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yes, but…maybe she’ll make an exception and WE can meet?

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

May 24, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

My alarm goes off at 5:50 a.m. First thing I do is check to make sure I’m not dead. If I am, in fact, still alive, I usually sob uncontrollably until there’s nothing left in my tear ducts but salt dust, then grope blindly through my apartment to the bathroom, where I say a little prayer for a hole to open beneath my building and swallow us all. First of all: same. Second: you must read this collection. Second–and-a-half: by read I mean listen. Samantha […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: audio, essay collection, lgtbqia, read by the author, Samantha Irby

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:46 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: audio, essay collection, lgtbqia, read by the author, Samantha Irby ·
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It was always exactly that bad

Not That Bad by Roxane Gay

March 15, 2021 by kimberleybear Leave a Comment

[Read as an ebook from the public library] I tend to avoid books like this, because I suppose I’m yet another product of exactly what these essays address: Nothing that has ever happened to me has ever been that bad, and nothing makes that clearer than reading the experiences of others. But that’s the point of collections like these. It is that bad. It’s always been that bad. The fact that we have to consistently work to squash and minimize and fit and qualify and […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: essay collection, feminist, rape culture, Roxane Gay

kimberleybear's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: essay collection, feminist, rape culture, Roxane Gay ·
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“It’s because I’m tired of being branded a terrorist; tired that a human life lost in my country is no loss at all.”

Our Women on the Ground: : Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir

March 13, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Looking back, I can’t quite remember how this book ended up on my TBR back in February 2020. It did though and I’m glad to have read it, even if it took me longer than I hoped to actually complete it. There is something incredibly valuable about learning a story from the person experiencing it; of seeking out authentic voices and sources. In bringing Our Women on the Ground, Zahra Hankir puts the voice of women journalists from the Arab world front and center, where […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Arab World, essay collection, journalism, Middle East, North Africa, our women on the ground, read women, women journalists, works in translation, Zahra Hankir

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Arab World, essay collection, journalism, Middle East, North Africa, our women on the ground, read women, women journalists, works in translation, Zahra Hankir ·
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A Tolentino Gateway Drug

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

November 12, 2020 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

My boss bought me Trick Mirror, a collection of nine essays by The New Yorker, Jezebel, and The Hairpin writer Jia Tolentino, for my birthday this year. As usual, she’s gifted me something meaty to absorb that suits my tastes well. The collection of essays in Trick Mirror includes a range of topics spanning marriage, the 2016 election and Trump presidency, life as a teen reality tv ‘star’, Big Tech, and religion. But it’s not just a bunch of millennial naval-gazing reflection. This is a well-researched, sourced, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: essay collection, feminist, Jia Tolentino, millenial

Caesar's Wife's CBR12 Review No:21 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: essay collection, feminist, Jia Tolentino, millenial ·
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eating vegetables: the essay collection

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

January 23, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Now here me out: there are lots of reasons to eat vegetables. Sometimes your body is in revolt because you’ve had nothing but pizza all weekend. Sometimes you’ve made a new commitment to “take better care” of yourself. Sometimes you just really want some kale, damn it. Sometimes you just want to smother some broccoli in neon-orange-movie-theater-nacho cheese. Vegetables are good for you, vegetables are tasty, they can be prohibitively expensive- especially if fresh, but sometimes you just have to fight your way through a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: 2016 Election, drugs, essay collection, essays, feminism, Jia Tolentino, late stage capitalism, Marriage, millennial, Religion, Sexual Assault

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:9 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: 2016 Election, drugs, essay collection, essays, feminism, Jia Tolentino, late stage capitalism, Marriage, millennial, Religion, Sexual Assault ·
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Cover of Nice Try by Josh Gondelman

“Reading…is fun to do and it lets you feel superior to other people.”

Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman

January 2, 2020 by NoNeinNyet 5 Comments

Josh Gondelman has been one of my favorite comedians for a while now. I often fall asleep to comedy albums and specials. His second album, Physical Whisper, is frequently in the bedtime rotation and his more recent album, Dancing on a Weeknight, also makes its way in from time to time. He is one of my favorite Twitter people (@joshgondelman). I was so excited when my library hold on his memoir, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, finally became available. Gondelman begins […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cbr12, essay collection, Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, non fiction

NoNeinNyet's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr12, essay collection, Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, non fiction ·
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