Well bleh. Long story short: I broke up with Glee tonight. Ryan Murphy's soapbox has become a towering platform of fail, complete with straight shaming and a huge slap in the face to bisexuals everywhere. At one point I nearly wanted to vomit. Then Brittany and Santana did it for me. Goodbye, silly show with so much wasted potential. I will miss ( Read more... )

You know how I like to save up my little bullet points until I have a respectable, post-worthy length ( Read more... )

Nabbed from zankoku_zen... BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

( BBC's 100 Books )

From just about everyone... This can be a quick one. Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Wicked by Gregory McGuire
Little ( Read more... )

Why must my brain be difficult? It constantly challenges material, bending and twisting and morphing and re-shaping it like clay, until it most closely resembles what I want to see. Days when I'm writing, I'm grateful... but when I can't so much as sit and enjoy a book without my mind being so damn contrary, it becomes a problem ( Read more... )

My Honors English teacher freshman year (or "freshwoman", as my feminist Catholic high school often corrected) was a bit of a doofy, dorky genius. While the rest of the grade level was tackling reading list standards, Mr. Krause let us bypass selections like The Scarlet Letter and Red Badge of Courage in favor of some offbeat choices - The Jungle, ( Read more... )

Supposed to be working remotely today, but the pull of my bed and tales of the Black Dagger Brotherhood have proven too powerful. God, when was the last time I curled up with a book? I used to read three, maybe four a week. Before yesterday, I think the last one I cracked was Natural Born Charmer, the day of its release. And since I'm a speed- ( Read more... )