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Um…Hockey?

Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League by "Cleo Birdwell" (Don DeLillo)

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Well then. I’ve wanted to read this book for a long time and I’ve tried many times. I’m a diehard New York Rangers fan and I thought a fictional take on what it would be like to be a female Ranger would be a blast. But after 10 pages, I soon realize that’s not what “Cleo Birdwell” (aka Don DeLillo) is going for here. This book is really about sex. Lots and lots of sex. Sexual exploration, etc. Which is fine. I’m not a prude. But wanting to read about one thing (hockey, the Rangers, gender dynamics) and instead getting […]

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7/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:65 |

“I fell in love at a bad time.” Clio in Orpheus Girl

Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry

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#cbr11bingo #remix First, I will say, this book may have some trigger moments (The italics is taken from Good Reads: There are scenes in this book that depict self-harm, homophobia, transphobia, and violence against LGBTQ characters. As well as the images of the “treatments”). And then I will say that this review is not all positive and possibly not politically correct. It might go against what you personally believe, but this whole review is how I feel about Brynne Rebele-Henry’s book Orpheus Girl. There is a lot to like, but an equal amount to dislike. Therefore, this is a book […]

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7/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:269 |

Many self-loathing. Such love. Wow.

Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James

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Hi. My name is Anastasia Rose Steele. This is totally an actual person name and not made up in any way. I go by Ana, as in pro-Ana, because we share a sense of destructive self-loathing. Anyhoodle, can I just tell you about this totally charming guy I met? I hated him the first time I saw him. It was love at first sight. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. First of all, with my trim frame and my luscious brown hair and my ability to ensnare a Fortune 500 CEO simply by tripping over my own […]

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1/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

I wanted to laugh more!

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler

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cbr10bingo… Alabama Pink I listened to this book, which I think is the optimal way to read it.  It wasn’t narrated by Chelsea, but the narrator was good.  I read this for cbr10bingo, and it was my Alabama Pink choice.  I remember when CBR first started, and I thought “there’s no way I can read that many books”, and now I’m on my fourth CBR and kicking ass.  I love it.  Bingo is a new and exciting twist this year that’s just making me want to read more! Anyway (I bet “anyway” is the most used word in my reviews), […]

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9/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

Take my wife….go on, take her.

Thy Neighbour's Wife by Gay Talese

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I first heard about Thy Neighbor’s Wife when watching Netflix’s Voyeur, a documentary about author Gay Talese and a man who’d bought a motel solely so he could peep on the activities of those renting rooms. I found Voyeur fascinating, and so when I came across this on offer, I thought I’d give it a go. Thy Neighbor’s Wife is a big, fat book, delving into the sexual mores of the American public, and the efforts of lawmakers to govern these, from the mid-twentieth century up until the seventies (before the spectre of AIDS). Talese charts the changing attitudes and […]

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7/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:55 |

All About the Birds. And the Bees. And the Arthropods. And Anyone Else Desperate Enough to Pen a Letter.

Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson

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I’m about to undertake a big move shortly, which means I’m currently going through most of what I own, trying to work out what needs to go in storage what can be palmed off to other people, and what I need to sell. For most of my books, they’ll end up with either my sister or a younger family member. Which comes to my re-read of Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: can I successfully pass this off to a twelve-year-old without upsetting her Dad? With this book, Olivia Judson has come up with a clever way to explain […]

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5/20/2018 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

Evolutionary Biology is on notice

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine

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3.5 stars I like Cordelia Fine and her work. Part of that, I’m willing to admit, may be confirmation bias — she clearly identifies herself as a feminist and is very upfront that her work is reflective of that viewpoint. But I was also trained as a scientist, and from that perspective my position is that many of her critics and detractors (and I’ll note here that for brevity’s sake I’m not including in this category people who have fundamentally sexist views and who probably simply cannot be reached) have crucially misunderstood the overarching theme of Fine’s research. Testosterone Rex […]

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2/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

The snoring, the rain, and Mama’s hair that smells like bread.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

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I feel incredibly robbed not to have found this book when I was mid-adolescence, when I would have reveled in empathy with Esperanza, the beautiful, awkward, sad, scared, bold, shy, lonely, social narrator who is coming-of-age through the course of the year during which The House on Mango Street takes place. Cisneros writes this book as an extended series of short vignettes: portraits of people, places, and things in Esperanza’s life; all the things that make up the tapestry of her youth. With these vignettes, she builds such a rich, complicated, understandable, hard world of puberty which mixes easily into […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:52 |


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