First read: 26-12-2009
Comments: 26.000 words. Humour, social commentary, (gay) teenagers and their angst (romantic, familial and otherwise), what one can expect from Scoradh. Loved it, and it's emminently quotable. The ending came a bit suddenly to me but it's probably me. Will re-read for sure.

Quotes:

>> Mrs Hedges' habits were nocturnal and she ( Read more... )

"Children of Men" by P.D. James

First read: 11.2009

Comments: I was really surprised to discover James is a woman (I knew she wrote mystery) because the main character is an extremely Rational man in his fifties, skeptic and desilutioned with everything, not without reason since he lives in a childless world but one can tell he wasn't a very happy ( Read more... )

"Call me by your name" by Andre Aciman

scoradh basically quoted them all) but the novel over all dragged, it didn't keep me interested for long and the main character goes overboard with his teenaged antics. Oliver, for all the descriptions, remains quite flat a character, not a person of his own but a fantasy of the POV character. Read 3/4.

2009, 2009: ( Read more... )

First read: .10.11.2009

Comments: The childhood of the author between his insane mother, his absent father and his mother's psychologist, with whom he's sent to live. His life is majorly insane, often disgusting and always depressing. I'm not sure what makes this readable, let alone interesting but I kept listening, somehow.

2009, 2009: novel in ( Read more... )

First read: 30.10.2009

Comments: Final book in the trilogy. Enjoyable.

2009: 4rd, 2009, 2009: novel in english, book-2009, novel, *author: male, @read in english, -young adult, -fantasy, author: scott westerfeld, trilogy: midnighters

First read: 20.09.2009

Comments: 94.000 words. Two guys in an alternate Wild West where a meteorite hit the middle of the USA and left lots of monster and a very useful material called "devilstone", Adam is a scientist using it to create everything from lamps to nuclear bombs, he hires Kris as his gunslinger.

A bit too schmoopy, plus no UST or real ( Read more... )

 "Her Fearful Simmetry" by Audrey Niffenegger

First read: 17.10.2009
Comments: The Time traveler's wife set really high expectations for Niffenegger's second novel. Then when the topic at hand: twins, turned out to be much to my taste it seemed like i had won a literary lottery of some kind. Turns out I handn't, the novel, although not bad, it's not ( Read more... )

First read: 04.10.2009
Comments: 2000 words. Interesting analysis of different types of "straight girls".

2009, 2009: short-story in english, book-2009, -cuento/short-story, *author: female, @read in english, -lesbian

 "on the Lambda Literary Awards and the art of disappearing" by RM .  [essay: opinion, fandom]

First read: 29.09.2009
Comments: 
2009, 2009: essay in english, book-2009, -essay, *author: female, @read in english, fandom essay: queer

First read: 28.09.2009

Comments: I just re-read my comments on the first book of this trilogy and discovered i had thought it endlessly brilliant, in my head it was just a very exciting adventure without too much character development, I concur with my memory and not the real past-me. Not to say I didn't love it but 
in the end I only like one ( Read more... )