Showing posts with label non-fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label non-fiction. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 October 2023

CBR15 Book 63: "We Should All Be Feminists" by Chimamande Ngozi Adichie

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Page count: 65 pages Rating: 4 stars CBR15 Bingo: Africa Not going to lie, I originally planned to read Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, but as we we...
Sunday, 8 October 2023

CBR15 Book 51: "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Johnson

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Page count: 320 pages Rating: 4 stars CBR15 Bingo: Queer Lives In July, the Forever Young Adult Reading Challenge prompt was Banned Books. ...
Monday, 10 May 2021

#CBR13 Book 13: "Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema" by Lindy West

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Page count: 272 pages Rating: 4 stars Official book description: New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once th...
Sunday, 10 January 2021

#CBR13 Book 1: "The Princess Diarist" by Carrie Fisher

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Page count: 267 pages Audio book length: 5 hrs 10 mins Rating: 3.5 stars On the 27th of December 2016, Carrie Frances Fisher, probably best ...
Monday, 12 October 2020

#CBR12 Book 74: "Solutions and Other Problems" by Allie Brosh

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Page count: 528 pages Rating: 5 stars Back in 2013, Allie Brosh published Hyperbole and a Half   named after the blog she kept (and has fin...
Thursday, 24 September 2020

#CBR12 Book 60: "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen

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Page count: 528 pages Audio book length: 18 hrs 12 mins Rating: 4 stars #CBR12 Bingo: Music Official book description: In 2009, Bruce Spring...
Saturday, 26 October 2019

#CBR11 Book 77: "The Vagina Bible: The vulva and the vagina - separating the myth from the medicine" by Jennifer Gunter

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Page count: 432 pages Rating: 4 stars Official book description: Does eating sugar cause yeast infections? Does pubic hair have a func...
Monday, 29 July 2019

#CBR11 Book 54: "We Are Never Meeting in Real Life" by Samantha Irby

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Page count: 288 pages Audio book length: 9 hrs 17 mins Rating: 4 stars #CBR11 Bingo: The Collection Official book description: Some...
Saturday, 22 June 2019

#CBR11 Book 30: "Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World" by Rachel Swaby

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Page count: 288 pages (but I only read about half) Rating: 3 stars From Goodreads: Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of hist...
Monday, 4 March 2019

#CBR11 Book 6: "Born a Crime: Stories of a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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Page count: 304 pages Audio book length: 8 hrs 44 mins Rating: 4 stars In this very engaging autobiography, Trevor Noah opens up about...
Saturday, 1 December 2018

#CBR10 Book 104: "Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It". Edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O'Shea

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. Page count: 186 pages Rating: 4 stars #CBR10Bingo: Two Heads Are Better Than One So my final review of #CBR10Bingo requires some as...
Monday, 18 June 2018

#CBR10 Book 45: "Hamilton: The Revolution" by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

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Page count: 285 pages Rating: 5 stars A quick search suggests that this book has been reviewed for Cannonball at least eight times alre...
Friday, 1 December 2017

#CBR9 Book 107: "Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know" by Emily Oster

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Page count: 310 pages Rating: 4 stars Since not all the readers of my blog are necessarily also readers over on the Cannonball group bl...
Wednesday, 5 July 2017

#CBR9 Book 60: "Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies" by Hadley Freeman

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Page count: 352 pages Rating: 3 stars It's been about a month since I finished this, and I've long since had to return my copy ...
Thursday, 23 February 2017

#CBR9 Book 13: "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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Page count: 304 pages Audio book length: 6hrs 29 mins Rating: 4.5 stars When it was announced that Neil Gaiman was doing a book of Nor...
Monday, 23 January 2017

#CBR9 Books 4 and 5: "84 Charing Cross Road" and "The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street" by Helene Hanff

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Combined page count: 230 pages Rating: 5 stars In October 1949, New York writer sends off a letter to a bookshop in London, Marks &...
Sunday, 18 September 2016

#CBR8 Book 103: "As You Wish: Inconcievable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride" by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden

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Page count: 259 pages Audio book length: 7hrs 1 min Rating: 4 stars The Princess Bride is my favourite film. Probably of all time. As...