Bitch Magazine recently named their list of 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader. After a few dissenting comments and e-mails (the ol’ “the lurkers support me in e-mail!” argument), they yanked three books off the list for being inappropriate and triggering: Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan, Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce, and Living… Read More Must be the season of the Bitch!
Eloisa James’ brand-new release When Beauty Tamed the Beauty managed to effortlessly tame this reader! A delightful story with vivid, genuinely funny characters, When Beauty Tamed the Beast combines elements of the classic fairy tale with the more modern story of House M.D.‘s cantankerous doc, Gregory House. Linnet Thrynne is the kind of beautiful woman that… Read More Perfect Romance Review: When Beauty Tamed the Beast, by Eloisa James
“One more chapter,” I told myself, as the numbers on my bedside digital clock blurred from 8 to 9 to 10. Before I knew it, I was straight through to the end of When the Stars Go Blue, by Caridad Ferrer and it was after 11 o’clock. Ferrer’s 2006 release Adios To My Old Life… Read More When the Stars Go Blue, by Caridad Ferrer
“Jill tried not to think about Katherine, but it was impossible. The picture of Katherine striding into the hospital and claiming her child pushed aside everything else.” Thus begins the back cover blurb of Private Yearnings, a book I picked up at a thrift store. Written in 1986 by Angelica Aimes, it’s the fifth in… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
I’m really bad at keeping track of what I want to read, and I always wind up wandering aimlessly around bookstores, going, “What was I looking for again?” So, here’s an effort to combat that malady right out of the gate this year. When the Stars Go Blue, by Caridad Ferrer (en route to me;… Read More The TBR pile (so far!) for 2011
As 2010 wrapped up, I pulled Usher’s Passing, by Robert R. McCammon, off my bookshelf. I’ve probably read it a hundred times over the years, and I never stop being scared by it. At this point, I know every twist, every turn, every scene designed to make you shudder or jump…and, yet, I hide under my bedcovers,… Read More Ushering in the new year
How is it nearly 2011?! These past 12 months just seemed to fly by! Now, with year’s end upon us, it’s time for a Best and Worst post. (Here’s last year’s entry for reference.) As usual, this hinges only on things I actually experienced. Any oversights are accidental, and this is just meant to be… Read More The 2010 Wrap-Up: Best, Worst, and WTH!
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