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Dear Diary; nature has gone haywire

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

December 29, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

A young Native American woman learns that she is pregnant in a time of miracles and disaster; nature has gone haywire. Evolution has sped up, gone sideways, and/or stopped all together. Times are trying. It is a particularly frightening time to be a single person with an unplanned pregnancy- especially when religious-esque government agents are collecting and imprisoning pregnant women. Our narrator, Cedar, gives us her story through the pages of her diary. She is keeping accounts of her body and the world around her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: adoption, Catholicism, cultural identity, dystopian future, evolution, handmaid's tale, Louise Erdrich, magical realism, marital law, miracles, Motherhood, native voices, reproductive rights

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: adoption, Catholicism, cultural identity, dystopian future, evolution, handmaid's tale, Louise Erdrich, magical realism, marital law, miracles, Motherhood, native voices, reproductive rights ·
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Still No Kids For Me, Thank You

Why Have Kids by Jessica Valenti

August 27, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I first became aware of Jessica Valenti back around undergrad when I started reading a few feminist blogs, Feministing being one of them.  Feministing was never my favorite one – it was more like reading a collection of news, reporting on lots of different things with multiple posts a day while other blogs had fewer articles but more in depth analysis of those topics. I don’t remember if Valenti stood out to me, or if she even posted that much or was more involved in […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: feminism, Jessica Valenti, Motherhood, why have kids

Jen K's CBR11 Review No:51 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: feminism, Jessica Valenti, Motherhood, why have kids ·
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Motherhood by Sheila Heti

May 22, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I have been providing quotations from the books I am reading as the headline for each of my reviews. Same here. One conceit in the novel is that probing questions about choices involving having a child or not are answered in the style i Ching of flipping a coin yes/no. So this is a quotation. It’s also my review. No thank you. I should have known going in, but as the narrator suggests “I thought the book was a trick, but it tricked me” or […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Motherhood, sheila heti

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:161 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Motherhood, sheila heti ·
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Please excuse me while I furiously try to make my cannonball goal

December 28, 2016 by tillie 3 Comments

The joys of motherhood brilliantly illustrates why we write entire novels. Sometimes worlds, feelings, transitions, people, countries cannot be captured by a sole sentence or even a review. This books wrenched my heart, stole my breath and carried me through hope and despair, lives and worlds. It made me reevaluate my relationships with other people. It made me mourn the depravity of the world. It made me dance with hope of the good in life. “In Ibuza sons help their father more than they help […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Africa, Mathildehoeg, Motherhood, Nigeria, women

tillie's CBR8 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Africa, Mathildehoeg, Motherhood, Nigeria, women ·
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An Important Voice

April 4, 2016 by Ale 8 Comments

I’m taking a non-fiction elective this semester, and one of our required readings is “A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother.” I knew nothing about it before opening it, and as a person who’s already a little bit terrified at the idea of someday being responsible for the survival of another human being, this book hit me hard. The prose is absolutely beautiful. Cusk’s words flow out naturally and accessibly even as she’s unpacking serious emotion, and I blew through this book in about two […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cusk, Motherhood, Non-Fiction

Ale's CBR8 Review No:7 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cusk, Motherhood, Non-Fiction ·
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A book about friendship, motherhood and pies

August 8, 2014 by Malin Leave a Comment

Veronica Russo lives in Boothbay Harbour in Maine. She’s a waitress at the local diner and also makes insanely delicious pies, that are very popular among the people in town. She even has pie-making classes. When she was sixteen, she got pregnant and had to give her baby up for adoption. She still feels as if some of the people she grew up with judge her for this, but is trying to get on with her life. She can’t help but think about the baby […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, Colin Firth, contemporary fiction, family, Finding Colin Firth, Malin, Mia March, Motherhood, pies

Malin's CBR6 Review No:82 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, Colin Firth, contemporary fiction, family, Finding Colin Firth, Malin, Mia March, Motherhood, pies ·
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