Book Reviews: How we review the books we find....
Our criteria:
Simple. If the book moves us, we reate it.
You can always tell what we think at a glance. Just check out the icons below and burn them to your memory.
Beach read, No stress, Relaxed Plot are all easy reads.
Tear Bucket, Head Case and Contemporary are perhaps more challenging.
Simple. If the book moves us, we reate it.
You can always tell what we think at a glance. Just check out the icons below and burn them to your memory.
Beach read, No stress, Relaxed Plot are all easy reads.
Tear Bucket, Head Case and Contemporary are perhaps more challenging.
Beach Read
Not much exercize for the old brain cells here. Just relax and keep the Pimms and lemondade coming. You won't need to remember a thing anyway.
Tear Bucket
Similar to Head Case, books like these just make you want to curl up in the duvet and sob your eyes out. Poignant, moving, gripping. Tough to keep reading, tough to put down.
Recommended Books to buy
We will be reading these in our bookgroups!
Always Running....mi vida loca
Luiz J. Rodriguez more about the Book
Makes Me Wanna Holler
Nathan McCall more about the Book
Just as I am
E. Lynn Harris more about the Book
Wild Swans
Jung Chang more about the Book
B-boy Blues
James Earl Hardy more about the Book
Always Running....mi vida loca
Luiz J. Rodriguez more about the Book
Makes Me Wanna Holler
Nathan McCall more about the Book
Just as I am
E. Lynn Harris more about the Book
Wild Swans
Jung Chang more about the Book
B-boy Blues
James Earl Hardy more about the Book
Relaxed Plot
Don't go looking for intricate details or mental exercize. The author just means to hang her or his head over the washing line for a chin-wag. Enjoy it.
Contemporary
We like this word. Some uptights use the word contemporary when they see words like "lesbian" or "fuck". When we say contemporary we don't mean basic, or boring.
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Choose from our recommended list, them join in our live book group chat!
You can buy books reviewed right now and read them tomorrow with Culture Cafe, NonStatQuo and Amazon.co.uk. It's so easy, In 24 hours you can enjoy these highly recommended books. Or buy them and participate in our on line book group held monthly.Order books Now!
No Stress
Comfy reading. Like a fuzzy blanket or a bar of chocolate. This book is for your soul.
Head Case
The kind of book that makes you think. Hurts your head, grips your gut. Makes you explode. Depresses you. Enlightens you. A book that haunts your thoughts day and night. Brings new meaning to your life. Makes you understand someone elses life with incredible clarity. There aren't many of these books going. Some people call these classics. So do we, but we don't mean Moby Dick.
Book Groups
STARTING SUMMER 2011
Men's Book Group
Women's Book Group
Gay Men Book Group
Lesbian Book Group
G&L Book Group
Rainbow Coalition (everybody reading any and everything)
Men's Book Group
Women's Book Group
Gay Men Book Group
Lesbian Book Group
G&L Book Group
Rainbow Coalition (everybody reading any and everything)
The Culture Cafe Book group will meet monthly. Members suggest books and we vote on the suggestions on the web site. Once the book is chosen, members have a month to read the book. Everyone in the group is notified by e-mail when the votes are cast.
If you don't have a copy of the book chosen for that month, you can order a copy from our cafe site and proceeds go directly back into managing the bookgroup. Join Our Book Group
If you don't have a copy of the book chosen for that month, you can order a copy from our cafe site and proceeds go directly back into managing the bookgroup. Join Our Book Group