Since I read so many more books than I'll ever review, I've decided to start keeping track of them in my LJ.

( Cut for your convenience )

Since I read so many more books than I'll ever review, I've decided to start keeping track of them in my LJ.

( Since Juldea requested the cut )

Fragile Eternity (which, now having read it, makes so much sense as a title) ends not-quite-abruptly. Don't get me wrong, the ending is smooth and well-paced, but Fragile Eternity is pretty much just setting up for whatever book comes next. And damn. Whatever book comes next is going to be AWESOME ( Read more... )

So, apparently this week was "Read Really Bad P&P Sequels" week. I wish I'd known that ahead of time. Of course, to be fair, these two books could have been part of a contest; a "Who Can Write the Most OOC Fitzwilliam Darcy EVAR." If that's true...then I'm kinda at a loss at judging who won. On the one hand, Altman had Darcy doing several ( Read more... )

The Shadow Queen, Anne Bishop (birthday gift from ddrpolaris)

So, after reading Butler, Shakespeare, and Oates all in a row, I decided it was time for something a little more frivolous. The Winter's Tale and Beasts weren't intellectually taxing, but they were intellectually rigorous. Since I'm also working on my thesis and planning Othello, I need a little ( Read more... )

Beasts, Joyce Carol Oates ( Read more... )

Stolen from aliciablade

I have a GIANT stack of unread books in my house. In fact, I have several shelves devoted to them. It's not their fault they've been abandoned, poor things. So, I'm taking up the Nine for '09 ChallengeUnsurprisingly, the goal is to read nine books that you already own during 2009. The trick: they must fit into the nine categories ( Read more... )

The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's lesser-known plays; though still popular, it isn't one the Big Comedies, Tragedies, or Histories. The Winter's Tale is one of his romances, a genre that appeared much later in his career. The most famous of these is The Tempest (which, y'know, I'm just not really all ( Read more... )

The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, Lauren Willig

In my review of the previous book, The Seduction of the Crimson Rose (that book, like this one, is not as tawdry as the title would have you believe), I gave the background for the whole series, so you may wish to read the first two paragraphs of that if you're feeling lost.

Anyway, The ( Read more... )

Gender Trouble, Judith Butler ( Read more... )