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Canadian girl; collector of Pride & Prejudice; trying (unsuccessfully) to read the books I already own before buying more.

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She needs to write more. Immediately.

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

July 11, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

I can’t really say enough about this compelling little book. Brown unpacks white privilege in a way that made me feel convicted and challenged in the ways that I look at the world (through the eyes of a middle-class, white, Canadian woman), but does it with such grace that I wanted more. Not because it was comfortable, because it definitely was not, but because I know deep down that there are cultural biases ingrained in me that I need to address and unlearn. Privilege I […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here, Race

kella's CBR11 Review No:8 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here, Race ·
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I’m not really one for archery anyways…

The Last Arrow by Erwin McManus

July 11, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

Welp, before I jump into a bingo card, I should PROBABLY get caught up on my review backlog. <sigh> Here we go! I initially heard McManus at a conference, and he is a powerful and dynamic speaker. Then a couple friends suggested this as a book club option. I had read (and enjoyed) a couple of his other books, but this one fell a bit flat for me. The basic premise is to encourage people to not give up on their dreams, passions, and goals. […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: Erwin McManus, Motivation, Religion, Self-help, The Last Arrow

kella's CBR11 Review No:7 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: Erwin McManus, Motivation, Religion, Self-help, The Last Arrow ·
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…and then I creeped their entire family on Facebook.

Educated by Tara Westover

February 20, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

I added this as an impulse buy to an Amazon order because I kept seeing it pop up on so many “Best of 2018” lists. And for good reason. As many others have said, this book is phenomenal. Educated is Westover’s memoir; her story of growing up in an extreme, fanatical, Mormon household (no one was permitted to see a doctor, children weren’t enrolled in school, half of the kids didn’t even have birth certificates, etc). She eventually escapes from this life and goes on to […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Educated, Mormon, Tara Westover

kella's CBR11 Review No:6 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Educated, Mormon, Tara Westover ·
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Where my Enneagram nerds at?

The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher Heuertz

February 20, 2019 by kella 1 Comment

For those not familiar with the Enneagram, I don’t really want to take up a ton of space with that explanation here. Basically, it is an ancient system of categorizing folks into 9 types. It’s more than a personality test; it focuses on internal motivations, wounds, and passions. It recognizes that the ‘type’ that you are is really a self-preservation mechanism that you learned as a child in order to protect the real you. There is a TON of info out there about this, so […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: Christopher heuertz, Enneagram, the sacred enneagram

kella's CBR11 Review No:5 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: Christopher heuertz, Enneagram, the sacred enneagram ·
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“The first rule is don’t fall in love”…. guess what happens??

How To Stop Time by Matt Haig

January 20, 2019 by kella 1 Comment

I picked this up this afternoon as a cozy read during a snow day where work is cancelled and everyone is snowed in.   How To Stop Time is about Tom, a man who had a medical condition that causes him to age incredibly slowly. He’s not immortal, this isn’t played off as sci-fi or fantasy. He will eventually age and die, but in the meantime he is 439 years old and appears to be 41. The story takes us back and forth between present […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #history, Fiction, How to Stop Time, London, Matt Haig, Suspense

kella's CBR11 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #history, Fiction, How to Stop Time, London, Matt Haig, Suspense ·
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Meh. (yes, that’s literally the best title I can come up with for this one)

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

January 16, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

After reading Cannonballer Niki’s review of this book earlier this month, it cemented my decision to NOT read it. I had been wavering until that point; it kept being recommended to me as a “life changing read, like, omg”, but something about it never really sat right with me. Then I read Niki’s review, and it articulated & confirmed my hesitations, and I removed it from my Amazon ‘Save for later’ list (where it had been living for months). And then a bunch of women […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: girl wash your face, rachel hollis, Self-help

kella's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: girl wash your face, rachel hollis, Self-help ·
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