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An important book about race and social awareness.

What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo

May 7, 2017 by bonnie 2 Comments

Lollygagger’s most excellent and comprehensive review of Robin DiAngelo’s What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy made me eager to read it for myself. I’m linking to the original review, which I will then build on. Back? Okay, let’s get started. DiAngelo builds on concepts of racism with which we are all familiar and then talks about how being white constructs a specific racial framework through which white people see race, racism, and other precepts of culture and context. Specifically, she […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Anti-Racism, bonnie, Robin DiAngelo

bonnie's CBR9 Review No:66 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Anti-Racism, bonnie, Robin DiAngelo ·
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A satisfying conclusion to an interesting series

May 7, 2017 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I’m sufficiently depressed that several of my favorite new series (Jennifer Donnelly’s Waterfire saga, Mary Robinette Kowal’s Glamourist Histories, now this) are coming to an end. I thought the aforementioned two ended on a great note, and I was really hoping that Marie Brennan would do the same. With the last volume, In the Labyrinth of Drakes, Brennan was great on the intrigue and very light on the dragons, which is what we came for. I was really, really hoping that she would give us […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, Marie Brennan

bonnie's CBR9 Review No:65 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: bonnie, Marie Brennan ·
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A depressing but necessary book about rent evictions

May 7, 2017 by bonnie Leave a Comment

Because I’ve been reading about All The Cheerful Things apparently, I decided to pile on and read the Pulitzer-Prize winning Evicted about landlords and tenants in Milwaukee. I’ve tried to remain fairly secretive about my origins, but I do think it important to note that I lived 17 years of my life in Wisconsin, 12 of those specifically in the Milwaukee suburbs. I did my PhD in Milwaukee, as well, though I commuted out-of-state for that, and Marquette, my school, was right at the center […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, matthew desmond

bonnie's CBR9 Review No:64 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: bonnie, matthew desmond ·
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The last Carrie Fisher. Sadly, it’s not the best Carrie Fisher.

May 7, 2017 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I’ve been waiting for about two months for the library audiobook hold to come through, and it finally arrived! And then, of course, I was busy with podcasts and other listening flotsam before I made my way to Carrie Fisher’s final book. It was a bittersweet experience, partly because it was the last, and partly because it wasn’t the best. Fisher discovered some old diaries that she had written while filming the first Star Wars film and decided to write a book about that experience, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: bonnie, carrie fisher

bonnie's CBR9 Review No:63 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: bonnie, carrie fisher ·
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Looking on with a shame and confusion we can’t identify.

May 7, 2017 by bonnie 1 Comment

I have tried diligently to avoid trailers for the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, because I wanted to avoid the hype and feeling disappointed (I’m *very* disappointed Hulu renewed it for a second season, because it should be a one-and-done deal. Like, where else are you going to take this story? ANYWHOO). I decided before I started the Hulu series that I needed to re-read the book, because it had been about 5-6 years. HOLY SHITSNACKS YOU GUYS. I told my husband […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, Margaret Atwood

bonnie's CBR9 Review No:62 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bonnie, Margaret Atwood ·
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The book that ate up April.

May 7, 2017 by bonnie Leave a Comment

Welcome to the book that ATE APRIL. I might be exaggerating a little bit, but it felt like it lasted forever. [Goodreads has rudely informed me that it was only nine days, but still. I have a triple cannonball to get through, and this DID NOT HELP] B chose this for our May book club pick, and I was intrigued by the story, having seen trailers for the film adaptation and heard whisperings from my family circle that it was “about abortion!” I come from […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, John Irving

bonnie's CBR9 Review No:61 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bonnie, John Irving ·
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