There has been enough digital ink spilled over the past couple of years about our culture's current fascination with the apocalypse and dystopian visions of the future that it sometimes seems that the apocalypse is going to come not when our ice cream machines can take no more of people insisting … [Read more]
ElCicco #CBR6 Review #1: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells: an Homage to P.G. Wodehouse by Sebastian Faulks
PG Wodehouse fans should be delighted by this novel. Faulks revives our favorite duo, Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, for a fun summertime romp at Lord Henry's country estate. At stake is the happiness of Bertie Wooster's friend Woody. His engagement to Lord Henry's daughter Amelia is in jeopardy due to … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:1 ·
Genres: Fiction ·
Tags: #CBR6, Bertie Wooster, ElCicco, Hugh Laurie, Jeeves, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, Jeeves and Wooster, Jerome K. Jerome, PG Wodehouse, Sebastian Faulks, Stephen Fry, Three Men in a Boat ·
Fiat.Luxury’s Review #1: The Purity Myth #CBR6
Feminism and modern evangelicalism, and the tension between religion's "ought" and human reality, are some of my favorite topics (hence my blog) so I was excited to finally pick up The Purity Myth. I expected to find a book that succinctly examined our cultural and subcultural obsession with the … [Read more]
Yup, Hurricane Katrina Was Horrible
CN: Talk of disaster and euthanasia If you’ve read my previous reviews, you might recall that I work in emergency preparedness. This book was on my radar for 2014, and was lent to me by a coworker before I left work on New Year’s Eve. I spent most of my day off yesterday reading it, and … [Read more]
Popcultureboy’s 1st #CBR6 Review: You Are One Of Them by Elliott Holt
Kicking off CBR6 with a highly engrossing story of two childhood friends, where one becomes an internationally known symbol for peace at the height of the Cold War tensions before tragically dying in a plane crash. Or does she? The book follows her best friend as she tries to find out … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:1 ·
Genres: Fiction, Mystery ·
Tags: #CBR6, Cold War, Elliott Holt, Russia, You Are One Of Them ·
Scootsa1000’s #CBR6 Review 1
I remember the day that I went to the library on the advice of one Mr. Stephen King and picked up a crazy little book called The Hunger Games. On that very same day, I also got a book called Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. I devoured both books and thought they were both pretty good. But I … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:1 ·
Genres: Fiction ·
Tags: #CBR6, Life As We Knew It, Scootsa1000, Susan Beth Pfeffer, The Shade of the Moon ·