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Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Jane Eyre

February 15, 2014 by narfna 6 Comments

On this my third reading of this book, I thought I'd try something a little bit different for the review. It was either this or wax poetic like the ex-graduate student that I am, and nobody here wants to read that. (Not to mention, they don't let you curse in graduate level writing, which is one of … [Read more]

narfna's CBR6 Review No:9 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: charlotte bront, classics, feminism, gothic, jane eyre, josephine bailey, kate beaton, letters to fictional characters, Literature, narfna, Victorian ·

King of the severed hands

February 15, 2014 by lyndamk 3 Comments

This work describes King Leopold II’s land grab of the Congo River area during the scramble for Africa of the late 19th century, which led to the deaths of 8 to 10 million Africans, the destruction of their societies, and the devastation of the area’s wild rubber plants. Each chapter takes on a … [Read more]

lyndamk's CBR6 Review No:4 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Africa, lyndamk ·

A Well Spun Yarn

February 15, 2014 by genericwhitegirl 2 Comments

Wool is one of those futuristic, dystopian, post-apocolytpic, insert your own buzzword here, type books that I'm sure is packaged as a three-book series...(checking internets)...yep, it's called the Silo Series and also includes the novels Shift and Dust. Despite my sarcasm, this was a book I … [Read more]

genericwhitegirl's CBR6 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: genericwhitegirl, Hugh Howey, The Blist, Wool ·

Attention All Cannonballers!

February 15, 2014 by MsWas Leave a Comment

We were down due to some issues with our hosting company's technical support crew. So some posts have been deleted, and some are missing text. Please go and check your posts. If something is missing, let me know and I will try to retrieve it. I can restore most of what was missing, except if it was … [Read more]

MsWas's CBR6 Review No:0 · Genres: News from MsWas · Tags: ·

Are You Kidding Me, Another One?

February 14, 2014 by Marc 3 Comments

There's a chance that if you're reading this review, you might not be an active participant in Cannonball Read 6. Maybe you didn't sign up, unsure of whether or not you could participate to your satisfaction, or you missed the deadline, or you just wanted to cheerlead from the sidelines, or any … [Read more]

Marc's CBR6 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half ·

Countdown City

February 14, 2014 by Vylotte Leave a Comment

If you knew the world was going to end, that you and everyone else had only 74 days left to live, what would you do? Would you hunker down, hoard what you could and hope for the best? Abandon everything you knew and run for the nearest beach? Or perhaps set up residence at a library and read as fast … [Read more]

Vylotte's CBR6 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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