A more intensive review on this book is coming when I finish it, but for now...

Dear Mr. Mariotte;

Bisexual is not a lifestyle. Educate yourself.

*glare*
me

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Oh my god nooooo oh my god, Maureen Corrigan, you cannot take Kate Beaton's comics as a serious literary adaptation of The Great Gatsby. They are comics. They are jokes. They are not a serious literary adaptation nor intended to be oh my god.I guess maybe you can be mad that she's making jokes about a ~great American Novel~, but Jesus, I friggin ( Read more... )

Dear world as a whole:

Can someone tell me what is up with writing the stories of historical women from the point of view of fictional men?

Look. Agrippina was a badass bitch. I would love to read her story from her point of view, because she did some really nasty things in the name of getting her son to the emperor's throne. I would love to ( Read more... )

Actually not a review of the book so much as the back cover copy, but...

Dear Back Cover Copy Writer:

Bipolar. And schizophrenia. Are not. The same thing.

Fuck you very much.No love ( Read more... )

Dear Mr. Dickens ( Read more... )

Gentle Reader ( Read more... )

Dear Ms. Vernon ( Read more... )

Dear Ms. Butcher:

Thank you, thank you, thank you for having a female character get an abortion and not be judged by the text or by her babydaddy.

Thank you for having her babydaddy's reaction be guilt for not being there for her rather than going all Judgy McDoucherson.

Thank you for having it be her choice, and no one else's.

Thank you.Love ( Read more... )

1) O flist, I need your help. Y'all are a literate bunch or you wouldn't be hanging around my LJ. What, in your opinion, is Shakespeare's most exciting play ( Read more... )

KATHLEEN, OUR HEROINE: Dylan! I must tell you something. I am not actually the rich heiress you thought me to be, but in reality a poor Irish maid ( Read more... )