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Two Takes on Religion and Politics

Life On the Fringes by Haviva Ner-David

Take This Bread by Sara Miles

September 25, 2023 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

                                                        CBR15Bingo: Politics (feminism, inter-community politics, personal politics) Both of these texts engage with what religion means to the writer and how they engage with their religious communities with a more radical and transformative mindset. Reading them in close succession was an interesting look into how feminist, progressive religious women struggle to find their place within structured organizations. However, they are coming from two very different faith traditions and two very different personalities as well. As someone who reacts strongly with the personality of the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Religion Tagged With: #memoir, cbr15bingo, feminism, halacha, Haviva Ner-David, Judaism, Othodox Judaism, Sara Miles

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:45 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Religion · Tags: #memoir, cbr15bingo, feminism, halacha, Haviva Ner-David, Judaism, Othodox Judaism, Sara Miles ·
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A Strong Second Book in a Delightful Series

Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher

September 25, 2023 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR15Bingo: On the Road (a lot of this book takes place on the road) I continue my slow progress through this trilogy, having read the first one about a year ago and loved it. I then got the next two for either Christmas or my birthday last year and then they sat on my shelf waiting for the opportune moment to strike and whisk me away to a delightful fantasy-romance-mystery realm. Well, last week was the time and I zipped right through this one. Honestly, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr15bingo, mystery, Romance, t kingfisher

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr15bingo, mystery, Romance, t kingfisher ·
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A Brief Collection of Great Photographs

The Photo Essay: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark by Mary Ellen Mark

September 25, 2023 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR15Bingo: Africa (contains images and information about the Ethiopian famine of 1985) I love photojournalism / photo stories so I was interested to get this book of Mary Ellen Mark’s work. This is a series of books that the Smithsonian did of “photographers at work,” with this volume containing an interview with Mark and a variety of her photographs. I am a big Mary Ellen Mark fan so I was excited to get more insight into her process and how she approaches photography. The selection […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr15bingo, Mary Ellen Mark, photography, Photojournalism, portrait photography

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:43 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr15bingo, Mary Ellen Mark, photography, Photojournalism, portrait photography ·
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Nancy wins!

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

September 24, 2023 by KimMiE" 4 Comments

CBR15 BINGO: Hold Steady, because Nancy holds steady until she finds that missing will and saves the day! Note: I read the 1959 edition. A few weeks ago I posted a review of the first Hardy Boys mystery and started a friendly debate about who was better: the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew. It had been a long time since I’d read any of these mysteries, but I remember, as a youngster, having a slight preference for the novels featuring the more feminine detective (I’m […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Carolyn Keene, CBR15, cbr15bingo, children's lit, KimMiE", mystery novels, Nancy Drew

KimMiE"'s CBR15 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Carolyn Keene, CBR15, cbr15bingo, children's lit, KimMiE", mystery novels, Nancy Drew ·
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I have questions about the pumpkin dip

Spectacular Spreads by Maegan Brown

September 24, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 24: Getaway from South America I’m swapping my free space for South America mostly because I don’t really have the time to go find something that fits, since I haven’t got anything immediately in mind.  What I have instead is a cookbook, which I like to read both for fun and for use, by one of two board book writers I actually liked enough to try recipes from. It turns out that TheBakerMama Maegan Brown has at least two books out beyond Beautiful Boards, […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: cbr15bingo, cookbook, entertaining, Maegan Brown, Spectacular Spreads

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:79 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: cbr15bingo, cookbook, entertaining, Maegan Brown, Spectacular Spreads ·
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If there’s flying, there’s plot going on

Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett

September 24, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 23: Take the skies Telepathy is essentially brainwave communication, wireless and thus air-born communication. Telepathy or shared mental space is also a major factor in Locklands. Also, a good chunk of time is spent is what might be this world’s very first “airplane”. A key thing to know about Locklands is that it is the third of a trilogy, so a lot of the tech/magic references and some critical background plot will not make sense without the first two. There’s been s several year […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr15bingo, Founders trilogy, Locklands, magical engineering, mind sharing, Robert Jackson Bennett, Speculative Fiction

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:78 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr15bingo, Founders trilogy, Locklands, magical engineering, mind sharing, Robert Jackson Bennett, Speculative Fiction ·
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