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Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

February 15, 2014 by narfna 6 Comments

On this my third reading of this book, I thought I'd try something a little bit different for the review. It was either this or wax poetic like the ex-graduate student that I am, and nobody here wants to read that. (Not to mention, they don't let you curse in graduate level writing, which is one of … [Read more]

narfna's CBR6 Review No:9 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: charlotte bront, classics, feminism, gothic, jane eyre, josephine bailey, kate beaton, letters to fictional characters, Literature, narfna, Victorian ·

King of the severed hands

King Leopold by Adam Hochschild

February 15, 2014 by lyndamk 3 Comments

This work describes King Leopold II’s land grab of the Congo River area during the scramble for Africa of the late 19th century, which led to the deaths of 8 to 10 million Africans, the destruction of their societies, and the devastation of the area’s wild rubber plants. Each chapter takes on a … [Read more]

lyndamk's CBR6 Review No:4 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Africa, lyndamk ·

A Well Spun Yarn

Wool by Hugh Howey

February 15, 2014 by Scootchyknees 2 Comments

Wool is one of those futuristic, dystopian, post-apocolytpic, insert your own buzzword here, type books that I'm sure is packaged as a three-book series...(checking internets)...yep, it's called the Silo Series and also includes the novels Shift and Dust. Despite my sarcasm, this was a book I … [Read more]

Scootchyknees's CBR6 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: genericwhitegirl, Hugh Howey, The Blist, Wool ·

Attention All Cannonballers!

February 15, 2014 by MsWas Leave a Comment

We were down due to some issues with our hosting company's technical support crew. So some posts have been deleted, and some are missing text. Please go and check your posts. If something is missing, let me know and I will try to retrieve it. I can restore most of what was missing, except if it was … [Read more]

MsWas's CBR6 Review No:0 · Genres: News from MsWas · Tags: ·

Are You Kidding Me, Another One?

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

February 14, 2014 by Marc 3 Comments

There's a chance that if you're reading this review, you might not be an active participant in Cannonball Read 6. Maybe you didn't sign up, unsure of whether or not you could participate to your satisfaction, or you missed the deadline, or you just wanted to cheerlead from the sidelines, or any … [Read more]

Marc's CBR6 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half ·

Countdown City

Countdown City by Ben Winters

February 14, 2014 by Vylotte Leave a Comment

If you knew the world was going to end, that you and everyone else had only 74 days left to live, what would you do? Would you hunker down, hoard what you could and hope for the best? Abandon everything you knew and run for the nearest beach? Or perhaps set up residence at a library and read as fast … [Read more]

Vylotte's CBR6 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

ElCicco on A bit of a mixed bag (and a complete Passport!)I looked at the other reviews after I posted mine and it seems not to have gotten a lot of love here! I didn’t hate...
narfna on A bit of a mixed bag (and a complete Passport!)Oh, man, I HATED this one. It's so funny how books hit people differently.
Emmalita on “I should just follow you clowns around…Find all the trouble in the galaxy that way…”It’s very good, but it’s the second book in the series. Shards of Earth is the first book.
kat on “I should just follow you clowns around…Find all the trouble in the galaxy that way…”I think I will read this [wpd-giphy id='znreqlPeGdikLLB2C4' subdomain='media0' width='195' height='270']
Kit Moonstar on When You Don’t Know What To Do, Sometimes a Cup of Tea Is the Right Place To Start.Not intentionally, but my first four books all are tea themed. I may have to see if I can find a connection to tea in...

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