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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 |

I Believe Her

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

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#cbr10bingo Listicles  Educated has been on the New York Times Combined Print and E-book Nonfiction Best Seller list for over 33 weeks. It is also one of Time Magazine’s Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far Educated: A Memoir is Tara Westover’s riveting account of how she went from growing up home schooled in a survivalist family in Idaho to PhD student of History at Cambridge. Westover is the youngest of seven children raised by parents whose goal was to live “off the grid” and who believed that the coming of the end times was immanent. Much of the book focuses […]

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10/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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While I already knew of Alison Bechdel and had some idea of the what her first graphic novel is about, I genuinely wasn’t prepared for how much Fun Home would affect me emotionally. It was a roller coaster of feelings, beautifully told and illustrated. Bechdel is only slightly older than I am, so her memoir of growing up in the 70s and 80s had some very familiar echoes. Though our families were dysfunctional in completely different ways, the family dynamics, cultural and social norms which she describes in Fun Home very much reflect what growing up and coming of age was like for anyone who felt […]

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10/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

Stripping away the air of glamour to reveal gangsters who were actually pretty crap at robbing banks

Go Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn

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Go Down Together was bought immediately after I read and loved Jeff Guinn’s The Road to Jonestown, and was no disappointment. Prior to reading this, I knew the very basics about the pair – Depression era gangsters and snappy dressers, who went down together in a hail of bullets. After reading this, I feel I know the pair rather intimately – and was rather surprised to have some of the more popular myths about them demolished. Both hailing from incredibly poverty stricken backgrounds – the Barrows moved from one struggling farm to another before giving them up as a loss […]

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10/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:70 |

TNG through J.J. Abrams, an oral history.

The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek by Eds. Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross

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This was a hefty brick of a book. It follows the creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation through the 2016 release of Star Trek: Beyond, but because there was so much more Star Trek content created in the second twenty-five years of the franchise, this sucker clocks in at a whopping 843 pages. I read the first volume in a day and a half. This one took me six. Of course, this was also partially because this book not only had more content, but the content it did have was so frickin’ dramatic. So much behind the scenes drama, […]

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9/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:117 |

A buddy review with my dear friend Alison, who is a great writer but doesn’t write very much, which makes me sad. #CBRBingo (2nd Bingo!)

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir by Elna Baker

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NOTE: This review is actually a buddy review with my former life partner slash roommate slash BFF who now lives very far away but we are still in a book club together, and I am making her write this with me so I can win at CBR BINGO because contests are fun and because PRIZES. We read this for our IRL book club last month and I am only reviewing it now. ______ Here’s the Amazon summary, since we didn’t do a good job explaining the premise: “It’s lonely being a Mormon in New York City. Every year, Elna Baker […]

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9/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:116 |

Horrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure

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

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Sometimes you come across a book that is so mind-blowingly good, you immediately go out and purchase every book ever written by the author. The Road to Jonestown was such a book. A huge, fat book that’s more than worth the effort, it tells you everything you ever wanted to know and more about the Reverend Jim Jones, his followers, just how he got hundreds of otherwise intelligent people to cede control of every aspect of their lives, and the sequence of events that led to the terrible loss of nearly one thousand lives in the Guyanese jungle. Starting with […]

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9/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:66 |

The girl behind the legend – CBR10 Bingo: Not my wheelhouse

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick

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This is my third time participating in the Cannonball Read and until now there has been only one non-fiction review, so it was easy to choose what genre was “not my wheelhouse” for CBR10 Bingo.  As my ten year old daughter is reading I Am Malala, and I’m trying to read what she is reading, this was a perfect fit. Before reading this book, I had very little knowledge of Malala beyond she was an advocate of girls education and had survived an attack from the Taliban.  Malala is very fortunate to have a progressive father, Ziauddin, and a supportive mother, Toor Pekai.  […]

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9/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |


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