So the Bechdel Test – invented by Alison Bechdel – critiques the dearth of primary female characters with any degree of interiority in teh moviez, and it consists of three criteria: The show/book/film whatever 1) has two female characters who 2) have a conversation about 3) something other than a man. Fewer films/shows than you’d [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Review: The Dead Beat, Marilyn Johnson
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged I have an amazing book I can't wait to tell you guys about but you'll just have to wait for it, I've never been to a convention of any sort, if I did go to a convention of any sort it would probably not be an obituarists one and definitely not a serial killers one, Marilyn Johnson, The Dead Beat on September 24, 2011 | 34 Comments »
I am late to the Marilyn Johnson party, y’all. I am not fashionably late. I am so late the servers are washing glasses and the other guests have long since departed for the after-party at the library books bar. By which I mean, y’all have probably all already read this and gone on to read [...]
Review: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets on September 20, 2011 | 28 Comments »
Oh this book. Oh it hurt my heart. All the time I was reading it and thinking how it reminded me of an illustrated, more grown-up version of There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, which I read when I was a little kid. I still tear up slightly when I read There’s a Boy [...]
BBAW: Community!
Posted in Misc., tagged Book Blogger Appreciation Week, I appreciate you guys right in the face, Rafa Nadal is cute like a lion, the Tribute in Light is really gorgeous, what's weird about tennis is everyone claps for the good plays by the party they are not rooting for because they just appreciate good tennis. that is not my instinct. on September 14, 2011 | 32 Comments »
Okay, so. I didn’t write the Monday BBAW community post where I would say, this blogger is the best! And this blogger is also the best! And so on, and so forth! I didn’t do that because the time slot I had intended to devote to doing that on Sunday, I instead spent suddenly weirdly [...]
Things that are nice about this week
Posted in Misc., tagged Drew Brees's face reminds me of Super Bowl XLIV and as such never fails to make me happy, FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL, I have been whistling "When the Saints Go Marching In" all day today, I liked Darren Sproles even before he played super awesome in last night's game, my dearest dearest and best beloved Saints, seriously why does Orson Scott Card suck so hard about the Gays?, we made up a Zzzzt! sound effect to make every time Darren Sproles does something good, whereas Mark. Ingram. Failed. All of us., who dat say dey gon' beat dem Saints? on September 9, 2011 | 54 Comments »
1. Yesterday morning I killed the m.f. mosquito that kept me from comfortable sleep the last, like, three nights. I wanted to scream war chants of triumph. I hate that mosquito. It was insatiable. I am waiting two more weeks and then I am taking my window unit out of my window and having the [...]
Review: The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged book club books, literary fiction, literary fiction that is too too utterly literary, Megan Abbott, The End of Everything on September 2, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Have you ever had the experience of reading a book and being sure throughout most of the book that you know what’s going on, and then you get to the end and you realize that you actually have no idea if you really know what the author is talking about? That was my experience with [...]
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