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> Tag: Randall Monroe

Non-Fiction EOY Review Dump

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom

Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui

Real Queer America by Samantha Allen

Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly

Fed Up by Gemma Hartley

meaty by Samantha Irby

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

How To by Randall Monroe

Food by Jim Gaffigan

December 31, 2021 by Nannerbears 1 Comment

I’m making a final push to wrap up CBR13 with my non-fiction review dump. I read more non-fiction this year than I thought I did, and I was never able to sum up my thoughts properly. I’m trying here, with just moments left!  Food | Jim Gaffigan Although I disagree with Mr. Gaffigan’s take on mustard, I still enjoyed reading Food. It’s a simple take on food — the good, the not so good, how it shapes us and our culture. It was extra light […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Health, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bonnie Tsui, Brené Brown, Elizabeth Kolbert, Gemma Hartley, Jim Gaffigan, multiple reviews, Rachel bloom, Randall Monroe, samantha allen, Samantha Irby, Soraya Chemaly

Nannerbears's CBR13 Review No:27 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Bonnie Tsui, Brené Brown, Elizabeth Kolbert, Gemma Hartley, Jim Gaffigan, multiple reviews, Rachel bloom, Randall Monroe, samantha allen, Samantha Irby, Soraya Chemaly ·
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Impractical knowledge is still knowledge!

How To by Randall Monroe

October 30, 2020 by crystalclear 1 Comment

I need to stop having expectations for books.  I thought this was going to be more like his book What If? which had strange situations and then gave a scientific method of answering the question.  This is taking a theoretically normal problem, but then solving it (still scientifically) in the weirdest and most impractical way possible.     (The version I have is an ARC, and I’m reading it on my phone, so things don’t always line up correctly. Which isn’t great, but hey, I didn’t […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr12, cbr12bingo, non fiction, Randall Monroe, science

crystalclear's CBR12 Review No:31 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr12, cbr12bingo, non fiction, Randall Monroe, science ·
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