All the Best Books of 1983
Posted in books, history, nonfiction, science, snow on Aug 23rd, 2010
David Laskin, The Children’s Blizzard
So those of you who grew up on Laura Ingalls Wilder may or may not remember the totally awesome book The Long Winter, in which Laura and her family nearly freeze and starve to death because winter comes EARLY and HARD to South Dakota.
There’s obviously a sex joke in there, but [...]
Posted in books, nonfiction on Aug 19th, 2010
You totally forget when your period is supposed to start, so although you do have pads (PRAISE BE TO JESUS), you…don’t have any painkillers.
Yelp!
Yeah, my guts hurt. What of it, internet? Like it’s never happened to you. And in addition to my guts hurting, I have an 18 pound cat with separation anxiety who keeps [...]
Posted in books, fiction, mysteries, personal, travel, tribulations on Aug 18th, 2010
So here’s the thing: I didn’t drive any of the 2,000,000+ miles to Tucson, because I am not a very good driver, the family car is kind of a boat, the rearview mirror was blocked, we were carrying so much stuff that at certain points the tailpipe scraped the asphalt, and George is just too [...]
Posted in YA, books, fantasy, fiction, romance on Aug 9th, 2010
Achem. A review of the Need books.
Okay, so Need, the first in the Need series (duh), is a really solid YA fantasy about…fairies. Ugh. Needless to say, I fucking hate fairies and I thought some elements of the book were ridiculous (weres and fairies are mortal enemies? WHATEVER), but mostly the book is about the [...]
Posted in books on Jul 30th, 2010
The other night, George looked at me and said, “Honey, I want to take you someplace special.” And for once, he wasn’t talking about inside his pants.
See? I can make jokes like that, because now I’m married and my vulgarity is sanctioned by the state of Nevada. DEAL WITH IT, MOM.
Anyway, I don’t trust George [...]
Posted in books, fantasy, fiction, gender, movies, personal, sci-fi, tribulations on Jul 23rd, 2010
So PJreads wrote that they’d like to sign up for the read-a-thon, but I’d have to read either Ursula Le Guin or Sheri Tepper. And I was like, “URSULA, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, URSULA, because I have read enough Tepper for the rest of my LIFE!”
And PJreads very rationally asked which books I had [...]
Oliver is disgusted by the fact that the appropriately-named Candace Camp is TOUCHING HIM, OMIGOD.
Anyway, the read-a-thon? Is ON. This weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, I will read until my cold dead eyes weep tears of blood. I will post reviews as I go. At the end, I will count up the number of books [...]
Posted in YA, books, paranormal, romance on Jul 19th, 2010
So my family loves horrible things. Like really, truly, deeply loves them. My mother forced all of us to see Snakes on a Plane while it was still in the theater; one of my sister’s favorite movies is Van Helsing. In fact, my sister is so dedicated to ridiculous books and movies that she’s actually [...]
Posted in YA, books, paranormal, zombies on Jul 16th, 2010
L.J. Smith, Dark Visions: The Strange Power; The Possessed; The Passion
Psychic boarding school goes horribly, horribly wrong!
Seriously, people. Haven’t y’all ever read Lois Duncan’s Down a Dark Hall? If you have psychic powers and someone offers you a scholarship, RUN FOR THE FUCKING HILLS!
Ahem. It never goes well. It’s always part of some government experiment/corporate [...]
Sophie Littlefield: A Bad Day for Sorry: A Crime Novel
A couple years ago, Stella Hardesty finally had enough of her husband’s abuse and took a wrench to his head. Surprisingly enough, she didn’t go to jail for his murder, but ever since then she’s been really pushing her legal luck by opening a “second [...]
