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Flawed Protagonist

Sam Houston and the American Southwest by Randolph B. Campbell

May 25, 2020 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Any digging into the past dredges up shameful events and ideas. In 2020 this is especially true in the South. A mix of racism, cruelty, xenophobia, tribalism, and more is immediately obvious. That’s no secret. There are bright spots, though. People like Sam Houston remind us that even in dark times one has the ability to stand up for principles and humanity. Therefore, this book contains some hypertimely encouragement for summer 2020. The first lesson I took is that Houston did what he wanted to, […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: #history, American History, Randolph B. Campbell, Texas

Halbs's CBR12 Review No:27 · Genres: History · Tags: #history, American History, Randolph B. Campbell, Texas ·
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Field Hockey+ Varsity Blues + Dazed and Confused + Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

We Are the Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian

May 24, 2020 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Found this one mentioned in an article in my BookPages at my library, back when we could go to libraries regularly and grab magazines others had touched without much worry. Remember those days? Wow. The article pitched this one as an all-nighter adventure of a women’s high school field hockey team. I didn’t play field hockey,but I did play lacrosse. It seemed like a fun romp through memory lane. Teams love hijinks! I think on a psychological level team hijinks help us understand the strength […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Sports, Young Adult Tagged With: field hockey, Siobhan Vivian, sports

Halbs's CBR12 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: field hockey, Siobhan Vivian, sports ·
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The Tao of Daisy Duke

Open Book by Jessica Simpson

April 28, 2020 by Halbs 1 Comment

I’m roughly the same age as Jessica Simpson, although prior to reading Open Book I didn’t know much about her other than that she had a reality show with Nick Lachey in the 2000s. She also played Daisy Duke in the Johnny Knoxville/Sean William Scott movie Dukes of Hazzard. (I saw that in theaters.) Since I love a good celebrity autobiography, I gave this one a shot. Glad I did, because it only took a few days for me to listen to the whole audiobook. Open Book […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Alcohol, body image, Jessica Simpson, John Mayer, Nick Lachey, Pop Music

Halbs's CBR12 Review No:25 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Alcohol, body image, Jessica Simpson, John Mayer, Nick Lachey, Pop Music ·
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We have a diet-culture epidemic

Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison

April 25, 2020 by Halbs Leave a Comment

This is probably the last food/body/eating book I’ll review for some time as, honestly, I’m tired of thinking about it! If you were to go through all of my Goodreads list in the last few years you’d see a sort of accidental autobiography of health and body phases – the “Wellness Diet” phase (Whole 30, keto, various “lifestyle” books, etc), then some disordered eating books, and then acceptance books like Intuitive Eating, Caroline Dooner’s The F It Diet, and finally this one. I’m glad I’m wear […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: body image, body positivity, Christy Harrison, fat acceptance, Health at Every Size

Halbs's CBR12 Review No:24 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: body image, body positivity, Christy Harrison, fat acceptance, Health at Every Size ·
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“There is no necessary tradeoff between empathy and assertiveness.”

Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level by James K Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin

April 24, 2020 by Halbs Leave a Comment

This is a nice little gem of a negotiation book. Harvard Negotiation Project’s James Sebenius and his co-authors spent a lot of time and research delving deep into the subject and the mind of the man. They look not just into the substance of Henry Kissinger’s negotiation history but also into his specific tactics and philosophy of negotiation. Kissinger himself wrote the foreword to this book and apparently was pretty candid with the authors as they researched and interviewed him. Perhaps most importantly, they also […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ford, Henry Kissinger, James K Sebenius, James K Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin, Nixon, R. Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin, Vietnam, world history

Halbs's CBR12 Review No:23 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ford, Henry Kissinger, James K Sebenius, James K Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin, Nixon, R. Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin, Vietnam, world history ·
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For all y’all hippie monks

New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

April 16, 2020 by Halbs 1 Comment

This book has been on my shelf for years. Since we’ve been home more than a month and I have the spiritual space to sit down with this kind of dense nourishment, I finally took the plunge and fully engaged with Thomas Merton. He’s something of a legend to Christian contemplatives, sort of like the Keith Richards of monks. Wise, somewhat cantankerous, expansive and global in his conception of God, God’s purpose, and destiny of people. A hippie monk. In New Seeds of Contemplation, Merton […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: Christianity, Contemplation, god, Thomas Merton

Halbs's CBR12 Review No:22 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: Christianity, Contemplation, god, Thomas Merton ·
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