New review: This Gorgeous Game, by Donna Freitas. An important book that I nevertheless do not want to read ever again.

( Or, YOUR TWEEN SERIES IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD. )

All of my books arrived. I shouldn't really be reading them until the semester is officially over, but I'm already nearly done with Twilight (pretty easy to read something that's essentially the same set of sentences repeated roughly 1000 times). I want to read War for the Oaks second as a palate cleanser, but I should probably hold off on that ( Read more... )

I'm a little soothed today. Next semester I will not be taking any formal classes; instead the plan is to teach and get supersrs about my thesis. The grad school allows for TAs to take six hours of thesis credit and be counted as full time students in order to retain the assistantship, but I'm not allowed to, say, take those hours and a workshop ( Read more... )

In a fit of madness I ordered some books from Amazon yesterday, some from the recommendations I asked for long ago (Pamela Dean's Tam Lin, Naomi Novik's first dargon book), one by necessity (Northanger Abbey), and some I've just been meaning to read for reasons pure and perverse (War for the Oaks, Twilight). Twilight in particular I have been ( Read more... )