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 [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Busy freaking out
Posted in Misc., tagged hurricanes, Louisiana on August 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary Pearson
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged for young people, Mary Pearson, science fiction, The Adoration of Jenna Fox on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recommended 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 [...]
An Unkindness of Ravens, Ruth Rendell
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about in a book, tagged An Unkindness of Ravens, feminism (and not), incest and rape, One Tree Hill, Ruth Rendell, titles on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I 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 [...]
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
Posted in 1 Star, Heard about in a book, tagged Breaking Dawn, creepy, edward is emotionally abusive, stephenie meyer, trashy, vampires on August 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Spoilers. 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 [...]
Why She Left Us, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Posted in 2 Stars, Picked up randomly on August 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
At 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. [...]
Why I Don’t Like Those Vampire Books by Stephenie Meyer
Posted in Misc., tagged edward is emotionally abusive, stephenie meyer, trashy, vampires on August 2, 2008 | 22 Comments »
I’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 [...]
The Secret of Lost Things, Sheridan Hay
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from the internets on August 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been wanting to read this for a while, ever since it was in the New Books section at Bongs & Noodles and I almost but didn’t quite buy it. It’s all about an Australian girl whose mother dies, and she comes to work in a bookshop in New York that is a very good [...]
