In this fractured, fearful and uncertain climate, one woman is challenging the status quo, speaking truth to power, and asking the questions the system doesn’t want you to ask. That woman is Jessi Klein. Her question: “Seriously, did Richard Gere shove a gerbil up his butt? Like all the way up there? Whatever, I’m just going to believe it’s true.” Now, I’m not going to pretend the occupancy status of American Treasure Mr. Richard Gere’s backdoor is the central thesis of Klein’s […]
Look at that fluffy unicorn! It’s so fluffy, I could die!
Warning: DEFINITELY NSFW, and all of the spoilers. In keeping with tradition, I decided to start CBR9 off with a bang…or at least, a Tingle. As I’ve already covered 2 of author Chuck Tingle’s preferred 4 types of erotica (living objects and dinosaurs), I figured that it was time to grab this one by the horn. I swear this gets harder every year. …Dammit. What I mean is that these books are getting more and more difficult to swallow. OH FFS. Our story opens with “If you […]
“I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you’ve ever encountered.”
My initial impulse was to use the following The Princess Diarist quote as title for this review, “If you have a penis and a job, being handsome is a fantastic bonus but hardly a necessity.” My decision to purchase and read The Princess Diarist is not an original one following the death of Carrie Fisher. I am not alone in having found her to be a childhood role model as Princess Leia and again as adult Carrie Fisher. She seemed so approachable and she allowed […]
World Domination 101
This was an impulse library check out since the YA room was right there when I was returning some DVDs and I didn’t feel like running upstairs. I’m so glad that I grabbed it, it was right up my alley. Cadel is a young genius, taken to see a psychologist for troubled youth after he gets caught hacking into the power grid in his Australian city, at the ripe old age of 7 years old. But oddly enough, the first thing Dr. Roth does is […]
Bueller? Bueller?
Hello, Cannonballers! I’ve come to swell your ranks and bump up my yearly reading tally. I’m not nervous, honest… Life Moves Pretty Fast was a nostalgic and amusing start to my reading year. When you think of the best movies, the eighties don’t tend to jump immediately to mind. But Hadley Freeman begs to differ and takes us on a trip through some of her favourite eighties movies and what they taught us, as well as looking at what’s been lost in the movies of […]
There’s certainly a lot of damned things that happen
If there’s one thing that can be said about this book, it’s that it lives up to its title. The premise is fascinating: An institute of historical research called St Mary’s, associated with the (also fictional) University of Thirsk in northern England, is not the stuffy old institution it appears to be but actually conducts its historical research in the most contemporary way possible–they go back in time and observe the events firsthand. The main character, Dr Madeleine Maxwell, called Max, is recruited by St […]
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