The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read by David Sundin
When good words go bad you get this book. This book is called The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read by David Sundin. The nonsense is trying to be clever but falls flat. However, there will be a reader some place, somewhere, that will say that this is the most wonderful and fantastic book ever. This is not a book for everyone. It is a book for that one person who has an odd sense of what a good book is. While I […]
Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves
Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves
Cold Earth review (4 stars) This was a disappointment. I know that the series was obviously moving to a Willow/Jimmy pairing, it just didn’t work for me in the end. And it didn’t help that the case got overshadowed by the will they, or won’t they parts. The actual mystery was good in this, but think that after centering the victim, it seemed as if the author/via Jimmy stopped caring about her when it came out what she was really doing in Shetland. Which leads […]
The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine
So I finished this book back in January, but I just re-read a summary of the book to refresh my memory. Ugh. My brain is reminding me how much I disliked this book too! The basic story is about a woman (Addison) who’s engaged to a great sounding man. He’s a nice, smart, intelligent guy with a good job, a pretty good family, a nice house, and he’s financially comfortable. Addison on the other hand has a menial job, she’s pretty nice, has almost zero […]
So I did a terrible job with my CBR reviews the past two years. I did fine from 6 through 11, then I think I totally skipped 12, and did a few reviews in 13. Year 12 was the start of the pandemic though (2020), so I’m cutting myself some slack! It was also the first year of my job where I was basically doing 2 jobs at once. One of those jobs was writing complex investigations, so the last thing I wanted to do […]
Money by Jacob Goldstein
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson
Mind of my Mind by Octavia Butler
The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber
Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn
A Fanatic Heart by Ron Rosenbaum
How Civil Wars Start by Barbara Walter
My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood
Time and Free Will – 5/5 I am not a philosopher or even particularly well-read in philosophy, so this review is more from the perspective of someone with a literature background, and who is used to using philosophy to serve the aims of literature and philology. This book is particularly suited to the task because through early breakthroughs (or perhaps just ideologies) in psychology — specifically he references William James (and it’s possible he mentions Freud, but I don’t recall it specifically) — to better […]
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Olive Smith is a Ph.D. candidate working on her thesis at Stanford and really has neither the time nor the inclination for anything romantic. However, she did briefly date a guy who her best friend is now gaga over, and because Olive needs to convince her BFF, Ahn, that she is well and truly over said guy, she lies and claims she dating someone else. However, since her friend remains skeptical, Olive needs somebody she is supposedly dating, and this is how she ends up […]
