Vanessa here.
While Cameron is busy blogging all the cultural stuff, I thought I would update you all on my reading.
Book: Affluenza
Read: Before getting to Korea
Genre: Social commentry
Summary: Argues that Australia is in the grip of Affluenza, always wanting bigger, better and more without reflection on what it has.
Thoughts and Recommendation: Thought-provoking, but somewhat "preachy" ending. Parts feel right, especially when describing the way the middle class has adopted the "aussie battler" tag without justification.
Score: 3 / 5 Gothic churches
Book: Catherine de Medici
Read: Korea / Spain
Genre: Historical Non-Fiction
Summary: The life of Catherine de Medici. Surprise Suprise.
Thoughts and Recommendation: Badly written and poorly edited. Vast tracts of text and detail scattered as if at random, destroying an interesting story.
Score: 1.5 / 5 Prague cobblestones
Book: JPod
Read: Spain
Genre: Geek Lit
Summary: It's too hard to describe - the story focuses on Ethan, a member of JPod, and a year or two in his cubical life.
Thoughts and Recommendation: Only if you consider yourself a member of geek culture. If not, steer clear. If you do, understand that this book is not very good.
Score: 1 / 5 cranky waitstaff
Book: The secret life of bees
Read: Plane to Venice
Genre: Spiritual / chic lit
Summary: Set during the 1960s in American, at the heigh of the civil rights movement, the main character is a girl whose mother died at 4 leaving her to be raised by her at time abusive father. Girl runs away after springing her black "adopted" mother / friend from jail.
Thoughts and Recommendation: It came as part of a 3 pack of books I got in Seville. Well written but signposted. I don't like this genre, and only read the book because a) it was mine now and b) it was there, and nothing else was.
Score: 1 / 5 skanky internet cafes
Currently reading: Consider Phebos?, a space opera.
Vanessa
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