All the Best Books of 1983
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, 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 books, gender, history, nonfiction, race, true crime on Jun 29th, 2010
Linda Wolfe, The Murder of Dr. Chapman: The Legendary Trials of Lucretia Chapman and Her Lover
In 1831, a certain Dr. Chapman died of what his doctors assumed was cholera; turns out he was poisoned. His wife and her young Cuban émigré lover were put on trial separately—not entirely surprisingly, Lino (the man) was found guilty [...]
Posted in books, feminism, gender, history, nonfiction, political, race, true crime, whores! on Jun 24th, 2010
I AM SO PSYCHED, Y’ALL!
EVEN THOUGH I HAVEN’T READ A BOOK IN LIKE, A WEEK, LET’S PRETEND LIKE I’M STILL LITERATE!
Karen Abbott, Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul
A story about the vice district in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century, Sin in the Second City [...]
So last night I was talking to a friend, and she mentioned that her boyfriend had had a dream about me. But not in a creepy way.
“He dreamed that I was out of town, and that all these sexy ladies kept texting him, wanting to have the sex with him because they were so sexy,” [...]
My family is–shockingly!–a bit competitive when it comes to our reading prowess. In the days after each Harry Potter was released, half of our collective attention was always focused on the story itself, while the other half was focused on how quickly everyone else was making their way through said story. FANG!, due to his [...]
Okay, I feel like we didn’t properly understand each other when I wrote this post. It didn’t help that I wrote said post on my brother’s computer while he and Brandy were in the other room going, “Are you done yet? Are you done yet? GODDAMMIT, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO BE DONE?”
Why, yes! I [...]
Posted in domestic violence, gender, homosexuality, romance, television on Apr 30th, 2010
Can I just take a moment to say that I suck at doing anything in slow, measured increments? Like, seriously. I am a marathoner, through and through. When I was in college I had to finish the rough draft of a paper in one go, had to finish the edits in one go; hell, even [...]
Posted in domestic violence, gender, personal, political on Apr 26th, 2010
Recently, a friend of mine got an email from an old boyfriend—a guy who degraded her, alienated her from her friends and family, made her cry on a regular basis, and made her afraid for her physical safety. A guy who was such a shit to everyone in her life that when she ended it [...]
First, thank you to everyone who responded to this post. Y’all have given me a much better idea of what to enter.
Second, a book review. With bonus zombies. Wheeeee!!!!
Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves (Forest of Hands and Teeth, Book 2)
I believe I reviewed the first book in the series…oh yeah, here it is:
Carrie Ryan, The [...]
