I am ruined for The Host. Reading it is giving me an aneurysm.

I've been sitting here for ten minutes trying to decide whether having a Post-It note that read "Daily Asskicking:" would be highly unprofessional or not.

Poll Daily Asskicking: Y/N

Thinking about GoodReads and all has made me wander back to books I've loved, and even though everyone and their cousin's boyfriend has read this book I still think that it's worthwhile, if not epic in terms of literature. The thing about a supposedly "sci-fi" book also being literary is total shit though, considering a) it's not sci-fi except for ( Read more... )

Jacob Black: is a werewolf, and his last name is Black.

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Though there's a hiccup with the whole Native American thing. But srsly, crossover plz. Ha.

So in the fit of boredom that was all of last week, I read Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series, which I then promptly threw across the room. I screamed and ranted about ( Read more... )

I'm making my mother's book club read Henry Jenkins. Why? Because I am full of win. Also, Kung Fu Panda was hilarious and awesome ( Read more... )

/flails around about how much she loves her favorite author and cannot wait to buy her book (why next year whyyyy)

So I was thinking of characters that I love. Unfortunately I have a tendency to favorite male characters to female characters. Whether this has to do with writing (in movies and television shows, the writers are usually male), my own subconscious patriarchal bias (male characters are more likely to be protagonists/empathized with) or the lack of ( Read more... )

Just finished City of Bones and it was pretty much what I expected. Which is to say, it was nowhere near as awesome as some books I've read recently whose authors I was skeptical of (Ms. Meyer, I'm looking at you), but I'm still quite quite pleased to see these authors that I have been reading for years graduate to published material. There were ( Read more... )

• 1 mango
• 2 avocados
• 6 Fuji apples
• 2 crates of organic strawberries
• 2 cucumbers

I'm learning more and more what I want from real fiction, why so many books on bookstore shelves bore me [though bookstores are always heaven] when I start reading them... and it's my quick assessment of the amount of love an author has for their characters. And the lack thereof always comes through, like holes in the roof during a thunderstorm. ( Read more... )

holy shit, she just described the only kind of fictional romance I've ever been able to buy / affected by...

( I'll die if she doesn't pick Dorkface )