NB: I am not really back. If I were back I would be reading your posts and posting comments that are witty and insightful as my comments always are (RIGHT?), and I really miss reading y’all’s posts because I love y’all. However, I am still doing The Transition, and also while The Transition is going [...]
Archive for October, 2010
The Fencer Trilogy, K. J. Parker
Posted in 3 Stars, tagged Colours of the Steel, Fencer Trilogy, I miss yooooouuuu, K. J. Parker, The Belly of the Bow, the most gruesomest thing ever, The Proof House, Y'all. The Strand. Whoa. on October 16, 2010 | 35 Comments »
Happy is what happens when all your dreams come true (isn’t it?)
Posted in Misc., tagged exactly exactly exactly what I wanted but didn't truly in my heart believe I would get, humankind cannot bear very much reality, I am in publishing now but I promise I will not sneakily promote my employer's books on this blog because that would be sneaky, I am keeping this blog separate from work so that is why I haven't said where I am working and also because I do not want creepers to be able to track me down, instead of doing real preparations for moving I've been doing things like checking the New York Public Library for all my favorite books, now when there are book bloggy events in New York I can come and meet y'all at them! on October 12, 2010 | 136 Comments »
I got a job! A really cool job that is exactly what I wanted! A job whose interview passed in such a way that upon getting the job, I had to sit down and think about all the life decisions I’ve made (learn Latin, go to college in Louisiana so as not to have debt, [...]
Learning about the Black Panthers
Posted in 1 Star, 4 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged anonymous notes: what a seventh-grade scheme for bringing down a group you don't agree with. SHABBY., Black Panther Party, btw Huey Newton was originally out of Monroe which is in North Louisiana, Curtis J. Austin, I like knowing bad things about J. Edgar Hoover, nonfiction, of course when you are me all roads lead to Oscar Wilde, Paul Alkebulan, strange mental connections, stuff I decided to research because of a book y'all told me to read, Survival Pending Revolution, University of Alabama Press, University of Arkansas Press, Up Against the Wall, yesterday was a good football day for my heart on October 10, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Initially I had it in my head that both of the books my library had on the subject of the Black Panther Party (that I wanted – they had some older books, but I wanted shiny new ones with slightly more time perspective and declassified FBI documents, I hoped) were published by the University of [...]
Review: Alfred Douglas, Caspar Wintermans
Posted in 2 Stars, tagged Alfred Douglas: A Poet's Life and His Finest Work, biography, Caspar Wintermans, Danny Cannoot is my new favorite person for writing that poem, I am not the biggest fan of the modern sonnet, I cannot imagine how anybody would be jealous of Bosie because really look at his family life, poetry if you can call it that on October 8, 2010 | 17 Comments »
WARNING: If you are not interested in Oscar Wilde and his life and friends and everything, and you do not want to read this post, I totally understand. But do yourself a favor if that is the case, skip to the end of it and read the poem in block quotes. It’s magnificent and I [...]
Room, Emma Donoghue (a guest review by Mumsy)
Posted in 5 Stars, tagged Emma Donoghue, good thing she reviewed this book cause I am still too chicken to read it, guest review by my lovely Mumsy!, I'm glad Mumsy agreed to do this guest review because (she's awesome and) I have no new reviews to post right now, my shoes never fought and made friends again, Room on October 6, 2010 | 14 Comments »
If you’ve reviewed Room lately, I’ve probably commented on your blog to say, You have reviewed this book well, but it sounds way too upsetting and I am never, ever, ever, ever going to read it myself. That is still (probably) true, so my mother has kindly agreed to guest-review it for me. Here is [...]
Closing the book on spoiler-free September
Posted in Misc., tagged from here on in it's all spoilers all the time the way God intended, I know who killed the kid in The Little Friend, puzzle analogy, Spoiler-Free September, this shout-out to Matt Smith in no way lessens my love for David Tennant, why you should always read the end on October 3, 2010 | 71 Comments »
My verdict: Never again. There is this one episode of Doctor Who where the Doctor is standing around waiting for a monster to show up, and he says “Is this how time normally passes? Reeeeally slowly, in the right order?” and if you substitute “books” for “time” (and “pass” for “passes”, to retain proper grammar), [...]
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