( Patient Zero, by Marilee Peters )

Just a quick one today, folks ( Read more... )

I do love Emma Donoghue's fiction. I think her short stories are well-crafted and her novels intelligent and warm, and she tends to include queer characters who are just queer without centering the story on their queerness, a thing I always love. So naturally when I saw that she'd written a book on queer women's literature in seventeenth and ( Read more... )

I'm gonna start right out by saying that this book is a ton of fun ( Read more... )

So We Read On is an extended litcrit of The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I am very fond of The Great Gatsby. It's well-crafted and I love reading it, watching the story arc upwards and then crash, watching how skillfully Fitzgerald wrote the story. Also I ship Nick/Gatsby and frankly I think if you read the book outside of school you ( Read more... )

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... )

I got this out of the library more or less on a whim, and I'm glad I did. It's a book of... mostly feminist essays, I say mostly because some of them are difficult to quantify and one at least wanders into literary criticism ( Read more... )

Man, it's been a while since I did one of these. Erm. Oops.

What have you recently finished reading?

The Calamity Papers: Western Myths and Cold Cases, by Dale L. Walker. This was kind of cool? He covered a few myths and crimes that took place in the old West, starting with the death of Meriwether Lewis and moving on to the death of Jack London ( Read more... )

What have you recently finished reading?Charlie All Night, Jennifer Crusie. Reread. I really love Crusie's novels, as she has a great grasp of character and a hilarious ear for dialogue. This one includes Joe, who is my favorite character in the history of her books, because Joe is fantastic and also Charlie is screwing up his love life ( Read more... )

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