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“By making me a bitch, you have freed me from the trite, sexist, bourgeois prison of ‘likability.’ Any idiot can be liked. It takes talent to scare the crap out of people.’

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim

June 28, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 23/30 This was great. I’m not normally a fan of celebrity memoirs, because in my experience the books are often being written just because the celebrity wants to write a book, and there’s no literary reason for the book to exist. I don’t mean that in a snobby way, but more in the way that said celebrities just don’t have anything to say, or they think they have something to say but they are often wrong. Alison Arngrim […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Alison Arngrim, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Little House on the Prairie, narfna, narrated by the author, non fiction, television, tv

narfna's CBR14 Review No:91 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Alison Arngrim, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Little House on the Prairie, narfna, narrated by the author, non fiction, television, tv ·
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Okay, but really, you should read this.

The End of Bias: A Beginning by Jessica Nordell

June 24, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 18/30 Yep, still catching up on my April reviews. This one has been holding me up because the book was very good and very smart and those two things by themselves nearly always stymie me in my review-writing, but together it’s just a recipe for disaster. Brain frozen, words will not come. So I am starting this review—which I need to get out of the way because I want to be caught up on reviews before I […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Jessica Nordell, narfna, non fiction, Psychology, science, social science, the end of bias, the end of bias: a beginning, the science and practice of overcoming unconscious bias, unconscious bias

narfna's CBR14 Review No:86 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Jessica Nordell, narfna, non fiction, Psychology, science, social science, the end of bias, the end of bias: a beginning, the science and practice of overcoming unconscious bias, unconscious bias ·
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“If you get killed in America, there is a 38 percent chance your killer won’t be caught.”

Chase Darkness With Me: How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen

June 11, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 17/30 Yessss, I am still catching up on reviews from books I read in April. My goal is to be caught up by the end of June; we’ll see if I can do it, especially since in July I’m going to try and read the most amount of books I’ve ever read in a month (31!). It is going to be a Project.* *I am attempting to do this feat because I want to see if I […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, audiobooks, billy jensen, chase darkness with me, how one true crime writer started solving murders, narrated by the author, non fiction, true crime

narfna's CBR14 Review No:85 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, audiobooks, billy jensen, chase darkness with me, how one true crime writer started solving murders, narrated by the author, non fiction, true crime ·
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A Family History

Seven Aunts by Staci Lola Drouillard

May 12, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Author Drouillard tells the history of her family in recent generations through the lives of her seven aunts, four on her mother’s side and three on her father’s. I’ve always been interested in family histories, because no two are the same – that, and that there are generally a lot of secrets to uncover and I am a nosy sort of person. The fact that Seven Aunts is so wholeheartedly focused on the lives of the women in the family, tracing their parallels and divergences, made it […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #biography, #memoir, ARC, family history, NetGalley, non fiction, Staci Lola Drouillard

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:64 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #biography, #memoir, ARC, family history, NetGalley, non fiction, Staci Lola Drouillard ·
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Behind the Veil of Perfection

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

April 24, 2022 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

This is a book that’s going to stay with me for a while.  In Hidden Valley Road, Robert Kolker details the story of the Galvins: A family of twelve children, made up of 10 boys and two younger girls. And in the first part of the book, we learn how six of those 10 boys, six went on to develop a form of schizophrenia.  The eldest of these boys, Don Jr, was born at the closing of WW2. An average student but a rather enthusiastic […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: hidden valley road, mental illness, non fiction, Robert Kolker, schizophrenia

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: hidden valley road, mental illness, non fiction, Robert Kolker, schizophrenia ·
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“A society that does not respect women’s anger is one that does not respect women; not as human beings, thinkers, knowers, active participants, or citizens.”

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly

April 12, 2022 by narfna 6 Comments

“Is it possible to read a book about anger and not get mad? I haven’t found it possible in writing one. What are we doing? Why does anyone think that men who cannot say the word ‘period’ and do not know that the vagina and stomach are not connected are competent and trustworthy leaders?” I want to get my thoughts out before my book club meeting tomorrow (during which I have been told we will be smashing things! with protective eyewear*). I almost feel like […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction Tagged With: anger, audiobooks, feminism, gendered language, narfna, non fiction, Non-Fiction, rage becomes her, read by the author, Soraya Chemaly

narfna's CBR14 Review No:48 · Genres: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction · Tags: anger, audiobooks, feminism, gendered language, narfna, non fiction, Non-Fiction, rage becomes her, read by the author, Soraya Chemaly ·
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