Books MG/YA fiction The Emerald Atlas ( **** – liked) Homeland ( *** – enjoyed) Fiction Body Double (**** – liked) Vanish (**** – liked) Daybreak (**** – liked) The Sisters Brothers (**** – liked) Non-fiction Outliers: The Story of Success (**** – liked) The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How…
Books YA/MG fiction The Crown of Embers (***** – loved) Glimmer (**** – liked) Hunger: A Gone Novel (*** – enjoyed) Shadowland (*** – enjoyed) Lies: A Gone Novel (*** – enjoyed) Ninth Key (*** – enjoyed) Adult fiction The Tragedy of Arthur (**** – liked) Alif the Unseen (**** – liked) The…
I’m over sacrifice. In fiction, that is. I’m not quite as excited as I used to be about climaxes where Mr. Spock gasps out his last words on the other side of the radioactivity-shielding glass or Harry Potter whips off his Invisibility Cloak in the middle of a Death Eater…
Books YA/MG fiction The Girl of Fire and Thorns (***** – loved) Leverage (***** – loved) Adult fiction Whispers Under Ground (***** – loved) The Last Policeman: A Novel (**** – liked) Redshirts (*** – enjoyed) The Surgeon (**** – liked) Adult non-fiction Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy…
(Pneumonia update: no more pneumonia (hooray!) but lungs still need to recover (boo!)) On the lead-up to the holidays, nothin’ but… YA novels, baby! Texas Gothic (**** – liked) Chime (***** – loved) The Scorpio Races (**** – liked) I am J (**** – liked) Hush (**** – liked) Where the Streets Had a Name (****…
(Pneumonia update: still coughin’ :P) You may recall that earlier this year, I posted a blog entry on three season premieres. Here’s the follow-up as we hit the holiday break. Slight spoilers, but everything is really vague. Dexter (season 7) Status: stopped watching at 7×06
Books YA/MG fiction The Opposite of Hallelujah (***** – loved) Adult fiction Zoo City (***** – loved) Beauty and the Werewolf (*** – enjoyed) Broken Harbour (***** – loved) Adult non-fiction Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (*** – enjoyed) Movies Wreck-It Ralph (**** – liked) In…
Books YA/MG fiction Blood Red Road (***** – loved) Where Things Come Back (***** – loved) Insurgent (**** – liked) The Clockwork Three (*** – enjoyed) Graphic novels Friends With Boys (**** – liked) Adult fiction Deadlocked (*** – enjoyed) Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders (**** – liked) Uncle…
… I’m thinking about fiction, and you will be, too. (WARNING: due to the nature of this discussion, this blog entry will contain swear words and references to works that depict graphic violence. No graphic violence in the blog itself, though.) The first novel manuscript I ever wrote was called Just…
(But first, Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and happy birthday, Banana Boy! (Hey, you don’t like your real name used on the Internet, so be grateful I didn’t pick the more embarrassing of your childhood nicknames…))