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The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

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My first CBR 10 Bingo entry: Not my wheelhouse! I don’t read much history and I don’t read many biographies; an historical biography might be an actual first for me. I confess, I was swept away by the Hamilton Mania triggered by Lin-Manual Miranda’s fabulous musical about the founding father who grew up an orphan, immigrated to America, fought in the American Revolution, started the First Bank of the United States, and died as a result of a gunshot wound administered by Aaron Burr. Let’s face it, prior to Hamilton, the only reason most Americans had even heard about the […]

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8/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

Look! Someone has a brain like me!

First we make the beast beautiful by Sarah Wilson

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The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful” Sarah Wilson has been diagnosed over the years, everything from anxiety to depression to bipolar. She’s been on medication, off-medication, happy and functional, manic and gone and suicidal. This is a book for people who suffer from what she refers to as anxiety, but covers any sort of mental health issue where you feel like your brain doesn’t mesh with life. This book is less a treatise on how to live with anxiety and more of a blend between memoir, research, blogging, and self-help […]

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8/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

I underlined so many things in this book. In pen. Pink pen.

F*ck Feelings by Michael I Bennett MD & Sarah Bennett

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So I feel a lot of ways about this book, which is basically the opposite of the premise of the book, but what are you going to do? To begin with, I think the authors’ stated premise of the book is both valiant and worthwhile: “to turn your bullshit wish into a goal that can actually be achieved.” That sounds good, right?  Sounds… so much better than endlessly trying to figure out why a thing is happening, or how you can prevent bad things from happening in the first place (Tip: You can’t.).  As the authors’ say “Since negative feelings […]

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8/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

A fascinating oral history of Star Trek, the first 25 years.

The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman

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This is a long book: 500 plus pages of behind the scenes drama gleaned from new and historical interviews from the cast, crew, and creative minds behind the making of Star Trek for the first twenty-five years of its history. It didn’t really read like that long of a book, though. I’ve always loved behind the scenes stories, and oral histories are a particularly good format for that. So much room for conflicting opinions. Lots of insight and drama. Lots of gross stories about Gene Roddenberry. (Pro tip, Gene: Nobody wants to hear about your sex life with Majel.) And […]

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8/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:85 |

Everyone should read this book. Especially maybe your mom.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I consider myself fairly (very) liberal and open-minded which for me includes having a broad understanding of issues in America today, including the prevalence and pervasiveness of racism as it relates to being black in America. Obviously as a white woman my experience is one dimensional, and I know that I cannot really understand what it is to walk in the shoes of a black person in America. This book though, this book. Wow. If anything can really show white people what it is like, this is it. Coates has written an incredible book. Using the format of writing a […]

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7/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

Don’t wanna be shamed? Maybe just don’t be a dick…

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

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Once forming a big part of punishments, particularly before the 19th century, public shaming has come back with a bang since the rise of social media. In So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, journalist Jon Ronson takes a look at some of the people who have become famous for being publicly shamed – people like Justine Sacco, the African Aids tweet woman; Lindsay Stone, who took a photo of herself flipping off a sign at Arlington Cemetery; and various men who’ve been caught in sex scandals – and looks at how the shaming has affected them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out […]

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7/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

Yes, this memoir is as good as everyone says.

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

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If you like audiobooks at all, I would suggest doing this by audio. I know I enjoyed it a lot more than I would have reading in another format because Trevor Noah narrates it himself, and his voices for everyone are very charming. There’s also something very satisfying about hearing someone tell stories about their life in their own voice. This book is made up of a series of interconnected stories about his youth in South Africa, from when he was “born a crime,” with a white father and black mother (something that was illegal during Apartheid), through his early […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:81 |

This is hard to get through, even if you’re normally okay while reading books about rape.

Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture by ed. Roxane Gay

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I have never had such a hard time getting through a book that I liked. “Liked” actually feels like the wrong word here. How can I say I liked something that made me angry and frustrated almost 100% of the way through, and which filled me with dread every time I tried to convince myself to pick it back up again? Perhaps “appreciated”? Understand is necessary? See its importance? But not liked. I didn’t expect this reaction, even though rape is a tough subject to read about under the best circumstances, because I’ve never really read about it the way […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:80 |


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