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There’s Nothing More Ill-Mannered than Loving Your Own Wife

Sex and Scandals in Georgian England by John Rankin

October 5, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

In the Georgian era, where infidelity was widespread –  even expected – among the aristocracy, scandals still resulted, but not necessarily for the reasons one would expect. With the new resurgence of interest in Regency romances, I’ve been struck pretty often how wide of the historical mark some stories can be. The costumes of season three of Bridgerton also makes me wince (I still love Queen Charlotte’s ridiculous wigs though!). But reading Sex & Scandals in Georgian England reminded me that, while it’s one thing to know […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, ARC, England, John Rankin, Marriage, NetGalley, non fiction

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:60 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, ARC, England, John Rankin, Marriage, NetGalley, non fiction ·
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Dispatches from the Frontier

Little Pasture on the Prairie by Eliza Blue

October 5, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Work – In this book, the author discusses her life and work on her family ranch, where she is a shepherdess, and all the highs and lows of that lifestyle. Author, songwriter, and shepherdess Eliza Blue invites us into her life on her family ranch in South Dakota as told in the highlights from a decade of newspaper columns. I’ve always lived in places that are hilly or places that are green or places that are both hilly and green. I think if […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, animals, cbr17bingo, Eliza Blue, farming, non fiction, short stories, United States

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:59 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, animals, cbr17bingo, Eliza Blue, farming, non fiction, short stories, United States ·
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“Off On An Interesting Adventure”

Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy by Janet Wallach

September 14, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Borders – Marguerite crosses the borders of many countries during her work as a journalist and spy, but also crossed the boundaries that constrained women in this era in both her work and her personal life. After being widowed young, Marguerite Harrison plunged into work as a journalist, but her charm and her adventurous spirit leads her into a more covert role as a spy. My understanding of the history of American spycraft is mostly limited to the hijinks of the OSS during […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #biography, #history, 1930s, cbr17bingo, espionage, Janet Wallach, non fiction, travel

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #biography, #history, 1930s, cbr17bingo, espionage, Janet Wallach, non fiction, travel ·
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly

August 24, 2025 by Pooja 3 Comments

CBR17 Bingo: Rec’d – I picked up this book after a recommendation by the true crime podcast Last Podcast on the Left, which used this book as a source for its series on the Black Death. The impact of the Black Death upon medieval Europe was astounding in its scale, but the effects it had on an individual level can get buried under the sheer number of the dead. In this book, author Kelly skillfully excavates them. The Black Death is one of those things […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, cbr17bingo, disease, europe, John Kelly, medicine, Middle Ages, non fiction, science

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:44 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, cbr17bingo, disease, europe, John Kelly, medicine, Middle Ages, non fiction, science ·
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Cover of You Wanna Be On Top, featuring a plastic doll head looking sad

“If I could be who you wanted / All the time”

You Wanna Be on Top? A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model (2025) by Sarah Hartshorne

August 10, 2025 by drmllz Leave a Comment

Bingo square: Border. This memoir is about the blurriness of the border between the real and fake, mainly on what we call reality television, but also within trauma-inflected memory. The way I ate this up, as the youth who were born after Sarah Hartshorne’s stint on America’s Next Top Model (2007) would say. Of course, said youth would immediately identify the toxicity of the show (which took me well over a decade to figure out) and make a pithy 8-second TikTok call-out–although they might also […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, America's Next Top Model, cbr17, cbr17bingo, drmllz, LGBTQIA, non fiction, Pop Culture, reality TV, Sarah Hartshorne

drmllz's CBR17 Review No:9 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, America's Next Top Model, cbr17, cbr17bingo, drmllz, LGBTQIA, non fiction, Pop Culture, reality TV, Sarah Hartshorne ·
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Crying in H Mart

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

July 25, 2025 by llp Leave a Comment

This memoir had been on my radar for some time, but I just wasn’t sure if I had the emotional wherewithal to read a book about losing your mother to cancer. I had been thinking about it ever since I watched Michelle Zauner’s band, Japanese Breakfast, play on Saturday Night Live (sidebar: I looked it up to see when that performance occurred, and it was in 2022. WHAT EVEN  IS TIME). However, when I had to do a very quick book shop to get something […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cbr17, cbr17bingo, Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, non fiction

llp's CBR17 Review No:8 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr17, cbr17bingo, Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, non fiction ·
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