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]
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Americanah
Last year I read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, which is a brilliant fictionalized portrayal of Nigeria before and during the civil war, and was blown away by both the story and her writing. Once I heard she had this new book out, I put myself on the 70-person wait list for … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:3 ·
Genres: Fiction ·
Tags: #CBR6, Americanah, Immigration, Nigeria, Race, Racism ·
Sci-fi as Literature: Matter by Iain Banks
It often takes only a few interesting elements to make a science fiction story successful … [Read more]
Diet book lovers, unite
I am a sucker for diet books; if you struggle with your weight at all, you will understand when I say, the promise of losing weight is really the promise of a better life. Of course it … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:3 ·
Genres: Health, Non-Fiction ·
Tags: diet, diets don't work, eating, Gabriel Method, nutrition, weight ·