Check out what the participants of CBR10 have been reading in the first quarter of 2018. Which were the most popular books and authors? Who has read the most books so far? Ingres77 crunches the numbers and tallies up the totals in this stats recap.
Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left….
So, much of my reading for CBR has come via audiobooks. Sadly, my work schedule has changed recently, thus depriving me of much of the time I have to listen to books, so I expect there’s no way I’m going to achieve my goal this year. But I’m still here, though, so I guess all is still well. I’m going to get this out of the way up front: I’m not a conspiracy theorist. 9/11 was the result of fundamentalist Islamic terrorists hijacking airliners. Chemtrails […]
So…I just read Rambo. For reals. Rambo.
Honestly, this book is nothing like I expected. And what I expected can best be summarized with a photo: There’s pretty much nothing about this that appeals to me. But this isn’t what Rambo is. At least, that’s not the Rambo that David Morrell created. That Rambo isn’t about an underdog beaten down by society, taking a stand against political indifference and small town stupidity. Morrell’s Rambo is about the political divide that nearly tore the country apart in the late-60s and early-70s, and the […]
Thoughtful, well-written, and well researched, but may be unfulfilling for many
Believe it or not, I haven’t disappeared. This is actually my fifteenth book this year, but the ten unreviewed books are part of a series that I’ll probably be reading for the rest of the year. But I needed a break, so I jumped on this. I picked up I’ll Be Gone in the Dark having no knowledge of who the writer was, or the specifics around the case. In fact, it wasn’t until about halfway through the book that I even realized this was […]