http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/05/jump/ book reviews and blurbs Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:24:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/05/jump/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Birds of Piss | Coffee-cat.NET Thu, 11 May 2006 13:45:48 +0000 http://books.coffee-cat.net/2006/05/jump/#comment-14 [...] New reviews at books @ cc. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb. Challenges the common assumptions of the Victorian age as a tabloid image of homophobic hell populated by mean-spirited, fearful and envious ignoramuses from which gay people eventually liberated themselves. Jump: and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer. No-cadence stories of (moral and psychological tensions of) life in a racially-divided country written with seemingly no committed specific political ideologies. As expected of Gordimer. We Did Nothing: Why the Truth Doesn’t Always Come Out When the UN Goes In by Linda Polman. Common horrifying-slash-absurd images of “humanitarian” movements gone wrong (as always). If anyone wants the book, I’ll ship it to you gladly. The Balkans by Mark Mazower. A short but broad-ranging history book, challenging the common one-dimensional stereotype of “the Balkans”. [...] [...] New reviews at books @ cc. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb. Challenges the common assumptions of the Victorian age as a tabloid image of homophobic hell populated by mean-spirited, fearful and envious ignoramuses from which gay people eventually liberated themselves. Jump: and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer. No-cadence stories of (moral and psychological tensions of) life in a racially-divided country written with seemingly no committed specific political ideologies. As expected of Gordimer. We Did Nothing: Why the Truth Doesn’t Always Come Out When the UN Goes In by Linda Polman. Common horrifying-slash-absurd images of “humanitarian” movements gone wrong (as always). If anyone wants the book, I’ll ship it to you gladly. The Balkans by Mark Mazower. A short but broad-ranging history book, challenging the common one-dimensional stereotype of “the Balkans”. [...]

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