It's been a while since I've done one of these.

Title: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Author: Ariel Levy
Stars: 4/5
Review From Amazon: What does sexy mean today? Levy, smartly expanding on reporting for an article in New York magazine, argues that the term is defined by a pervasive raunch culture wherein women make sex ( Read more... )

Since I didn't write reviews for any of the Terry Pratchett books I've read I decided to make a few notes about them, so I can remember what I liked and disliked about each one. Hearts go by my very favorite.

( Thoughts )

Just finished reading Wuthering Heights and yeah, it's one of the most annoying books I've ever read. I understood the importance of the book--that humans are fallible and everyone has flaws, but gah, there wasn't a single sympathetic character in the whole book. The characters ranged from 'annoying' to 'want-to-reach-into-the-book-and-kill- ( Read more... )

I recently read Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. It was a rather unusual book about a man who makes up a potion to rid the world of the evil half of people, ends up casting off the good half while under the potions effects, and winds up addicted to the freedom he gets from being 'Mr. Hyde' a man whom everyone hates and who never has to be confined by his ( Read more... )

Title: Give Up the Ghost
Author: Megan Crewe
Published: September 15, 2009
Genre: young adult, urban fantasy
Pages: 256
First Line: "You would think it's be easy to get along with a person after she's dead."
Product Description (from amazon): Cass McKenna prefers ghosts over “breathers.” Ghosts are uncomplicated and dependable, and they know the dirt on ( Read more... )

Okay, so I read this book about a month ago, when I was taking a break from lj, and I never got around to reviewing it.

Title: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Author: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Published: August 7, 2007
Genre: fantasy, humor
Pages: No idea. I don't have the book right now, I think it's about 400 ( Read more... )

Whee. I finished another book. And I'm also trying out a new format for reviewing books.

Title: City of Glass
Author: Cassandra Clare
Published: March 24, 2009
Genre: young adult, urban fantasy
Pages: 541
First Line: "The cold snap of the previous week was over; the sun was shining brightly as Clary hurried across Luke's dusty front yard, the hood of her ( Read more... )

Crap, I've been away from this journal for a while. *shrugs* Oh, well. I've read a few books since then. One of which is ( Read more... )

Amazon: Taylor Markham isn’t just one of the new student leaders of her boarding school, she’s also the heir to the Underground Community, one of three battling school factions in her small Australian community (the others being the Cadets and the Townies). For a generation, these three camps have fought “the territory wars,” a deadly serious ( Read more... )

Amazon: A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is ( Read more... )