All the Best Books of 1983
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, 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 [...]
Posted in YA, books, fantasy, fiction, horror, paranormal, race, romance on Jul 2nd, 2010
So my internet went out earlier this week, but I still had to do job-searching and posting and other quaint things like that, so I betook myself to Panera. BUT! They had limited their free wifi to thirty minutes, so…yeah. That didn’t work so well. I mean, my time management doesn’t COMPLETELY suck, but you [...]
Posted in YA, books, fantasy, fiction, television on May 21st, 2010
And now! A bunch of short reviews of various media!
Triple
A KDrama helmed by the team behind Coffee Prince, this could have been SO GOOD but went SO WRONG. Lee Haru’s mom and stepdad die in a car crash, so she goes to live with her biological father; this means that she has to give up [...]
Posted in YA, books, fantasy, fiction, historical fiction, history, mysteries, whores! on May 20th, 2010
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I have a lot of unread books. Some might say that there’s always a danger of avalanche when it comes to my unread book collection, and, well, I might say that they’re right. I’m working on it, though, and this past week I was able to start clearing out [...]
Despite the fact that KDrama is currently my ruling passion (seriously, I think George is starting to get jealous), I have actually managed to read a few books over the past few days. I’m trying to get through some of my massive wall o’ books before we move, not to mention all that shit I’ve [...]
Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey: A Novel
Now don’t get me wrong: I actually liked this book. I know! I’m reviewing something that I enjoyed! It’s so weird! Let’s all try not to hyperventilate until we pass the hell out!
…seriously, that was always a distinct possibility when I was a child. Do you have ANY idea [...]
Elizabeth C. Bunce, A Curse Dark as Gold
Charlotte Miller’s father dies, leaving behind two daughters, no male heirs, and a run-down mill (of the cloth variety, not the grain variety). Charlotte has the odds stacked against her–very few people are willing to do business with a female business owner–but she manages to struggle through…until a [...]
Posted in books, fantasy, fiction, gender, historical fiction, history, reposts, romance, steampunk on Feb 14th, 2010
I was reading steampunk before I knew what steampunk was. Awww. Aren’t I cute?
Things Go Boom
January 2, 2009
Jenny Davidson, The Explosionist
In these tough economic times, it is totally okay to read your sister’s Christmas present before you give it to her, which is why I held off wrapping this until I’d made the train ride [...]
