Since my mother has been recommending Fool by Christopher Moore to me for years (which I still haven’t read – sorry, Mom), I picked up Lamb for some light holiday reading. Levi who is called Biff has been resurrected by the angel Raziel two thousand years after his death to write the next Gospel of Jesus’ life. Biff first meets Joshua (the original translation of Jesus’ name) when they are six years old living in Nazareth and sticks with him throughout the rest of their […]
Lemondrop’s CBR #1: Holidays in Heck by P.J. O’Rourke
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 […]
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