The last movie I talked about here was Tomorrowland. I hated that movie. It was such a disappointment. I didn't hate the Miss Peregrine film adaptation. It wasn't terrible. It also wasn't good. Why? That's tricky to unpack ( Read more... )

At the moment, I am on spring break. Since I am unable to take any time off without experiencing extreme guilt and anxiety, you can imagine what a barrel of joy I am at the moment. I've done some tidying up, ordered new sheet music for teaching, worked out my high Fs since it was about damn time, started doing planks (today may be a second day off ( Read more... )

Fifty Shades must be a popular topic around here, because those posts are generating more spam comments than the usual heavy hitters in this journal. Hooray, I guess. So, the latest news on that subject is this fun post linking it to pedophilia.

Guys, I hate the Fifty Shades series. I hate it with a passion. I think that anyone who relates to it ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, devoted minions, I am finished with this travesty of a series. These books are so bad that I may very delete them from my Kindle for all time, because I have no desire to ever read them again. They make Hush Hush look good by comparison ( Read more... )

In the last installment, Ana discovered that she was pregnant. She is now terrified of what Christian's reaction will be and damned if he doesn't turn out to be even more disturbing, abusive and unpleasant than even she expected. Christian is mad because a baby will get in the way of his fun. No. Really. That's what he says. He's also pissed ( Read more... )

I was clicking around comparison's of text between Master of the Universe and Fifty Shades and discovered that my hunch about the third book was correct. The text of the first two books in the series was formerly Master of the Universe  and the third book is Master of the Unverse II ( Read more... )

Guys, this took longer to get through than usual because this bunch of chapters are just that rage-inducing. I hate these people. I hate people who are like these people or aspire to be like them. I keep trying to remind me that this is supposed to be a fun fantasy, but it doesn't feel like fun to me at all. It feels like one woman's three books ( Read more... )

Back when I embarked on this adventure, I told myself that I would treat these books as an extended scene that had been agreed upon by all the participants. At the time, I was under the impression that these books were what they had been advertised to be- a BDSM romance that had been written as a Twilight fanfic. Unfortunately, these books are ( Read more... )

Had I been thinking ahead, I would have included these two chapters in the last installment, but I was just so pissed that I had to bitch a bit before slogging through that last little bit of silly ( Read more... )

At this point, the first person narration is really a problem. You see, Christian's behavior is no longer honeymoon phase sociopath. The guy is happily engaging in the kind of destructive behavior that characterizes the devaluation phase of the relationship. We are meant to accept that his explanations for his actions are true, because Ana wants ( Read more... )