This book isn’t going to be for everyone. That is super abundantly clear. A look on Amazon reviews has an equal rating between 5 and 1/2 Stars reviews. I can imagine its rather polarizing to Austen fans as well as humor fans. I however, kind of got a kick out of reading about Liz Bennett wanting to chop off Darcy’s head for insolence. If you don’t the know the story, its a fairly simple one: Seth Grahame-Smith basically writes a fanfiction version of Pride and […]
A Stalker with a Heart of Gold and a Perfect Dead Wife (This Book has It All)
I realized I had a few more Liane Moriarty books to check off my list to be a completionist– having just finished The Last Anniversary last week, I think I’m down to just one book left. And that’s sad because I can’t say that I loved this book, i’m really hoping that my last book will be better and give me a little reminder of what I loved from her other books. Because this one? I just felt majorly perplexed by it. We start […]
An Attempt to Clear the Air about Scientology
Going Clear is about the enigma that is Scientology, a religion marketed to the wealthy and famous who can afford undergoing years of auditing sessions. It’s a secretive religion that unfolds information in stages, making the stranger tenets of Scientology more palatable after acclimating one’s mind to less shocking, but priming “truths.” As a newer religion (founded by L. Ron Hubbard in the mid 1950’s), Scientology has recent history to its detriment. And it is this with which Wright begins…the story of L. Ron Hubbard, […]
What if your educational voyage does not teach you anything?
A few words in advance This is my second attempt to do the cannonball read. My first was rather short-lived because I could not find the time to write reviews anymore and I hope I will make it this time. Bear in mind that English is not my first language, which means I will make mistakes. Feel free to point them out to me in the comments. The Book Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) is set before World War I. Hans Castorp, scion […]