The new Jem and the Holograms comic is one of the greatest things that has happened to my life in a long time.  Like, I was predisposed to admire it based on the promo artwork alone, but it is cute and fun and a really lovely update to what is - let's be honest - a 30-minute toy commercial with a typically wacky '80s premise.  There's a lotta love ( Read more... )

My Goodreads challenge continues!  The status bar helpfully notes that I am 16 books ahead of schedule.  Hahaha, status bar, you just wait till I hit summer vay-kay and can hit my "one book per day" stride!

Since last we left...

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So the first week in January I signed up for a reading challenge on Goodreads - like, I will read x books this year - and when I did, I saw people were pledging to read 20 books! 36 books! 52 books! ...as though 20 books in a year, on site dedicated to reading books, was not the saddest little goal ever ( Read more... )

Out of morbid curiosity (and because they were all available at my library), I read Kiera Cass' YA Selection trilogy, which consists of The Selection, The Elite, and The One, plus some novellas.

Short summary: In the future, the dystopian monarchy ruling over the former United States re-enacts The Bachelor to pick its crown prince's bride, because ( Read more... )

I recently finished These Broken Stars, a YA space opera (sort of) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner.  It's set in a future (I guess) where humans have become spacefarers of no small ability, colonizing and terraforming all over the place.  Most of the book takes place on one of those terraformed planets, after the good spaceship Titanic Icarus ( Read more... )