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30 in 30: Day 26 (please don’t do this, future authors)
OMG WTF? OR most irritating/awful/annoying book ending The Epilogue, Harry Potter. JK Rowling said (somewhere; I don’t have a quote) she wrote the epilogue before she wrote the rest of the series. It shows. The ending of the book was really satisfying. And then you read “Nineteen years later…” and your entire evening is ruined.…
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Friday Five, August 12th: Books I Think You Should Pick Up (And Read, Obviously).
Bitters, by Kaimana Wolff. “Weeks after Victoria and Elan disappear on a romantic elopement, officers find a small plane at the bottom of Bitterroot Lake—with Victoria in it and no sign of Elan except remnants of the plane’s avionics in a burned-out campfire. Ray Walker, the youngest deputy sheriff in his town’s history, cannot let…
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30 in 30: Day 25 (you seriously don’t want to know how big my “to read” list is)
Any five books from your “to be read” stack Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination, by Dr. Christopher Hart The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations, and Rituals, by Patricia Monaghan Bodhisattva of Compassion, by John Blofeld A Lion Among Men, by Gregory Maguire The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals,…
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30 in 30: Day 24 (A quote? how the hells am I supposed to choose just ONE?)
Best quote from a novel Oh my goddess, we have so many contenders for this post. I simply can’t list just one, unless I wanted to be funny. Contrary to my usual nature, I wish to share quotes that actually mean something to me. So, from the very talented Jacqueline Carey and her quite astounding…
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30 in 30: Day 23 (walruses are dicks, man)
Most annoying character ever Not so much annoying as frustrating — Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter’s uncle. Every book he’s coming up with new and exciting ways to torture Harry, and he stokes the ire of every kid who’s ever been brushed aside so casually by an adult. (So, every kid, pretty much.) He was meant…
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30 in 30: Day 22 (the embers of romance start young)
Favorite non-sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships) Lina Mayfleet/Doon Harrow, The City of Ember (and its sequels, presumably, though I’ve yet to read them). (Mild spoilers.) Obviously the relationship is non-sexual; Lina and Doon are only 12 or 13 (can’t recall exact ages), so having their relationship involve sex would be…creepy, honestly. And completely unnecessary…
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Why words like “overweight” bother me.
If you’ve been paying attention the past several years, you’ll know we have an “obesity epidemic” on our hands. Well, that’s what they like to call it. I don’t, because it makes it seem like we fat people are the disease. The way we get treated by most people, you’d think we were. I don’t…