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Rambling around the internet; helping niblings maneuver through college, learn their ABC's and deal with middle school (usually all on the same day); reading to remain alive.

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“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything.”

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

I Remember Nothing & Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

April 4, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, audiobook, humor, i feel bad about my neck, I remember nothing, Nora ephron

NTE's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, audiobook, humor, i feel bad about my neck, I remember nothing, Nora ephron ·
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Book Cover, Stanley Tucci in black & white facing camera, title & author's name visible

“Actually,” Stacy says, “Stanley Tucci is everyone’s type.” I nod in solidarity. “Amen.”

What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci

Taste: My Life in Food by Stanley Tucci

March 31, 2025 by NTE 1 Comment

The title quote is from Julie Murphy’s , If the Shoe Fits, which I think marks the first time I’m using a pull quote for a review that is not from either of the actual books I am reviewing, but I can’t really help it when someone else has communicated the truth so clearly.  In What I Ate in One Year, speaking about his friend & fellow actor Andrew Scott, Stanley Tucci muses “Can someone be too good at something? I mean, so good, that everyone else […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #food, eating, Stanley Tucci, taste, What I Ate in One Year

NTE's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #food, eating, Stanley Tucci, taste, What I Ate in One Year ·
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So glad I made it past the late 90s, I would’ve been an embarrassing ghost then.

Grave Expectations by Alice Bell

The Crime Brulee Bake Off by Rebecca Connolly

March 15, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

You ever just start scrolling down your library’s “available now” page, even though you have eleventy-seventy thousand books in your TBR mountain? Yeah, me too. And that’s how I wandered into two pretty good, but out of my usual genre, cozy-ish mysteries that I came here to recommend. They’re both debut novels, and I read them on audio – They have the same narrator, Sophie Roberts, who did such a great job w/The Crime Brulee Bake Off, and that I clicked her name to see […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Alice Bell, baking show, cozy, crime brulee bake off, England, Grave Expectations, mystery, rebecca connolly

NTE's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Alice Bell, baking show, cozy, crime brulee bake off, England, Grave Expectations, mystery, rebecca connolly ·
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Cover, Loud, by Drew Afualo, Picture of Samoan woman,, hand covering her mouth, with colorful concentric circles behind her.

“If no one is going to remind you that you are worth more than all of these awful men combined, I will.”

Loud: Accepting Nothing Less than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo

March 15, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

If you don’t follow Drew Afualo on TikTok, your FYP is doing you dirty, because Drew is a delight. I mean, for me, anyways.  Not so much for the ignorant, the misogynistic, the bullies, the shit talkers. For them? Drew is – or she should be – the absolute last person they hope to see. And she revels in it, as is obvious in her book Loud: Accepting Nothing Less than the Life You Deserve. The book is rooted in her work on her platform […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: activism, drew afualo, feminism, feminist, loud

NTE's CBR17 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: activism, drew afualo, feminism, feminist, loud ·
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Is there anything more we can ask of a romance than for it to make us feel swoony? 

Georgie All Along by Kate Clayborn

October 28, 2024 by NTE 1 Comment

Once upon a time, I told a story about myself. And maybe if I can make some of that story come true—Buzzard’s Neck, The Bend, whatever—I’ll be closer to writing a new one.   Much like how I’m finding younger heroines less relatable, I think I’ve also reached the point in my reading life where perfect/mostly perfect main characters are no longer that interesting to me.  True, the saintly, virginal, personifications of perfection that populated many of the books that blooded me (as the folks […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Georgie All Along, Kate Clayborn, new bff, Romance, romcom, swoon

NTE's CBR16 Review No:3 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Georgie All Along, Kate Clayborn, new bff, Romance, romcom, swoon ·
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“She might be less than what she had once been, but she was still worth a hell of a lot.”

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

October 7, 2024 by NTE 2 Comments

The older I get, the more out of touch I feel with the twenty-something heroines in certain books. The romance genre especially has a lot of really young heroines, and my 45-yr-old self has a hard time, sometimes, not rolling her eyes at just how young they actually are/act, or how implausibly far away 27 feels at this point. Which is not to say that I am ready to read only the quiet, cozy mysteries that seem most populated by people older  – and still […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Featured, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: assassins, Deanna Raybourn, funny, killers of a certain age, mystery, spies, women

NTE's CBR16 Review No:2 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Featured, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: assassins, Deanna Raybourn, funny, killers of a certain age, mystery, spies, women ·
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