Er. I appear to have tripped and committed meta.

On Moffat, Misogyny, and Children’s Stories

“The Leopard of Little Breezes yawned up and farther off from the rooftops of Omaha, Nebraska, to which September did not even wave good-bye. One ought not to judge her: All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can ( Read more... )

Occasionally my best friend asks me for book suggestions for her...step-nephew? He likes the Percy Jackson books (which I've not read), so I'm trying to keep my recommendations to fantasy with a mythological bent, although occasionally I slip up and just recommend a favorite that doesn't quite fit the criteria. Here's what I've recommended so far ( ( Read more... )

You know, it occurs to me that if I never see another movie that makes a parallel between a nature program and a character's sex life, it will in fact be too soon ( Read more... )

Actually, two thoughts.

( spoilers for aired episodes and 'Pond Life,' but no spoilers for 7x05 )

Can you believe I hadn't read A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones yet? Me either. I thought the ending was rather sudden (I mean the *very* ending, the "what are we to do with Vivian, then?" bit), but I spent a good deal of the book being overcome by conscientious android feelings and wanting there to be time ghosts in, like, every book ever ( Read more... )

So this is a thing that exists in the world, which means that I totally just embarrassed myself by flailing on a street corner in front of the local bookstore window:

The Annotated Phantom Tollboothhttp://www.randomhouse.com/book/89119 ( Read more... )

Instead of doing anything useful today (well, besides a load of laundry), I accidentally read a book. (It was a very short book.) It's a children's book called When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, which was recommended in this book by the editors of Horn Bookhttp://www.hbook ( Read more... )

Well, except for the last adjective. It's not exactly crazy around these parts.

I decided that yesterday needed to be another no-internet day, so instead I read a children's historical novel, Alchemy and Meggy Swann. This is the first book I've read by Karen Cushman, even though I always meant to read Catherine, Called Birdy, way back during one ( Read more... )

You know, I keep thinking I should try my hand at the 30 Days of Shakespeare meme, but a quick glance at the questions leads me to believe that way too many of my answers would involve Twelfth Night for there to be any suspense in the undertaking.

Anyway. Instead of doing Shakespeare memes, I have been reading children's and YA books:

1. The ( Read more... )

Books I've read lately:

The good:

1. White Cat (The Curse Workers: Book One), by Holly Black. In which Cassel Sharpe, the only non-worker in a family full of magic workers (in a world where magic is outlawed and so frequently has ties to underground crime), begins to think that his memories--especially those of killing his best friend Lila-- ( Read more... )