There has never been a more picked-up-at-random than this book. Basically I was at Bongs & Noodles before the storm, trying to pick out a good hurricane book. And I kind of wanted to get Special Topics in Calamity Physics, but I had already read it. And I kind of wanted to get The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro, because of how haunting I remember Never Let Me Go was, but I felt doubtful about it. So I sat on a chair gazing at my options, and then I realized that what I really wanted was to read The Far Pavilions…
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I have been reading books but not posting reviews of them. This is mainly due to three factors: school having started, me having a ‘sode, and the damn damn damn hurricane. I’m going to go ahead and blame it mostly on the hurricane, though that really isn’t fair. But who cares? HURRICANES ARE VILE. Today a really loud whooshing noise woke me up which may have been a great big enormous jet plane going over my head, and I suspect that this is ALL THE FAULT OF THE HURRICANE. I say no to hurricanes. No more hurricanes. Not one bit…
1 CommentRecommended by: Melissa I know that when writing a story is going well, everything seems connected, but it felt a little weird reading The Adoration of Jenna Fox right after spending an hour hunting for titles for my own story. I was thinking of themes and words and trying to free-associate and when that failed, I went and read The Adoration of Jenna Fox with all the words still whizzing around in my brain. The three primary ones – family, protection, secrets – as well as agency, actually – were remarkably relevant. The Adoration of Jenna Fox is about a…
2 CommentsI confess. I got this one because it has the same title as the book Lucas writes on One Tree Hill. And you know what I realized when I was composing this review in my head while washing dishes? I realized that Lucas’s book title? Ravens is meant to refer to his basketball team, the Tree Hill Ravens. Which kind of makes me want to gouge out my eyes. Like, bad enough he’s written a pretentious book full of pretentious sentences and given it a pretentious title, and bad enough they’re pretending that this idiotic autobiographical book about Lucas and…
1 CommentSpoilers. Many. Nothing but spoilers. Breaking Dawn is an extravagant symphony of screwed-up sexuality and dysfunction. (Enjoyable because of the funny, loathsome because of all the people who think it’s romantic.) I had to stop about every twenty pages and update my sister, who, lucky duck, was the only one home, and we would have a long moan about how insane this book was, and how dismayed we were that people were all, Oo, she’s the next Harry Potter and – still less forgivable – Oo, she’s the next Buffy. Next Buffy. HA. When people are dysfunctional on Buffy, they…
8 CommentsAt the library the other day, I did two things that I never do. First, I walked in with a self-imposed limit to get no more than ten books. Then when I was looking for the books I wanted, I grabbed random books off the shelves because they looked interesting. This is so not me. I am not that girl. Indie Sister is that girl, but I am not that girl. I get books I’ve heard of, or at least books I’ve seen around several times before and I can’t take the curiosity anymore. Well, this isn’t like that. I…
3 CommentsI’m getting so much anger from Twilight fans I thought I’d go ahead and actually say why I think these books are bad. It’s not because they contain vampires (you’re talking to a girl who owns all seven seasons of Buffy and all but the last one of Angel), and it’s not because the characters contemplate having sex (I’m all for sex – plus, see above with the Buffy and the Angel, cause Buffy at least has people having sex all over the place, and not infrequently sex with vampires), and it’s certainly not anything to do with any belief…
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