The Boy Who Lived Forever by Lev Grossman.

And it's pretty positive about it too!

-Read Lousia May Alcott's Behind a Mask on Sunday. I liked it a lot, surprisingly. Turns out that LMA preferred writing "blood and thunder" stories, it's just that sentimental Little Women-type stories sold better. We've been discussing Behind a Mask all week in Gothic Lit, and Wednesday's eighty-minutes of class was spent almost entirely on ( Read more... )

Man, I'm going to LOVE Fridays. All done at 11.20AM, on top of the usual "Fridays are awesome"? Winzor.

My Gothic Lit. professor now has the first trade of Runaways. And she apparently has a kid at home who is devours graphic novels/comic books. Mwahahahahaha, mine is an evil laugh ( Read more... )

So yeah, I suck with updating.

The obnoxious G.A.P. asshats showed up again. But they were only here for two days this time, yay.

This is made of awesome. Video games for curing diseases! Harnessing the free time of the internet for SCIENCE!

I had my phonology midterm on Tuesday. I think I did okay, but then, I also thought I did okay on the ( Read more... )

Back from vacation! It was glorious and wonderful. The place we stayed was utterly gorgeous. Also, very windy. But I like windy, especially when it doesn't fuck up the power ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JENN! *maul, huggle*

Got a call from the laptop repair people yesterday. They said that the problem was with the fan and the replacement parts are ordered, so I should have it back by the end of the week. I pointed out to my parents later that "Um, duh it's the fan. That's what we told them was the problem, that the fan was making ( Read more... )

So I went to Bellevue Square to meet with astridsdream today. It was way fun :D :D :D We wandered around and looked at swords and electronics and other awesome stuff and discussed ideas about the upcoming Harry Potter book ( Read more... )

So, I did my "leading the discussion" assignment today. We're reading Neuromancer, a cyberpunk novel. One of the main characters, Molly Millions has retractable/extendable razor blades under her fingernails, and a souped up nervous system. She also has occular implants that look like mirrored sunglasses. She's a street samurai, and fucking kick ass ( Read more... )

Happy Belated Discworld Day to everyone ( Read more... )

Ganked from dorksidefikerGive me a pairing, a character or a general fandom and I'll tell you what song I associate with that ( Read more... )