I've been reading John Green and David Levithan's Will Grayson, Will Grayson, which is really two books smushed together. Specifically, it is one book that I like and one book that makes me want to stab somebody with a spoon, and that somebody is definitely, definitely, definitely the main character ( Read more... )

Since reading Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, I’ve been pondering how such a stale romance became a classic. If a woman had written it (she says bitterly) it would probably be as maligned as Twilight, because the relationship is even duller than Bella & Edward’s and the heroine yet more self-abnegating.

Yes! Yet more! People like to slam ( Read more... )

My aunt is a Twilight aficionado, so we've had a movie marathon which ended this weekend with Breaking Dawn, Part 1.

I think Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has started a terrible, terrible trend. I'm pretty sure they could have fit all of Breaking Dawn into one movie if they really triedAlthough they might have had to leave out Charlie's ( Read more... )

Twilight's Bella Swan is a much maligned character. While her critics' claim that she has no personality is not quite true, what personality she has is nevertheless stunted. She apparently had no friends in Arizona, and she couldn't care less about her "friends" in Forks. She has no hobbies except cooking, and that doesn't seem to give her any joy ( Read more... )

First: what was up with the second Scrubs episode tonight? Why were all the lights off, and where was the rest of the cast? Not that I have anything against JD and Turk, but I missed everyone else. And it was depressing, and not the bittersweet kind of depressing that Scrubs sometimes has, but just straight up depressing ( Read more... )

You know what would make the world a better place? If books had more illustrations. I’ve been looking at books from the 1920s and earlier (because it grieves me to think of all the years they’ve languished unloved on the library shelves) and they all have illustrations. So does The Perilous Gard (which also has fairies and Tam Lin and a love story ( Read more... )

I’ve never actually read Twilight (teen romance and vampires are two of my least favorite things) but this parody is beyond hilarious.

Edward removed his shoes and rolled up the cuffs of his jeans, and I gasped at the sight of his white, smooth ankles. Sunlight reflected off his toenails, each an ivory glint of perfection. This just made my week ( Read more... )