Everyone welcome back BadKittyUno! For CBR Bingo’s Two Heads are Better than One square I dragged my darling sister out of retirement to help me write my review of The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (which, for all his clever album titles, is the most pedestrian title for an autobiography possible). We have no idea how to write a review together so please enjoy this semi-coherent arrangements of thoughts we had while reading. CD: Gucci Mane looks exactly how someone named Gucci Mane should look. BKU: That’s exactly […]
Playing end of the year catch up
Okay, I’m 25 reviews behind guys. I’m going to finish them here, and then be done with CBR I think. I absolutely love this community, and will probably keep logging on to read y’all’s awesome reviews, but trying to keep up with my own has felt increasingly like an obligation, not like a fun expansion of my love of reading. But I’ve read some great books this month, so here’s one last blast of recommendations… The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson (3 stars) […]
We take so much for granted
Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca, and through a combination of her family’s teachings and her time at school, spent most of her childhood and teen years as a religious fanatic. Then, in her 20s, she became a computer security engineer, working with a variety of people, and realized just how wrong the situation in her country really was. She began to rebel against the government by doing something that most of us bitch and moan about doing every day: daring to drive. Manal tells […]
Just so freaking adorable
Y’all, if you’re looking for some fun, cute YA, I’ve got it for you right here. I grabbed When Dimple Met Rishi (along with most of the books I’ve read in the last month) off Goodreads Reader Choice Awards, and it did not disappoint! Dimple, an aspiring web designer, has one thing on her mind: attending a good college, away from her mother — who’s hell-bent on finding Dimple an “Ideal Indian Husband”. Rishi, on the other hand, dreams of finding a wife that will be as […]