Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Let the record show that Ursula K. LeGuin is possibly my favorite science fiction author, certainly the one I most admire. I spazzed out on one of my writer friends the other day and insisted she read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas before I died of a heart attack.
So it is difficult to [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Cheaper by the Dozen is a true gem. Not the Steve Martin movie. That is a blasphemy. The book, well, the book is hillarious. Like, laugh-out-loud-on-the-bus hillarious.
It is the very funny and often moving story of how the dozen Gilbreth children were raised by their father Frank, a brilliant efficiency expert and utterly charming wiseacre, [...]
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
This is Maria Snyder’s first novel, and she certainly hasn’t offended me the way Scott Bakker did, so I’ll try to be gentle. It is, undisputedly, a first novel.
I loved the premise of this story, about a young woman sentenced to death who is offered the opportunity to become a food taster for the [...]
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Cheval Noir is a 50 issue comic book series put out in the late 80’s and early 90’s by Dark Horse. The concept was to make a series of edgy books by international artists, so that we Americans could see what the rest of the world liked to read.
Incidentally, the covers have nothing to [...]
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Okay, so this isn’t a review so much as a fan girl rave. Just thought I’d get that caveat out of the way now.
Coraline is a bored little girl who finds a door in her house that leads to …another house just like hers. Only it isn’t. At all.
In the other house, cats and dogs [...]
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Today I am breaking a whole month’s worth of tradition and reviewing a current movie instead of a past-published paperback. I wanted to review this movie because there’s been a whole lot of brou-ha-ha about it. Here are my thoughts, spoiler free.
When I saw the trailer for Cloverfield, I was immediately of two minds. Did [...]
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
I am a pretty big Stephen King fan. When I was a kid, I read every SK paperback the local library had, which means I’ve read nearly everything he’s written before Needful Things at least once. Don’t tell my mom. Anyway, a recent “book v. movie” review of The Mist at the Onion’s AV [...]
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
I read a lot of books. I don’t necessarily read the newest releases as soon as they come out. Rather, I rely on an esoteric process that combines how good the first page reads in the store, what I’ve heard about the book or author, and sheer whim. So the books I review [...]
