Recommended by: A Life in Books So basically I finished this book late last night and I was dead tired; but I still managed to have many thoughts about it after I had dropped it onto my flip chair and turned off the light, and they all sort of centered around the thought that this man could use some serious cognitive behavioral therapy. He might really enjoy cognitive behavioral therapy, I was thinking, because of its structured, project-like nature, and furthermore it would make him less crazy (and I use that word in its nicest sense). I was composing a…
Leave a CommentAuthor: Jenny Hamilton
Well, I have just finished up Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer’s third trashy vampire book. In case you were wondering whether all the trashy continues unabated, the answer is a resounded and unqualified YES. Basically, in this book, Bella and Edward have lots of anxieties for several reasons, including 1) she misses Jacob and wants to play with him; and 2) he (Edward, not Jacob) wants to get married and she doesn’t; and 3) she wants to have sex and he (still Edward, not Jacob) doesn’t; and 4) a vampire they pissed off a while ago is making a massive army of…
71 Comments“What I want to do,” said Juniper, “is an experiment in mental telepathy.” She hesitated, waiting for his reaction. There wasn’t one. “I know I have some telepathic abilities,” she went on more confidently. “I can go through a pack of cards, face down, and guess about fifteen correctly. And I often know who it is when the phone rings before I answer it. But I want to try mental telepathy with someone else. I want to try giving someone else my thoughts. Images are easier to receive than words. They’re more intuitive somehow, not so tied up in logic…
5 CommentsRecommended by: Book Nut I love Annie Sullivan. Every time I think about Annie Sullivan it blows my mind. She was twenty when she went to go teach Helen Keller, and she’d had no proper parenting, and she was twenty, and she must have been just about the most brilliant and inventive person of all time. Annie Sullivan. WOW. There was a woman who knew how to parent. Anyway, I was excited to read this book about her. I like young adult books, even though I have now become a real adult and can no longer feel smug, as I…
Leave a CommentRecommended by: God knows. Some website. I remember seeing it but I didn’t take note of where and now I can’t remember. I’m cute but dumb. I actually bought this book mainly out of terror and dismay, as it sounded a lot like a story I’m in the process of drafting, and when I read about it I freaked out immediately and started having depressing dreams in which Sara Zarr (who looked a lot like Scheherazade from the TV movie of Arabian Nights, damn her) came and fussed at me for writing a lamer version of the exact same story…
Leave a CommentSo there was a book fair today, right, and do you know what I bought for one dollar, one dollar? A shiny clean hardback of Crocodile on the Sandbank. For a dollar. A hundred pennies. Wow. I also got hardbacks of To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of King Midas, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan, Thursday’s Child, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Twilight, and The Little Lame Prince. All of these things, plus some assorted paperbacks, for a grand total of $20.10. I am one happy camper. Edit on Friday to add:…
1 Comment