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Lemondrop’s CBR #1: Holidays in Heck by P.J. O’Rourke

January 4, 2014 by Lemondrop Leave a Comment

One of my goals with CBR is to read more fiction (I’m mostly a travel/history/how-to/humor girl), but I’ve been wanting to get to Holidays in Heck for so long that it would have been impossible to make a concerted effort to read anything else first.  P.J. O’Rourke has been my favorite writer since I was too young to get most of the jokes.  Books like Holidays in Hell – a collection of essays from O’Rourke’s days as Rolling Stone‘s foreign affairs desk chief – are […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: humor, politics, travel

Lemondrop's CBR6 Review No:1 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: humor, politics, travel ·
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