The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler My rating: 2 of 5 stars Quite honestly, despite looking forward to reading a book I’d heard so much about and thought of as a brilliant idea, I found Ensler’s ‘Vagina Monologues’ awful in the extreme. The principle idea was a superb one – giving voice to women who… Read More Book Review: The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I often find myself championing strange, even unpopular, causes. Prostitution, for instance, is something I’d like to see un-demonized. Not because of some perverse predilection of mine (I’ve simply never found the idea of ‘stranger sex’ appealing) but because of following the blogs… Read More Book Review: The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy My rating: 2 of 5 stars This classic novel should subtitled, in my opinion, as “A Tale of Three Bad Men”. It’s not entirely fair to consider a book written nearly 130 years ago from a modernist point of view (or post-modernist if you will). But sometimes a… Read More Book Review: Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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