Five months of pop culture, GO!
Orange is the New Black uses a typical protagonist (white, blonde, privileged) to tell stories about a bunch of non-typical characters (women of colour, bisexual/lesbian women, and a trans woman). The more I think about the season’s climax, the more I think it does the series a disservice, but the show as a whole ( Read more... )

I have lots to write about regarding London, but first, some book reviews!

(Also, my book review post for March - April seems to have vanished, which is very weird.)

Crazy for You by Jennifer Crusie
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Immortal ( Read more... )

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The Boyfriend Thief by Shana Norris
Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey
( Potted thoughts )

Something I've been meaning to do for a while, and was finally inspired to get off my rear and finish thanks to some discussion on Saturday at the Sydney Slashers Who Meet So Frequently the Bar Staff Knows Our Orders gathering.

Herein, thoughts on

Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season by David Shields
The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago, at the Sydney Slashers Who Talk Very Loudly In a Bar gathering, SQ and Alasen and I spent an enjoyable while talking about LGBT YA. SQ just posted a list of reviews here, and it reminded me that I was keeping a little text file with LGBT YA reviews in it a couple of years ago. So I dug it out and cleaned it up and thought ( Read more... )