All the Best Books of 1983
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in YA, books, feminism, fiction, gender, historical fiction, history on Jul 13th, 2010
So do you ever pick up a book and know—just know—that it’s going to annoy the shit out of you? And yet you put it in the basket or the cart or under your armpit or whatever and BUY IT ANYWAY?
Yeah. That was pretty much my entire reaction to The Season, and I was right: [...]
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 [...]
Posted in books, fiction, history, nonfiction, political, race, true crime on May 6th, 2010
Not because they have much to do with each other, but because I am so, so, SO lazy.
Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Rachel goes to live with her grandmother after being the sole survivor of a murder-suicide attempt by her mother; her mom, little brother, and baby sister all died. Understandably, [...]
