Wow. Just finished a back-to-back-to-back Harry Potter readthrough. Three weeks or so, including holidays. Three weeks of these books ( Read more... )

PICO'S GREAT BIG GRANDE MEDIA CONSUMED IN 2014 LIST

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Jan1 - Feb6

Rocannon's World, Ursula Le Guin
---- decent but early-writing, and not so inspiring and beloved as I usually find Le Guin. Gotta start somewhere?
The Chaos, Nalo Hopkinson
---- WOW. Fantastic!
*Johnathon Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke ( Read more... )

How irritating is it when a professional (?) reviewer is actually a really mediocre writer?

Some guy posted a link to his review on a fairly profi-looking website, and yet when you read the review, it sounds like a book essay a high schooler would write - a high-schooler who didn't much care for the book or their English grade and just wanted to ( Read more... )

...because it keeps popping up onto my brain, and I don't believe I was complainsome enough about it in that last post. (Because a good Hungarian can always find more things to complain about :D)

1:The Main Female Character And What I Didn't Like About Her

Hush, Hush presented the reader with a type of person whom I tried to avoid in high school ( Read more... )