So this is my adult fantasy or science fiction book for Jeane’s DogEar Challenge, and I have managed to finish it before the end of November, which I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to do, what with all the applying to grad school I’ve been doing and whatnot. Chalice!
I have figured out [...]
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Chalice, Robin McKinley
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged Chalice, DogEar Reading Challenge, fantasy, Robin McKinley on November 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged fantasy, for young people, Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede on October 20, 2009 | 30 Comments »
Y’all, I’m applying for graduate school. It is stressful as hell. I’m telling you because the more people I tell, the more shaming it would be for me not to go through with it. And yes! I am using shame as a motivator! If it can beat the crap out of me every time I [...]
84 Charing Cross Road & The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from a person, Reread, tagged 84 charing cross road, diaries, duchess of bloomsbury street, England, Helene Hanff, letters, london on August 22, 2009 | 12 Comments »
My sister has this magical ability to get people to do things for her. It is amazing. Everyone in my family does stuff for her even when we have just said, “No! Lazy! Do it yourself! My God you are so lazy!” Like, we’ll both be at my parents’ house, and I’ll be curled up [...]
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Posted in 5 Stars, Heard about from a person, Reread, tagged audrey niffenegger, fantastic protagonists, present tense, superb endings, the time traveler's wife, why you should always read the end on August 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I recently reread this book, and I was planning to wait on writing about it until I could see the movie, but the people I see movies with are either like “Are you nuts? I saw it the first instant it came out!” or else “I can’t watch it! The book is too precious to [...]
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from a person, Heard about from the internets, tagged classics, dystopia, endings, feminism (and not), incest and rape, Margaret Atwood, Phyllis Schlafly, superb endings, The Handmaid's Tale on August 14, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is feminist dystopian satire. It was sort of a box-tick read, but it was very good, and well-written, and I’m glad I read it and I never ever want to read it again. In slightly-future America, now a fascist misogynist theocracy called Gilead, Offred (but June, really) is a Handmaid. [...]
On Agate Hill, Lee Smith
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged diaries, family, historical fiction, Lee Smith, letters, On Agate Hill on August 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A book I acquired in spite of my firm and as-yet-unbroken book-buying ban. My lovely grandmother (my mum’s mum) sent it to me, all shiny and beautiful and hardback, along with an equally shiny and beautiful and hardback book about Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots not liking each other (I am excited about [...]
Buffy’s eighth series
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from a person, Heard about from the internets, tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fantasy, graphic novels, Joss Whedon on August 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So I was mysteriously untempted by the Buffy Season Eight comics for a really long time, and then Fyrefly (inventor of the book blog search, hooray!) started getting all reviewy of them, and that reminded me that I love Buffy like a fat kid loves cake (or a skinny kid – any kid really), and [...]
The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged good dialogue, not much plot, oscar wilde, Robertson Davies, Tarot cards, The Rebel Angels on July 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
You know what my favorite thing about this book was? And don’t think I’m saying this in an anti-Rebel-Angels way at all, because I’m not and I loved Parlabane even though his (spoilers, I guess?) farewell letter was silly. My favorite thing about this book is that the main character (I think I can call [...]
