Apr 29
Lest the last post be too disparaging about fairy tale ladies in iffy marriage situations, let me bring a seriously rad lady to your attention: SHAHRAZAD, heroine of The Arabian Nights So here’s the deal with The Arabian Nights: it’s one large frame story with several smaller frame stories grouped inside of it. Tales within tales within …
Feb 26
SPOILER ALERT: I do talk about some events that happen during this book. I don’t give away everything, but if you want untouched, pristine snow of new reading, then go buy the book. And stop reading reviews, you silly. Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes explores the paths of two …
Feb 19
*Spoiler alert: I do talk about things that happen in this book. That being said, I think that it doesn’t matter if you know what happens or not; you’ll still want to pick up the book and flip through it. Ray Fawkes’ One Soul is like nothing else I’ve read. Really. People have tried parallel …
Aug 14
Who loves dystopias? Me, clearly, because I wrote one, but still. A good dystopia story is totally cathartic, the ultimate act of schadenfreude. Holy crap. Too many big words. To review: Dystopia: a “negative utopia,” i.e. a supposedly perfect world gone horribly wrooooong. Schadenfreude: A German word meaning “happiness at the misfortune of others.” …Anyway, …
Mar 21
I am about to let you in on secret, sacred knowledge. First, a disclaimer: I am not much of a consumer. I tend to be predictable and somewhat pretentious in how I spend my disposable income. Mostly I spend my extra money on exciting food. I come from a long lineage of foodies, and am …
Feb 10
Ever since I was fifteen years old and stumbled across Sluggy Freelance, I’ve been secretly in love with webomics. In high school, webcomics and I went at it like rabbits. I’d read ten or fifteen daily, mostly on sites like Keenspot. I mellowed out in college a bit, mostly because I picked up the habit …
Feb 03
I picked up a book at the library the other day: A Season In Hell, by Arthur Rimbaud. I know little if nothing about Rimbaud. To be perfectly honest, I picked it up because of a line from a Gregory Corso poem (Marriage): What a husband I’d make! Yes, I should get married! So much …