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A buddy review with my dear friend Alison, who is a great writer but doesn’t write very much, which makes me sad. #CBRBingo (2nd Bingo!)

September 28, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

NOTE: This review is actually a buddy review with my former life partner slash roommate slash BFF who now lives very far away but we are still in a book club together, and I am making her write this with me so I can win at CBR BINGO because contests are fun and because PRIZES. We read this for our IRL book club last month and I am only reviewing it now. ______ Here’s the Amazon summary, since we didn’t do a good job explaining […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cbr10bingo, Elna Baker, essays, humor, narfna, Non-Fiction, Religion, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir

narfna's CBR10 Review No:116 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr10bingo, Elna Baker, essays, humor, narfna, Non-Fiction, Religion, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir ·
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Adventures of a Mormon looking for love in Manhattan

January 17, 2018 by Polyesque 2 Comments

When I first saw this book in Borders, I was intrigued by the cover and when I read about a Mormon gal on her own in the Big Apple, I was even further intrigued. Given that I just name-dropped Borders, that’ll give you an idea of how long ago it was that I picked it up. Pretty sure it was around 2010. But something made me keep it through a move from New Jersey to Mississippi, then back to New Jersey. Then to Memphis. Then […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Elna Baker, memoirs

Polyesque's CBR10 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Elna Baker, memoirs ·
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