Books for RIP except I don't quite remember what RIP is
I am informally MAYBE participating in RIP. I don't even remember who hosts it. Or if it's hosted anymore. BASICALLY, these're the September/October, kind-of-scary-I-guess books I'm hoping to get...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: Some people could look at a mud-puddle and see...
Their are certain books that seem so weirdly divorced from their authors, no matter how autobiographical they may be, that they appear to exist solely to speak the truth about humanity. To Kill a...
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The Mississippi is Huge and Maybe Books Should Make One Travel
I went to Iowa this past weekend, and while my girlfriend drove (...the entire way), I fell asleep, because that is our division of labor. BUT! She is very nice and woke me up when we crossed the...
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Frances Willard Weekend in Evanston, Illinois
Some of you might just possibly be aware that I have a passing interest in 19th century feminist and reform leader Frances Willard. And by "passing" I mean I volunteer with her house museum and...
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2014 Reading Thus Far
We are 3/4 through the year! That's a little exciting. And through the magic of Goodreads, I know what I've read (oh, thank you, Goodreads, for no longer making me keep a bedraggled piece of paper in...
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P.D. James's Cover Her Face: More like Cover Your Eyes, amirite? 'Cause it's...
GUESS WHAT I HAVEN'T BEEN DOING? Reading. Ahahahahaha.Ok but seriously I've started again, but I started with the WORST thing because I decided to finish P.D. James's first book, Cover Her Face.all of...
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The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner: A Book That's STOLEN MY HEART (ahahaha not...
I think it was Elizabeth Fama (I want her book covers as posters) who told me to read The Thief. AND I TRIED TO TAKE THIS ADVICE. But the library kept not having it. Then it finally had it, I checked...
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TV over the Weekend and Can We Please Do Another Minithon?
There are weekends when there is a 24 hour readathon and you make a valiant effort (I have never succeeded in this) and then there are weekends when you read for 20 minutes and then decide to watch...
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Why did we forget about John Grisham so quickly?
Remember how on Thursday, John Grisham defended his friend who was in prison for looking at child pornography and said the sentencing for that was too harsh, and also that prisons were full of...
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The Island of Dr Moreau: Well. I was not expecting that.
What could it mean? A locked enclosure on a lonely island, a notorious vivisector, and these crippled and distorted men?...H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr Moreau has been relegated to campy film status...
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Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix: I am never going to an IKEA at night
There's been a lot of chatter about Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix, mainly because it looks like an IKEA catalog and that is SO COOL. Not to lick Quirk Books's boots, but I keep being completely charmed...
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We should all fall in love with Washington Irving
Halloween is in three days, so I obviously decided to pick up The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. My last memory of it was skimming it in my local library, hoping it would be similar to the Tim Burton movie...
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No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale: "I'm pretty sure if Diane Sawyer...
Kathleen Hale's kind of nutty. We all know that. I started liking her when she responded to that 'Against YA' piece from last June with this piece of brilliance. "This woman is hilarious," said I....
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The Omen: Happy Halloween! (by Doug)
My co-worker and friend Doug is back, and not reviewing 19th century literature for the first time, but rather a book he was given by his friend because he actually wanted to read it. What? So here's...
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Adam by Ariel Schrag: How did I end up liking the straight white boy the most?
A few months back, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt asked if I wanted to review Ariel Schrag's Adam, which I'm assuming I was asked about because lesbians. Tumblr had worried me about this novel because...
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Game of Thrones, Ancient Christian Women, and Old Ministers
I have been READING, and I was reading a variety of things, but then Storm of Swords, the third in the George R.R. Martin Game of Thrones series, grabbed me and now I can read nothing else. And I know...
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Lady Parts by Andrea Martin: I know she probably gets sick of hearing about...
When I saw that Andrea Martin -- SCTV alum and, more importantly, Aunt Voula in My Big Fat Greek Wedding -- had written a book, I immediately badgered HarperCollins about getting a copy to review and...
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CW's Reign: Blood sacrifices! Castle abductions! Sexy Nostradamus!
Reign. What a great show.Do you like ridiculous levels of drama? Do you have a penchant for young people standing on cliffs looking windswept? Do you casually enjoy references to a dark wood next to a...
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Minithons: The Readathon for the Unmotivated
MINITHONS FOREVER.Tika at Reading the Bricks is hosting another minithon this Saturday. Minithons are for the lazy. Minithons are for the uncommitted. Minithons are for us.But honestly, reading for 24...
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The Queen of Attolia: "Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make...
Wtf is in that vial? Is that in the book?Our journey through the Megan Whalen Turner series continues! With The Queen of Attolia. I was assured by certain parties that this would be much better than...
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