Martin might not survive Revolutionary Boy Martin. But his death will be Achillean.

Today's story starts with pornography and moves on with post-democratic forms of government and ends with Revolutionary Boy Martin ( Read more... )

For Revolutionary Boy Martin. I've spent the past several hours reading the TV Tropes website about the various anime that are, in part, inspiring RBM (stuff like Mai-HiME and Code Geass). Several times I've almost started to do "real research" but stopped because, well, this is real research ( Read more... )

I just finished Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan. It's pretty easily the best book I've read from these young adult novelists, and is probably the best book I've read all year. It's not a good book. It's a great book ( Read more... )

As I continue to toy around with the Revolutionary Boy Martin concept, I decided to become more educated on YA literature front. (What is it about me? I only seem to do research on things I hate? The Bible, Twilight . . . someday I'm going to research something I love and I'll be confused.) Since a movie is being made about it, I decided to ( Read more... )