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“I look for something else I could do for work but feel unqualified for everything interesting and repulsed by everything else.”

The New Me by Halle Butler

April 12, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

This very moment was the correct time for me to charge through this nasty (a compliment!) little slice of life. There was a time, not too long ago, that the crippling desperation of Millie would have felt far too familiar. There is a lot of Hannah Horvath (Girls) in Millie, and I found Girls very hard to stomach when I too was young, squandering privilege, and living like a recluse outside of my seriously uninspiring job. “Everyone thinks deep in their hearts (at least when they’re young, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adulthood, black humor, Chicago, Depression, ennui, fast read, Halle Butler, rage, temp work, unreliable narrator

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adulthood, black humor, Chicago, Depression, ennui, fast read, Halle Butler, rage, temp work, unreliable narrator ·
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Un.Be.Lievable.

Imbeciles by Adam Cohen

February 10, 2020 by octothorp 2 Comments

This is one of those books like The Handmaid’s Tale that you probably shouldn’t read while angry. Because DAMN, I’m just gonna lead with the horror – Buck v. Bell HASN’T BEEN STRUCK DOWN. This book follows the eugenics-led case to sterilize Carrie Bell because, in the words of presiding Supreme Court Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes “three generations of imbeciles are enough.”  Except. Except. Except, you guys. She wasn’t. Her daughter wasn’t. Her mother wasn’t. She was inconvenient to her adoptive parents because she fell […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Adam Cohen, injustice, oliver wendell holmes, rage, what the hell

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:19 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Adam Cohen, injustice, oliver wendell holmes, rage, what the hell ·
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