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Siskel & Ebert Get the Biography Treatment

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

August 28, 2023 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

The core of Opposable Thumbs is the relationship between Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and how it turned into the entity “Siskel & Ebert” that still dominates the movie review and criticism landscape more than a decade after the death of its last surviving member. It is the nature of that professional relationship, born from a natural wellspring of competition, which turned into decades of increased media literacy. It began in earnest on a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, when the two men met for lunch […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: ARC, At the movies, cbr15bingo, Matt Singer, movie criticism, Opposable Thumbs, read harder challenge, Relationship, Siskel & Ebert

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: ARC, At the movies, cbr15bingo, Matt Singer, movie criticism, Opposable Thumbs, read harder challenge, Relationship, Siskel & Ebert ·
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“For most autistics existing in a world not built for them, anxiety is the baseline and constant background hum that their daily life has to play over.”

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

August 17, 2023 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

Before this book I knew Fern Brady not at all. She’s made a name for herself between the UK comedy and television scenes, and while I enjoy a British panel show I’ve managed to miss Brady entirely. I decided to request this book from NetGalley based purely on the fact that this is a memoir of a woman who was diagnosed with autism as an adult and that’s a story I am very interested in. Like Brady, I too do a reasonably convincing impression of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: autism, autism representation, cbr15bingo, Fern Brady, late diagnosis, meltdowns and shutdowns, on the air, read harder challenge, Strong Female Character

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: autism, autism representation, cbr15bingo, Fern Brady, late diagnosis, meltdowns and shutdowns, on the air, read harder challenge, Strong Female Character ·
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“her wounds came from the same source as her power”

The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich

March 26, 2023 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Poetry is a genre that I have a terrible time reviewing but in my personal quest to keep reading the genre – and not give up on it – I find myself trying to about once a year. The Dream of a Common Language is the first one of 2023 for me (I have at least one other poetry collection on my TBR for the year) and while I’ve known about its existence since I read Cheryl Strayed’s Wild back in 2012, it took a […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Adrienne Rich, authors favorite books, feminist, poetry, read harder challenge, The Dream of a Common Language

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: Adrienne Rich, authors favorite books, feminist, poetry, read harder challenge, The Dream of a Common Language ·
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“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

January 27, 2023 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I’m nearly a decade late to The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. It has been on my to read list since 2016 and got pushed to the top tier of the pile last year for the Read Harder challenge (as it does take place in a big way in a bookstore). Then I never got to it but seeing that there was a movie adaptation out I decided to get my proverbial act together and dig into the story.   The book tells […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a little romance, adoption, death and dying, Gabrielle Zevin, movie adaptation, read harder challenge, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a little romance, adoption, death and dying, Gabrielle Zevin, movie adaptation, read harder challenge, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry ·
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“The fifth glass is unarguably clean. Especially because Haf has been pretending to scrub at a stain that isn’t there, like a horny Lady Macbeth wanting to prolong the moment.”

Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

January 2, 2023 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

I love the fake dating trope, so I was pleased as punch that November’s Illumicrate Afterlight book was Make You Mine This Christmas, even more so when forced proximity and all the bisexual chaos enter the equation. The story focuses on Haf who has been having a terrible year and lets her roommate convince her to join them at crashing a Christmas party they may or may not have been invited to. It’s at that party that Haf meets Christopher and following feeling badly for […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: debut, disaster bisexuals, fake dating, first in a series, holiday romance, Lizzie Huxley-Jones, queer romance, read harder challenge, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Romance · Tags: debut, disaster bisexuals, fake dating, first in a series, holiday romance, Lizzie Huxley-Jones, queer romance, read harder challenge, we need diverse books ·
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“I believe in a kind of holiness in our connection to everything on Earth. Holy is the mouse. Holy is the grain the mouse eats. Holy is the seed. Holy are we.”

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

November 26, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I am an outlier on this work. Yaa Gyasi writes like a motherfucker and I will continue to seek out her work, but this book just wasn’t for me. Transcendent Kingdom aims for big, heavy topics but its treatment of them never feels more than surface level. This work stands in stark contrast to Homegoing, and while I can see the impulse to go for a different tack there’s such a bare bones approach to the very heavy topics that Transcendent Kingdom attempts to wrangle […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Addiction, faith and science, read harder challenge, Religion, sophomore slump, transcendent kingdom, Yaa Gyasi

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:70 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Addiction, faith and science, read harder challenge, Religion, sophomore slump, transcendent kingdom, Yaa Gyasi ·
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