Books YA/MG fiction The Sixty-Eight Rooms ( *** – enjoyed) Adult fiction Sandman Slim: A Novel (**** – liked) Hide Me Among the Graves (**** – liked) Adult non-fiction Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks & the Hidden Powers of the Mind (**** – liked) Feynman’s Rainbow ( **** –…
… but mostly, yeah, they still are. Also, I need to define “jerkwad,” because by the rules of storytelling, pretty much every fictional character in whom I have an interest is a jerkwad to someone. There’s an antagonist, and no matter how good our hero or heroine, sometimes sh*t gets…
Movies Foreverland (** – found interesting) Brave (**** – liked) Safety Not Guaranteed (**** – liked) Books YA/MG fiction: Monster (***** – loved) Anna Dressed in Blood (***** – loved) Adult fiction: The Angel of Darkness (***-enjoyed) The Eyre Affair (**** – liked) Moon Over Soho (***** – loved) The…
This is in response to my friend Steve’s post over at his blog, to which he has kindly allowed me to reply in the interests of opening friendly discussion (and also in the interests of giving both of us fodder for future blog entries. Win-win!). I actually meant to write…
But first and most importantly: happy Father’s Day, Dad! You’re the best! So I’m not exactly a poetry buff. Certainly I’m not a poet; although I have one Hilroy containing a couple angsty verses dating back to my thirteenth or fourteenth year, even that is mostly semi-humourous garbage. I can’t…
Without question, the most complicated character in my personal fictional jerkwads hall-of-fame is Peter Pan.
If I went to Hogwarts, I’d want to be Sorted into Slytherin. But not because I like power or ambition, because I see myself as cunning or ruthless, or even because I like the idea of being a “bad girl.”
(Yes, it’s Monday, I know. Sorry. Dissertation stuff not over yet! Allow me to appease you by offering: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Go read it.) Over the past year, I’ve found myself unintentionally becoming a YA novel hipster. As my friends and family get hooked on Suzanne Collins’s…
Meant to write a more thematic entry, but am feeling pretty under the weather after spending yesterday rolling down hills in a giant hamster ball filled with water whilst wearing a bathing suit in 10-degree-Celsius weather. Uh… I mean, shana tova, and stay tuned for something more appropriate to the…
A new format! Check it! IN THIS EDITION: (click on the link to jump to the micro review) Books non-fiction: 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God (** – found interesting) Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (***** – loved) YA/MG fiction: The Thirteenth Child…