Full disclosure: Hend Hegazi rules, and I am friends with her. Big whoop, wanna fight about it? This is Hend's first novel (I love writing "first" because I hope she corrals her kids in the hall closet long enough to write another one). Don't expect me to be objective. It's not … [Read more]
This book is indeed quite heavy
Allie Brosh can convey so much emotion in her drawings; they seem rudimentary at first glance, but just look at this: And this! She is amazing. I wanted to love this book; oh how I wanted to … [Read more]
We Need New Names
I recently moved to Malawi, so as part of this year's Cannonball I'm going to include at least ten books by African writers. Last year I started with Chinua Achebe's classic Things Fall Apart and then picked up Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and then the superb Half of a … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:4 ·
Genres: Fiction ·
Tags: African literature, NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names, Zimbabwe ·
Never volunteer for medical testing.
I love me some Christopher Brookmyre. And every time I think I've read everything of his, something else pops up that I've missed. … [Read more]
In Which I Address My Intellectual Vulgarity
As someone who has been reading romance novels virtually non-stop for two years, I have a lot of feelings on the subject. As a successful writer in the genre, Maya Rodale has feelings and actual research on the subject. I purchased her thesis, Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance … [Read more]
When neighbors stop being polite…
"In the old days, if a builder had a problem, that problem would end up in pieces in the wet concrete: it became part of the building it had tried to obstruct. A bit of calcium was good for the foundations. But those days were gone: the lawless days of the 1980s and '90s." (321) The White Tiger … [Read more]