Movies Adaptation (**** – liked) Plan 9 From Outer Space (**** – liked) The Secret World of Arrietty (***** – loved) Hugo (**** – liked) Video Games Professor Layton and the Last Specter (**** – liked) Books YA/MG fiction: The Inquisitor’s Apprentice (***** – loved) Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar…
(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…
In over ten years’ worth of novels, I have written maybe three kissing scenes. (I’ve written more for plays, but that’s kinda cheating, because you just write, “They completely devour each other’s faces with tongue and everything for, like, ten minutes!” and then the actors have to do it. Ha…
But first: happy Passover! Happy Easter! And also, happy birthday to my cousin Seb! Yaaaaaaaay! So, if you don’t want to read the rest of this entry, here’s the bottom line: I am enjoying The Good Wife SO HARD.
(I’m baaaaack…) Yes, it’s April Fool’s Day. No, this isn’t a joke. This is me writing about what I’ve come to think is one of the most common problematically expressed artistic criticisms on the Internet: the vilifying of Twilight fans manifested in everything from the Star Alliance to the “Still…