What would happen if the rotation of the earth slowed? Beyond the physical effects on the earth, what changes would occur socially? How would a young person moving into their teen years deal with both the transition to adulthood and a crumbling society trying to stay afloat? This book came … [Read more]
The Raven Boys – Solid paranormal YA.
Full disclosure: I love YA. If I manage to make it through this year and challenge, I'm willing to bet that the majority of my reviews will fall into that category. No shame! The Raven Boys has been on my list of books to read for quite some time. I finally got a copy and, at first, wasn't sure … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:1 ·
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction ·
Tags: fantasy, Maggie Stiefvater, magic, YA, Young Adult ·
Jen K’s Review #1: Hitler’s Furies
The idea behind this book was to explore the role of women in Nazi Germany, and how they participated or collaborated with the regime, only to be mostly ignored in the post war time years, while instead the myth of the German martyr women, victims of rape and air attacks on the home front took hold. … [Read more]
Dystopian fiction rarely goes this deep
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]