I finally picked up Seth Grahame-Smith’s oft-talked about Jane Austen pastiche Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, because I need some airplane reading. And it really makes me wonder what is the big obsession with Jane Austen right now? In the last several years, we’ve had movies like Becoming Jane and The Jane Austen Book Club. Now there are… Read More Braaaaaains…and Jane Austen
I’ve always been fascinated by stories of everyday characters getting pulled into extraordinary worlds — be it Alice and her jaunt to Wonderland, the children of Peter Pan ending up in Never Never Land, Bastian reading The Neverending Story or Cornelia Funke’s characters whispering the pages of Inkheart to life. I love to read and… Read More …and straight on till morning
The words “An M/M Romance” underscore the title on the cover of Alex Beecroft’s False Colors, which features two handsome men in naval uniforms standing on the deck of a ship. A white sail is rolled up behind them, rigging crisscrossed like a spider’s web. To use an appropriate metaphor, the cover is a glancing shot… Read More False Colors, by Alex Beecroft
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, so here’s a list of some of my favorite love stories! (Yes, I count The Doctor and Rose as a love story, albeit not necessarily in the traditional sense.) Books, Plays, etc. Little John and Cecily, Outlaws of Sherwood, by Robin McKinley Vicky and Adam, A Ring of… Read More Caught in a good romance
I’m sure there were a lot of idealists who thought that electing Barack Obama as the U.S. President in November of ’08 kick-started a new era for America: a “post-racial” nation, where our racial and cultural inequalities were suddenly of no consequence. Look at us, a nation of good “libruls”; we’ve got a biracial commander-in-chief,… Read More Whitewashing and racefail: The beef goes on!
Sara Lindsey’s debut Promise Me Tonight doesn’t quite live up to its initial promise. Lindsey has a crisp writing style, and a lot of wit that lends to several laugh-out-loud moments throughout the course of the book. But laughter gives way to teeth grinding when it comes to her hero and heroine, James Sheffield and Isabella… Read More Promise Me Tonight, by Sara Lindsey
This is kind of ironic, given that I posted a few months ago about Candace Sams and the nature of criticism, but I’m starting to feel pangs of guilt for writing about books. For my day job, I get paid to offer my thoughts on daytime television, and there’s a certain amount of distance in… Read More My moral qualms, let me show you them
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