Well, it’s been a nice regular week! I knocked out some library books. I killed some caterpillars (my kill count stands at 29 as of this writing). I hung out with some friends. Sampled mac and cheeses from two different restaurants. Just in general living my best life. A history of Gay Batman that is everything Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners have come to expect from Glen Weldon. Also, he adorably puts an apostrophe in front of shippers, bless his heart. Speaking of gay stuff and fandoms (but I repeat myself), Clare of The Literary Omnivore wrote a brilliant and…
9 CommentsReading the End Posts
The new issue of Shiny New Books is up! Swing by and check out Memory’s and my regular column of new YA books to check out this season. Then stay and see what else is new in the book world — as ever, Shiny New Books is a fun read from (online) cover to (nonphysical) cover!
1 CommentIt’s Wednesday, and our new theme song has finally dropped! Well may you ooh and aah, for it is the greatest theme song in all the land, and its creator, Jessie, agreed to stop by the podcast and describe her Process for us (in the manner of a podcast we all love called Song Exploder). You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 58 For the impatient among you who want to hear THE WHOLE SONG before you hear Jessie talking about it, we…
3 CommentsWhen I choose books from my TBR list to pick up at the physical library, I make my selections based exclusively on the descriptions I’ve left for myself in my spreadsheet. When I choose books from my library’s ebook wish lists, covers influence me much more. I loved the note that I left for myself in my TBR list about An Inheritance of Ashes, but I read it on my recent California trip because of the cover. Nice eh? An Inheritance of Ashes is up my alley in so many ways, and it delivered on every front. It’s about two…
17 CommentsSince the theme of today is Not Being a Dick, this is your annual reminder that there are very few April Fool’s Day jokes that are actually funny (though Social Sister is in the midst of perpetrating one now), so you should probably just not do them at all. How to not be a dick to women who write comics criticism. (Good news: It ain’t even that hard.) Yes, Lovecraft was a product of his times. That doesn’t mean we have to be okay with his racism. A thoughtful response to the recent “I don’t want to be Black Spiderman”…
16 CommentsIt has taken me some time to put my finger on the problem I had with The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, but let me say before I start on that, I liked The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. It’s hard not to like a book that wears its heart on its sleeve the way this one does, dripping earnestness and longing to do the right thing from every page. Ashby Santoso is the captain of the Wayfarer, which bores holes in space to permit rapid travel between far-distant planets. In this world, humans are a…
40 CommentsThis week, the Reading the End Bookcast has a very special announcement! But you’ll have to wait until the end of the episode to hear what it is. Meanwhile, we’re talking about dystopian fiction and finishing up the Forcening1 with Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Never Letting Go (sorry, Whiskey Jenny). You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 57 What We’re Reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers (also, I watched Ex Machina and it was creepy) Does Jesus…
1 Comment