I am being awesome at the Graphic Novels Challenge but completely falling down on the other ones. Women Unbound, nothing since The Group though in fact I suppose I could have used The Opposite House. Or, hey, Committed! Actually, Committed totally is one. I’m going back and editing that post and using Committed for the [...]
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Review: The Vintner’s Luck, Elizabeth Knox
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Elizabeth Knox, Horns and Halos Reading Challenge 2010, love affairs with supernatural beings that do not lead to disaster, people falling in love with supernatural beings despite being adequately warned not to, read this entirely while cleaning teeth and waiting for my hot water to kick in, The Vintner's Luck on February 28, 2010 | 29 Comments »
Review: Swallow Me Whole, Nate Powell
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged graphic novels, Graphic Novels Challenge 2010, I really might do a mental illness reading challenge sometime if there isn't one already, mental illness, Nate Powell, Swallow Me Whole on February 27, 2010 | 29 Comments »
Y’all, at some point, I’m going to do a mental illness reading challenge. Is there already one? I’m going to do one if there isn’t already one. I love mental illness (I mean I do not love it. It is awful and ruins people’s lives. I just find it very interesting). As soon as I [...]
Review: The Opposite House, Helen Oyeyemi
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Helen Oyeyemi, hierarchies of book placement, how can someone so young sing words so sad, some of the same writing qualities I adore in Markus Zusak and Salman Rushdie, The Opposite House on February 22, 2010 | 20 Comments »
When I do not expect to enjoy a book all that much, but I need to get it read so I can return it to the library, I leave it in my loo and read it in tiny increments when I am cleaning my teeth and contact lenses, or waiting for the hot water to [...]
Questions for you
Posted in Misc. on February 21, 2010 | 43 Comments »
So here are two things that have been weighing on my mind. I read about the Bechdel Rule recently. Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, says that for a movie to be worth her time, it has to meet three conditions. 1) There have to be two female characters that are 2) having a conversation [...]
Dull dreams
Posted in Misc., tagged A Time to Keep Silence, monasteries and chocolate factories are quite different, Patrick Leigh Fermor, sometimes real life is better than dreams (but sometimes not) on February 17, 2010 | 27 Comments »
I dreamed last week that I had checked out A Time to Keep Silence from the library, on Litlove’s recommendation, and was very let down by it. Instead of writing about visiting monasteries, it was all about visiting chocolate factories! In my dream, I got fed up with Fermor’s constant cutesy references to Willy Wonka, [...]
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Update on Fellowship
Posted in Misc., tagged Fellowship of the Ring, I'm obsessed with finding words made up of all standard-sized letters, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings Readalong, Stephen Colbert interviewing Neil Gaiman = WIN, Tom Bombadil is everything that's awful about being awful, watching Will Arnett make growly comments while wearing a ridiculously short robe is so distractingly hilarious that this relatively short post took me forty-five minutes to write on February 15, 2010 | 24 Comments »
It is now the middle of the month – tell us all how Tolkien is treating you over at The Literary Omnivore: (omnivore = all standards) If you’ve been with us since the beginning, how do you feel about the narrator compared to the narrator in The Hobbit? BETTER. I didn’t hate the narrating style [...]
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