Big news of the month, vel veeter has tied badkittyuno’s single year record with her 263 review (by my count)! Congratulations vel veeter! On with the stats! June stats: 283 reviews (June 2016 saw 252 reviews) Average rating: 3.72 stars (May: 3.64) Most popular book: Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman (4 reviews,3.50 average,) Most popular author: Stephen King (7 reviews, 4.30 average) Most reviews: vel veeter (congratulations on 34 reviews!) Fiction: 215 reviews (May: 223) Nonfiction: 66 reviews (May: 54) Uncategorized: 0 reviews (May: 2) Most popular genres: Fantasy (52 reviews), Young Adult (26) Science Fiction (29), Romance […]
We Should Have Been Reading the Issues
Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can Explain by Chelsea Cane, Kate Niemczyk, Joelle Jones, Ibrahim Moustafa
Yes, I have been hoovering up graphic novels like mad while I have this trial membership. It’s been great. But move over Thor, Patsy, Jessica, and Red Sonja, I have a new fictional girl crush – Bobbi Morse, Mockingbird. She starts off looking like Battle Barbie, but she is a paragon of science, smarts, sarcasm, and kicking. She still looks like Battle Barbie at the end what with the long blond hair and blue eyes, but I’m ok with that. When Bobbi was little, she wanted to be a superhero and tried everything to develop super powers. None of it […]
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7/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:69 | 
| Tags: Chelsea Cane, I Can Explain, Kate Niemczyk, Marvel Comics, Mockingbird Vol 1 | Category: Graphic Novel/Comic | 0 Comments
When God Gets Lost in Translation
The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner
“The Grammar of God” by Aviya Kushner is Ms. Kushner’s experience reading the Bible in English for the first time. Ms. Kushner isn’t an immigrant, in face she’s from New York, but until she began graduate school she had never read the Bible in a language other than Hebrew. When she begins her class on the English Bible, she learns, from the very first verse in Genesis, that the experience of reading the Bible in English is not the same as she has experienced the Bible in Hebrew. She embarks on a journey to explore some of the subtle and […]
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7/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:32 |
A for Method, D for Conclusions
What is the Bible? by Rob Bell
Have you ever respected someone for their method but disagreed with their conclusions? That’s how I felt toward Rob Bell in this book. As a practicing Christian, and one who’s interested in the Bible as a book and a source of inspiration, I’m interested to learn more about it. Too many times the Bible has been hijacked by fundamentalists who ignore literary, historical, and social contexts in order to prove a point. Personally, I don’t believe this is how it should be used, nor was intended to be used. Mr. Bell begins by taking a random verse about Moses and […]
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7/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |
The Least Thriller, Thriller
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
I had a conflicted reading of this book. Part of it was that the book was billed as a mystery/thriller and that’s not what was delivered. The book starts with some New York elites preparing to leave their summer homes on Martha’s Vineyard on their private jet. We quickly meet the characters who will become the crux of the story: the media mogul and his family, banking scheister and his wife, the pilot, co-pilot, flight attendant, and the struggling artist. The plane crashes (not a spoiler, it’s given away on the book jacket) and only the artist and the media […]
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7/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |
This is what KA demands.
The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
I couldn’t tell you whether it’s because I have finally given in to this journey, or whether it’s that the telling gets stronger as King’s writing matures, but riding this wave has become comfortable, easy, and more and more thrilling. I probably should (but choose not to) brace myself for the next book, Wolves of Calla (Book 5), because this one, The Wind Through the Keyhole (Book 4.5) was written eight years after the final book of the “The Dark Tower” series. I had a choice to make: read it where it fits chronologically with the story, or chronologically with its writing. […]
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7/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 | | Tags: aslan, bigass snake, billy bumbler, Dark Tower, eddie, jake, King, king arthur, maerlyn, merlin, mid-world, mutie, muties, narnia, old people, oy, randall flagg, roland, skin man, starkblast, Stephen King, susannah, tiger, tyger | Category: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror | 0 Comments
Come for the Science; Stay for the End Notes
The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean
Sam Kean is my favorite science writer, for a few reasons. For one thing, he is a complete mad man about research. In chapter 2 of The Disappearing Spoon, Kean records the longest word in the English language. This champion of all English verbiage turns out to be a word that describes a protein on the first virus ever discovered and measures 1185 letters. (I’m not going to record it here because proofing that shit would take up the rest of my day.) What impresses me about this tidbit is not just that Kean set down specific parameters for what […]
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7/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |
Helping Us Figure Out Why Buildings Cause Such Visceral Reactions
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
Best for: People not that familiar with architecture who are interested in learning about it in a philosophical way. In a nutshell: Author de Botton takes the reader through a lovely journey exploring how the buildings we inhabit can help fill missing pieces in our lives, and impact how we feel. Line that sticks with me: “The buildings we admire are ultimately those which, in a variety of ways, extol values we think worthwhile.” (p 98) Why I chose it: I bought this long ago. It’s survived multiple book purges and moves, but I finally opened it up because I’m […]
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7/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:54 |
An Image of an Image.
Unfinished by Elizabeth Periale
Disclaimer: I received a copy of Unfinished through a CBR giveaway in return for a prompt and honest review. Other Disclaimer: The author is a Cannonballer, so I was going to find something nice about this book. I didn’t have to look hard, it is a fantastic graphic novel. I wouldn’t call myself a Marilyn Monroe buff, but I do know a lot about her. She is an icon and a cultural touchstone. As such, a lot of her humanity has been stripped away. You could argue that she was always viewed as an object, a blank slate sex goddess […]
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7/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:68 |