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“I couldn’t talk about my happiness without touching the uncomfortable truth that everything I have now is built on everything I lost.”

No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny

July 11, 2019 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: True Story Nora McInerny knows loss. In the space of a few weeks she lost a pregnancy, her father, and her husband. In the aftermath she wrote a memoir, It’s Okay to Laugh, and started a podcast, Terrible, Thanks for Asking, both of which were well received and successful. She was suddenly an expert on navigating grief and often called upon to talk about it. But then a crazy thing happened. She fell in love again. And within a few months they were […]

“We know each other to the bone”

One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin

July 7, 2019 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Not My Wheelhouse (It’s part memoir, part sociology, part parenting guide.) I likely never would have picked this up if I didn’t have identical twins. Now I’m a mother I do read parenting books to give me some idea of what the hell I am doing but I tend not to gravitate to the memoir side of things. I want hard facts: this is how you raise your kid so they’re not a sociopath, and not: this is my story but we’re all […]

Who Are You?

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle* by Stuart Turton

July 2, 2019 by Carriejay 1 Comment

Bingo Square: Reading the TBR In the crumbling country house of Blackheath during a party, Evelyn Hardcastle takes her own life. Except she didn’t. And it’s on Aiden Bishop to find out what really happened. Only instead of a straight forward murder mystery he’s stuck in a time loop, living the same day over again but in different host bodies, able to see events from different perspectives and question guests about their whereabouts. But there are others trapped in the same predicament and only one […]

Male as the default human

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

June 24, 2019 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

Our world is run on data. From the economy to healthcare to education we use numbers to allocate resources and make decisions. But there’s a blindspot in our data, and it’s huge: gender. Data doesn’t take women into account and uses men as the default human, leading to bias and discrimination across the board. Women pay for this bias in time, in money, and often with their lives. Caroline Criado Perez has gathered as much data as possible (often difficult because such data doesn’t always […]

Impossible Woman

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

June 15, 2019 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

In July 1979, Daisy Jones and The Six, a rock n roll band, were at the height of their success. Yet after a concert in the middle of the tour the band broke up, cancelling the rest of their dates. This book attempts to discover why that happened, taking us back to the days before the band had made it, when Daisy Jones and the band known as The Six were separate entities. Told more like an extended article or oral history, the book allows […]

But seriously, f*ck politeness

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark

June 12, 2019 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark are the hosts of the incredibly popular podcast My Favorite Murder. Along with gruesome tales of horror every week, they also chat about their own lives, hardships they’ve had, and what led them to start this podcast in the first place. They’re funny and interesting and aren’t bothered with always being correct in the telling of their stories. When you listen to them it’s like you’re hanging out with your buds chatting about the things that scare you. I was […]

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