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Not Quite Ready for Primetime

What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service by Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack

January 12, 2025 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Let’s face it, sometimes fandom can be a bit embarrassing. Embracing an artist or their work can often lead to excessive, irrational exuberance and other cringe-worthy behavior. Sometimes we embarrass ourselves in our behavior as fans, but perhaps more often, at least in my experience, we are embarrassed by the behavior of our fellow fans, who take things a bit too far and, in our opinion, reflect poorly on our own fanaticism. Much in the same way a Taylor Swift fan might want to distance […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack

jeverett15's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack ·
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The World Gone Mad

Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Kemper

January 12, 2025 by Pooja 2 Comments

The attack on Pearl Harbor was shocking and unexpected to the American public and government, but for Joseph C Grew, the American ambassador to Japan, it was the only logical outcome to a decade’s worth of missed opportunities for peace. For all the many times we rehashed World War Two in school, I never learned much about what led Japan to side with the Axis, and why they seemingly so suddenly launched into war with the United States – Pearl Harbor always arrived as a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, ARC, diplomacy, Japan, NetGalley, politics, Steve Kemper, World War 2

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, ARC, diplomacy, Japan, NetGalley, politics, Steve Kemper, World War 2 ·
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I Only Understood a Third of this Book but I Still Liked It

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

January 11, 2025 by esmemoria 2 Comments

Everything I’ve read by Albert Camus I have loved, and it is the same for The Myth of Sisyphus, only a portion of which I probably understood. From the back of the book: “[T]he essay presents a meditation on suicide–the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning.” As I understand it, in this book/essay, Camus uses the term “absurd” to mean the meaninglessness of the universe. It is through the acknowledgement of this absurdity that the limits of […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: albert camus, existentialism, Philosophy

esmemoria's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: albert camus, existentialism, Philosophy ·
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Reading it for a friend

The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts

January 9, 2025 by Sophia Leave a Comment

My first book of 2025 is an audiobook that I read for my book club. I wouldn’t have heard of it or chosen it on my own, but that’s (partly) what book clubs are for. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America (2021) by Elizabeth Letts is the story of Annie Wilkins and her horseback adventures from Maine to Hollywood, California. Annie was a 63-year-old farmer, on her own in Maine, and things were not […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Elizabeth Letts

Sophia's CBR17 Review No:1 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Elizabeth Letts ·
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I wanna be her when I grow up!

Wanda Hears the Stars: A Blind Astronomer Listens to the Universe by Amy S. Hansen, Wanda Diaz Merced and Rocio Arreola Mendoza

January 8, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Of course astronomers are not people we see a lot in biographies for children and especially women astronomers. But when you find a book called Wanda Hears the Stars: A Blind Astronomer Listens to the Universe you think, “Did I see that right? A female astronomer?”  Then you see the word “blind” and realize she was also blind. What the fudge…..????? And, yes, we read that right. Amy S. Hansen with Wanda Díaz Merced, and illustrated by Rocio Arreola  Mendoza created a book about Merced. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Amy S. Hansen, Amy S. Hansen, Wanda Diaz Merced and Rocio Arreola Mendoza, astronomers, astronomy, blind astronomers, Computer sound processing, disabilities, Hispanic & Latino, puerto rico, Rocio Arreola Mendoza, Scientists, Wanda Diaz Merced, Women astronomers

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:22 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Amy S. Hansen, Amy S. Hansen, Wanda Diaz Merced and Rocio Arreola Mendoza, astronomers, astronomy, blind astronomers, Computer sound processing, disabilities, Hispanic & Latino, puerto rico, Rocio Arreola Mendoza, Scientists, Wanda Diaz Merced, Women astronomers ·
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Three books of fun

Not a Monster by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

Not a Bean by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

Not a Dog by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

January 8, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While doing some browsing of the 2025 online readers I have access to, I found a few “not a series-series.” One series was about having a crazy parent (a mermaid and unicorn) or an odd teacher (a T-Rex dinosaur) and then I found another not a series-series about science. The first series was fiction and I also wanted a non-fiction book, so I was lucky I found both. The second series was found when I looked at a cover that was an axolotl. Yes! I […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: animals, Claudia Guadalupe Martinez, Laura Gonzalez, nature, science

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:20 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: animals, Claudia Guadalupe Martinez, Laura Gonzalez, nature, science ·
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