R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Nov 30, 2009, 11:35 pm
Every so often, a piece of software is created that genuinely makes the lives of its users easier. It ain’t for nothing that TVtropes.com has defined something they call the archive binge (no on...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Nov 20, 2009, 10:45 pm
By Sarah Ellerton Read: 2009 Rating: Lovely http://requiem.seraph-inn.com/ Considering the OMGHUGE plot turn that happened this October, I figured I should get around to reviewing this. Sarah Ell...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Nov 20, 2009, 12:55 am
By Kate Forsyth Read: ~2002, November 2009 Rating: Gripping Hoo-! I was up MUCH later than intended last night, polishing off the last of book 6, which I read right on the heels of #5. Good reading...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Nov 20, 2009, 12:18 am
By Johanna Lindsey Read: October/November 2009 Rating: Fun! Do not be fooled by that innocuous cover in the Amazon preview. DO NOT, I SAY. That is a redesign, to appeal to modern readers. Why? Beca...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Nov 16, 2009, 12:18 am
by Helen Fielding Read: 2003-ish, October 2009 Rating: Even better. I’ve fallen behind in my reviews, so this will have to be a bit quick. Edge of Reason is even better than the original Bri...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Nov 15, 2009, 10:06 pm
By Helen Fielding Read: October 2009, repeatedly since ~2002 Rating: v.v.v.v.g. Bridget Jones is a classic of our time. She can’t be anything but. Plenty of people have gone on and on about h...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Nov 9, 2009, 9:45 pm
By Sarah Dunant Read: October 2009 Rating: Excellent The Birth of Venus begins in the most intriguing way… It is the tail end of the Renaissance, in Florence, Italy. An elderly nun in a conve...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Nov 2, 2009, 8:44 pm
... so long as they do no harm to anyone with it. Unfortunately, it all rather smacks of ‘the good guys are enlightened and perfect cuz they’re GOOD.’  There are plenty of times...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Nov 1, 2009, 2:34 pm
Reviewed for the Feminist Review By Alaya Dawn Johnson Bolden Racing the Dark is unique among fantasy books. The world draws upon Pacific Island and East Asian cultures to create a rich blend very ...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Oct 26, 2009, 4:53 pm
I just powered my way through a ton of books over the past month+… a lot of them in the last week or so, as a nasty cold has got me down. I am a very bad person, as I did not jump on reviewing t...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Oct 26, 2009, 12:44 pm
By Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, Frédéric Lemercier Read: October 2009 Rating: Wow There’s no other word for it than, “Wow.” Every few pages, there it is again–Wow...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Oct 25, 2009, 6:59 pm
By Commander Pants Read: October 2009 Rating: Fun What could be more appropriate than to talk about god and mental illness? Even better, how about people who aren’t as ill as they seem? Comm...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Oct 14, 2009, 4:39 pm
By Will Hartzell-Baird Read: September 2009 Rating: Clever Do you see that adorable little pyramid thing dusting the title on the book cover? You see that? That’s the most adorable killer rob...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Sep 14, 2009, 3:16 pm
By Hergé Read: September 2009 Rating: This was the very first Tintin book I ever got my hands on. So there’s nostalgic attachment to it. Published in 1936, the squabbling countries make spe...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Sep 13, 2009, 2:15 pm
By Hergé Read: September 2009 Rating: Transitional One can definitely feel the transitional quality of this volume. It FEELS like a Tintin book, but the story is quite choppy, and for good reason&...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Sep 1, 2009, 4:24 pm
By Hergé Read: September 2009 Rating: Trippy I now know why this volume confused the hell out of me as a kid. Firstly, it’s the first in the series, as published widely, but it’s tech...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Sep 1, 2009, 12:55 am
A note, in case anyone should care. I believe that comics are a wholly valid artform, and can be amazing pieces of literature. I also acknowledge that one page of a graphic novel isn’t necessar...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Sep 1, 2009, 12:39 am
aka The Julie/Julia Project aka 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen aka My Year of Cooking Dangerously aka a movie with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams By Julie Powell Read: August 2009 R...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Aug 31, 2009, 11:48 pm
By Allan Appel Read: August 2009 Rating: Disappointing The back copy for The Hebrew Tutor paints a picture that is enticing: Under threat of nuclear war and the gorgeous California sun, the two fo...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Aug 27, 2009, 4:40 pm
By Margaret Atwood Read: August 2009 Rating: Nonnegotiable The whole time I was reading this I wondered why none of my writing classes assigned us to read it. Margaret Atwood is one of the Big One...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Aug 26, 2009, 10:16 am
When I was very young, our town had an Encore books. It was a special kind of bliss, because it was like the library, but all the books were new. It’s from this book store that I got my set of t...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Aug 25, 2009, 2:33 am
Shen The RB Git: I have to finish reading Negotiating With the Dead, then Julie & Julia. And hopefully that will take me to the end of August and Nonfiction Month will be over. Sreya (of the Pocket)...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Aug 17, 2009, 7:54 pm
By Natalie Angier Read: August 2009 Rating: Nifty W:IG is an interesting blend of science, statistics, theories, and anecdotes. Angier is a journalist and a feminist, who has clearly put in a lot o...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Aug 17, 2009, 6:10 pm
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath Read: July 2009 Rating: Sticky! Written by brothers who found they had been approaching the same question in different ways, Made To Stick is a guide to what makes ideas...
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R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Aug 16, 2009, 1:34 am
The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped By Andrea Moore-Emmett Read: August 2009 Rating: Hard-hitting...
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