December requested posts thing the second: five most cracktastic plot twists I have ever encountered, for
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1. For anyone who was curious about the conclusion to the saga of Summer and the Pig-Dragon Boyfriend of Doom,
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I SWEAR TO GOD, this is my LAST Mary Brown reread. NO MORE. But my copy of Playing the Jack finally came in at the library, aka The One With Cross-Dressing And Syphilis, and I couldn't not read it ( Read more... )

So I got my hands on Mary Brown's Pigs Don't Fly, and promptly stayed up way too late last night reading it in horrified fascination. I remembered how weird it was! I had forgotten how TERRIBLE it was. Like, not just the awful fat-shaming -- I remembered that -- and the ablism -- which I had forgotten about but promptly remembered again -- but ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes you all of a sudden remember the existence of an author from your childhood, and you go, "really? Was the heroine's love interest actually a pig that that turned into a dragon? Did the fairies seriously turn out to be aliens that made them do it? Did the villainness have sex with an evil broom? Did that really happen ( Read more... )