Well. This is not what I expected. Amanda reviewed this series, of which Blue Is for Nightmares and White Is for Magic are the first two, earlier this year, and they are boarding school books and the series is a bunch of books that are matching and color-coded. Y’all know I had to get some [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Review: Blue Is for Nightmares and White Is for Magic, Laurie faria Stolarz
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Blue Is for Nightmares, boarding schools, I hate it when a boarding school book fails me, Laurie faria Stolarz, White Is for Magic, White Is for Magic. Not Witching. I wrote Witching all through this post but that's not what I meant. on December 23, 2010 | 30 Comments »
Review: Sisterhood Interrupted, Deborah Siegel
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Deborah Siegel, Empire Records is pretty much the best film ever, feminism (and not), I feel so virtuous when I write posts on the weekends and schedule them for the week, I'm checking out a cheese fries place for y'all today so I can be prepared when you visit me at BEA :), my daddy knows all about research and practice evaluation, Sisterhood Interrupted, speaking of shoddy science did y'all see the scientific community doesn't like the science behind the arsenic critters? on December 21, 2010 | 22 Comments »
What is it about infighting that I find so enthralling? Siegel suggests that American culture has a fetish for girls (women) fighting, and that’s certainly true, but in my case I am just very interested in the distinctions people draw between the groups they belong to, and the nominally similar groups they insist they couldn’t [...]
Book Bloggers and Music (an idea seeking feedback)
Posted in Misc., tagged I KNOW that mix CDs have traditionally been the realm of slightly geeky teenage boys but TOO BAD I am reclaiming them, is my idea stupid? I AM SO INSECURE NOW, proposing this makes me feel like Michael Cera in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist on December 19, 2010 | 36 Comments »
SO. BOOK BLOGOSPHERE. I had this idea and I am curious to see what you think. I frequently discover that I have music tastes in common with people on my blogroll. I am always on the hunt for new music. I love, love, love making and receiving mix CDs. Would anyone have any interest in [...]
Review: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged analogies that don't stand up to close scrutiny, boarding schools, E. Lockhart, feminism (and not), I fancy the crap out of boarding school books right now, Indie Sister corrects me all the time, luckily my library had Blue Is for Nightmares so I can carry on with the boarding school love, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks on December 17, 2010 | 43 Comments »
Have y’all ever seen the film Serendipity? I mean it’s not that great. I’m fond of Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack, and I still recognize that this film just isn’t that great. The premise is, they meet once, they have a great date, but Kate Beckinsale wants to leave it to chance whether they meet [...]
Review: The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged bastard Lost Booker Prize voters, historical fiction, I was at the library the other day and I could have gotten Farrell's other books but instead I got some YA fiction SO THERE, Indian Mutiny of 1857, it's probably because everyone was mad that Fire from Heaven was #teamboyskissing, J.G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur, well played J.G. Farrell for not making the sepoys seem like ravening hordes on December 13, 2010 | 26 Comments »
I recently ranked the colonizing countries of the West in order of how much I like to read about their colonizing ways, and Britain came in first place. And if I had ranked British-colonized countries in order of how much I like to read about their colonized ways — well, I’d never have done that, [...]
Review: The Possessed, Elif Batuman
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged and now I am off to the city to check out some statues and the Rockefeller Center, Elif Batuman, I learned many things about this writer called Isaac Babel without even slightly wanting to read his work, I still haven't read anything by FR Leavis, pictures of NYC at Christmas may possibly follow, sort of a memoir I guess?, The Possessed on December 11, 2010 | 35 Comments »
If you are extremely attentive in a way that I am not, you may have noticed that I haven’t yet done a post on the second half of Doctor Zhivago. I finished the first half a few days ahead of schedule, and as a reward I let myself read some fun fiction, and one thing [...]
New York giveth, and New York taketh away
Posted in Misc., tagged five-year-old gloves and they were all shiny and beautiful still, going to see the statues this weekend and YES I am rather excited about it, I need to use the subway as much as possible to make my 30-day pass worth it, my mother says don't ever get attached to gloves because you will always soon them but I was very attached to these gloves, New York is so good they named it twice on December 9, 2010 | 55 Comments »
I lost my gloves on the subway the day before yesterday. They were beautiful gloves that I got for Christmas in 2005. I had told my then-boyfriend that what I wanted for Christmas more than anything in the world was beautiful black leather gloves exactly like my friend Nezabeth’s, and he got me those exact [...]
Review: The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged family tragedy, I love this new WordPress thing where it lets you pick recent posts to link to, I wonder wonder why the wonder fa-a-a-lls, Kate Morton, parallel story lines, subjects need predicates to be happy. THEY JUST DO., The Forgotten Garden, The Secret Garden on the other hand is nonstop hella awesome and I love it forever <3<3<3, why would you not just adhere to the rules of written English?, Wonderfalls on December 3, 2010 | 52 Comments »
Have y’all ever seen Wonderfalls? If you haven’t, you really should. It’s basically Dead Like Me with a better premise, a better ensemble cast (absolutely no disrespect meant to Mandy Patinkin, whom I adore — it’s the dynamics between the characters that are better, really), and a stronger sense of what kind of a show [...]
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