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“And never underestimate the importance of even just a little bit of progress.”

Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman

May 23, 2019 by faintingviolet 4 Comments

I’ve intended to read this book for some time. Down in the depths of my depression fellow Cannonballer Siege mentioned on Facebook one of Rachel Hoffman’s tips to Unf*ck Tomorrow Morning – put a little toilet cleaner in the bowl before bed. It was such a small thing, but cleaning my bathroom had become my Impossible Task and it helped get that under control that week and lift the cloud of depression just a little bit.  I knew instinctively that any author who would a) […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ale, cleaning, emmalita, faintingviolet, impossible task, Rachel Hoffman, Siege, Unf*ck Your Habitat

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:22 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ale, cleaning, emmalita, faintingviolet, impossible task, Rachel Hoffman, Siege, Unf*ck Your Habitat ·
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“But because the universe is a cat, and I am but a fuzzy ball of string”

Dating You/Hating You by Christina Lauren

May 23, 2019 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

This is a case of its me, not the book. I see all the positive things in this book that have made it so well reviewed here at Cannonball Read but I still just can’t get myself to settle in and enjoy it. After nearly a month off and on I’ve given myself permission to walk away for now. I might come back to it at some point – I really do like the characters and plot framework the authors are working with – but […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Christina Lauren, Dating You Hating You, faintingviolet, Hate to Love

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:21 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Christina Lauren, Dating You Hating You, faintingviolet, Hate to Love ·
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“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”

Normal People by Sally Rooney

May 12, 2019 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

It has been a long time since I absolutely demolished a novel in less than 24 hours. I had waited months for my turn to come up on the library hold list for Normal People so a soon as I officially finished Good Omens I ignored the other books sitting on my kitchen table and settled in to see what jeverett15 and dAvid experienced that led them both to rating it so highly. I very quickly understood and am myself rating it five stars, rounding […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: faintingviolet, Normal People, read harder challenge, reading women 2019, Sally Rooney

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: faintingviolet, Normal People, read harder challenge, reading women 2019, Sally Rooney ·
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“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

May 12, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I often avoid reviewing a Book Club book before our discussion to save what I have to say until the conversation, or because I’m not sure what I want to say and am hoping the discussion will help clarify it for me. When I do review ahead of time I find myself leaving amorphous reviews without much substance, reviews that I look back on and think, but what did I really get out of that reading experience? I’m hoping not to fall into either camp […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: book club, faintingviolet, good omens, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:19 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: book club, faintingviolet, good omens, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch ·
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“Are we going for an anchor or a compass? A memory to ground you, or a spark to guide you forward?”

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

April 30, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

In early April I made the choice to put my limited free time (so, so limited in late March and early April) into a complete rewatch of Game of Thrones before the series came back for its final series. I also picked up and put down two different books earlier this month, just not feeling any of them. When it was time to travel for Easter, with a total of four flights, I reached for a sure-fire winner: A Closed and Common Orbit. I loved […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: a closed and common orbit, Becky Chambers, faintingviolet, future science, LGBTQIA, reading women

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:18 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: a closed and common orbit, Becky Chambers, faintingviolet, future science, LGBTQIA, reading women ·
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True Story of Two Little Girls

Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling

March 29, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Sometimes you read a book because you should. This is one of those books. I truly enjoy YA on the whole, but I have a tough time with Children’s or Middle Grades books. I can absolutely see their good qualities and how their intended audience would likely sink into them, but maybe I don’t enjoy them now because I didn’t read many of them when I was that age (I was a late reader and then I flew up to reading adult books in a […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: education equality, faintingviolet, Jane Addams Book Award, Japanese internment, Sylvia & Aki, Tomas Rivera Mexican American Book Award, Winifred Conkling

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:16 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: education equality, faintingviolet, Jane Addams Book Award, Japanese internment, Sylvia & Aki, Tomas Rivera Mexican American Book Award, Winifred Conkling ·
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