First of all, I'd like to apologize for taking so long to continue with Banned Books Month (since it's not even October anymore). Unfortunately, it took me a LONG time to get my hands on Habibi. It should proceed as regularly scheduled now.

The Book: Habibi, by Craig Thompson.

The Banhammer: "nudity, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group ( Read more... )

BUCKLE UP, GUYS, THIS IS A WEIRD ONE ( Read more... )

I am so mad at this book, augh, but it isn't because it's bad. It's not. It's about as good as your average Mercedes Lackey book: lots of infodumping, a rather incoherent plot, but excellent writing and wonderful characters for all that, plus some (not a lot, but some) meditations on the nature of magic, on killing with magic, and the morality ( Read more... )

This is one of those little read-'em-in-two-hours romance novels, the kind they publish four of every month and send them out to subscribers. I usually quite enjoy these, though they're generally pretty forgettable. This one.. is interesting, because I enjoyed it, but I don't think it's a very good romance novel at all. More on that anon ( Read more... )

Oh Jesus, did this book ever get visited by the Squick Fairy. Actually most of Mercedes Lackey's books seem to have done that for me, alas. I still like it for reasons that are about to come up, but now it makes me cringe, blah ( Read more... )

Didn't get all my reviews done by yesterday, so I'll just do doubles until I'm caught up. Today's offerings, a Bad Bad Book and a pretty decent one ( Read more... )

Many and many a year ago, I picked up a biography of Richard II at the library and never got around to reading it. Then, I went to visit Isanah, and we watched Sparkly King Jesus: The Musical the BBC's production of Richard II, and I wanted to find out the facts as opposed to Shakespeare's version of history, which is not always... the most ( Read more... )

I usually really like Sarah MacLean's books, but this one just... eeeh ( Read more... )

I like true crime. I think I've said so on this blog before, but just in case; I like true crime. I find it generally reassuring to read about, when they catch the criminals, and interesting anyway when they don't. Tender Murderers, being a collection of short biographies of female murderers, sounded like fun, the more so because it contained an ( Read more... )

Ordinarily I wouldn't have reviewed this for some time, as it's research for a story and probably constitutes mild spoilers if you figure out which story it's connected to, but you know what, fuck it, I have to warn you guys ( Read more... )