly to anyone who’s read her other work (I’ve mostly done so on The (dearly departed) Toast), is a very good writer. In fact, she started writing about adoption years before this book was published; I remember reading several of her articles about it and thinking at the time that she should write a book. And hey, here it is! And hey, […]

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12/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:164 |

My favorite book of 2018

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

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It’s official: I have the yips. I finished reading this book three weeks ago, but every time I’ve tried to write a review, I freeze, not because I have nothing to say but because I can’t seem to calm my mind enough to write the review this book deserves.  For you see: Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is my favorite book of the year. Chee shares essays about his life and writing career, keeping the subjects separate at first, then integrating them more and more as the book progresses. He writes about a summer exchange program in […]

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12/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:64 |

I too did not like this. #CBRBingo #Blackout!?

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands by Chelsea Handler

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Well I tell you what, this book. It was just unpleasant. I would not have picked this up if it weren’t for bingo, and none of the other choices looked at all appealing. I thought, well if you pick that one at least you won’t  be bored! And that was true. But my version of not being bored mostly consisted of me yelling at my audiobook about how much I disliked almost everything that was going on. Maybe she is a different author now but at the very least this book has not aged well, and at most I really […]

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12/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:160 |

All of this has happened before.

So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica by Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross

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“Eddie sat us all down as the cast and went, ‘The show’s going to go for five years. Five years. Every episode is going to be like a movie. Keep your powder dry. We’re in here for the long haul. Nobody’s to make fun of this. There’ll be enough people anyway who want to cut a swath in us some way or rubbish the idea, or they’re not going to be fully on board, because we’ve got this title.‘Battlestar Galactica—that’s a blessing as well as perhaps a bit of a poisoned chalice. Nobody needs to take this as seriously as […]

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11/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:153 |

I was pleasantly surprised to be so absorbed in this book – cbr10bingo Delicious!

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi

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A friend game me Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi as a birthday present.  She acknowledged that non-fiction isn’t really my thing but she thought I might find it interesting.  She hadn’t read the book herself but had heard good things about it.  I don’t recall ever having read an autobiography, or biography for that matter.  And my friend was completely correct about me not being into non-fiction.  This is only my second non-fiction book this year out of my current 47 reviews. Before starting this book I knew two things about Padma Lakshmi, that she modeled […]

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11/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

And not a duck to be seen!

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen

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Quackery: A Brief History on the Worst Ways to Cure Everything is indeed what it says on the box.  We have an intro into what each method is, and then how awful it was and why.  It’s very informative, but for each thing it comes across as a Very Big Deal. Each of these methods were indeed used, but it seems like the authors over-inflate their importance.      Mercury (I’m sure everyone knows by now that medically, Mercury is a Very Bad Thing) Antimony (I wasn’t familiar with this, and forgot it was even an element (Number 51, Sb). […]

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11/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

Decline in Fall

Big Game: The NFL In Dangerous Times by Mark Leibovich

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I am a lifelong football fan and a Baltimore Ravens supporter. When the Ray Rice scandal hit, I swore off the sport for a year because of how poorly the NFL and the Ravens organizations respectively handled the situation. The Rice situation provided me with an excuse to do something I had wanted to do for awhile: watch less football. It’s tough to overstate what a hold the NFL had on my life in my 20s. I’d plan work, break dates, check my phone in bad circumstances to follow the league, both my beloved Ravens and my fantasy team. But […]

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10/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:35 |

Sort of does what it says on the tin. Worth checking out, anyway, if it sound interesting to you!

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman

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I liked this overall, but had a hard time reading it, and it wasn’t what I was expecting. Abby Norman dropped out of college due to debilitating pain she started experiencing one day, and which doctors minimized for years before she finally was semi-diagnosed with Endometriosis (among other things). The title and synopsis of this book makes it seem like more of a book about the relationship between women and doctors, but really this is a memoir that mostly focuses on Abby’s medical history, and she sort of extrapolates outward (with help from research, yes) how her journey was affected […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:124 |


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