self care bingo – Page 3 – Cannonball Read 17

Horizontal is just the way some of us live

Horizontal Parenting How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down by Michelle Woo

July 27, 2021 by NTE 3 Comments

Guys: I don’t even know how to explain to you how validating this book is. I’ve been helping raise kids, while also living with chronic debilitating illnesses & disabilities for 27 years now. Very often, that raising occurs from a horizontal position, out of necessity. Oh, today we’re have vertigo for no goddamn reason? Great day to play Auntie NTE is the troll under the bridge who won’t let you pass. Oh, goodie, the treatment I had last week that was supposed to only have 1 […]

Burnout, or, Why to Stick It to the Man

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagoski

July 26, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

This is my “Self Care” bingo entry. I just finished reading Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski. I’ve read so many self-help/self-empowerment/self-care books, that I feel like Burnout wasn’t necessarily presenting me with information that I didn’t already know, but it was putting together information that I already know in a surprising way. Burnout is written by two sisters – Emily and Amelia Nagoski – and it is specifically aimed at woman-identified people and the specific stressors we […]

A pretty quick re-read but there’s no shame in that!

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

July 22, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Self Care: a book I’ve wanted to re-read for ages which I finally did–and little did I know that work was about to get rough, so it was well timed 😀 I’d had a pretty chill time of it at work, and thought I’d blow up my sleep schedule by starting and finishing this book in the time zone known as “GO TO SLEEP.” I’ve found myself wanting to re-read a whole subset of books for a while, and I’m thinking about giving myself a […]

Hauntingly awesome

Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima

July 22, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr13bingo Self Care Self Care to me is having fun. Halloween is fun (I mean CANDY????) and costumes (I have had more fun with costumes as an adult then I ever did as a kid, and I had some crazy fun costumes. Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother with her sign of qualifications anyone? Or years before, homemade paper mice in a cage (all connected) made by grandpa for the Cinderella costume?) Also, fun? Reading books. All types of books. Big ones, small ones, picture books, novels, poetry… […]

Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott (1994)

Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott

July 22, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR13Bingo – Self-Care A collection of essays and memoir pieces connected to writing that shares wisdom and thoughts on both writing and publishing. Mostly this collection is focused on publishing fiction, the slight irony being that I would argue that this book, in solitude, and maybe some of the nonfiction recent pieces, are 100% of how people think of Anne Lamott’s writing in general, and not her fiction. That said, the advice is funny and humane and solid throughout. I wish Anne Lamott would just […]

This book was supposed to help with my anxiety – not exacerbate it

Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

July 5, 2021 by postcardsandbooks 2 Comments

Watch me use my exceptional capacity of being a slacker to my own advantage when I profit off my backlog of 10+ unreviewed books to tick boxes off the CBR Bingo card like it’s nobody’s business. This was not planned, by the way – I’m just a slacker by nature. And to be honest, this is actually very much in line with the theme for this particular book, which is supposed to be all about managing anxiety. For those of you who don’t know Matt […]

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