While inspired rants can be fun, it was high time to spend some time reviewing a book that I could actually reccomend. It might not be the right cup of tea for readers around here, but if you need to give a child a book (and really, if there is a child in your life, you should give them one,) I highly reccomend Under the Green Hill by Laura L. ( Read more... )

All right, so for those of you who don't know, national book day is April 23rd, in the spirit of which my local librarian has gifted me with seven YA and JYA novels, and I am in the process of reading, reviewing, and distributing them.

So, in the spirit of making fewer of these reviews funny literary rants and of reviewing books which don't already ( Read more... )

Let me start this by saying that normally I don't review until I've finished a book, but since I'm on chapter 7 and already struggling with the desire to MST3K this thing, I will start here.

The scientist in me is dying a little with every page that I read. The novelist in me is currently hiding under a table.

( The ignorance of most people about radiation was appalling )