Malinda Lo’s Ash is a beautifully unique take on the Cinderella story. Aisling, our girl who likes to sit amongst the cinders, is not just the victim of an evil stepmother and uncaring stepsisters, but also of her crippling grief. The loss of her mother, in particular, haunts Ash so deeply that she wants to… Read More Ash, by Malinda Lo
After the Bitch magazine brouhaha last week, I did some thinking about the women in books that impacted me when I was growing up. Ninety percent of what I read featured female protagonists or prominent female supporting characters, and while I wouldn’t rush to call this a list of feminist books (since an outlet like… Read More Books With Girls Who Kick Ass
I wish I had grace; that my tongue dripped silver and spun sugar instead of jagged, cut glass. I wish my feet fell like autumn leaves on the breeze and not haphazard horseshoes in a lawn game. I am cumbersome, burdensome, too much and then some. I can’t be proper or perfect… just simply enough.
The NY City Council is voting to ban smoking in all city parks, marinas, boardwalks, AND Times Square. And I’m baffled. I’m not pulling out pom-poms to be like, “Smoking Yay!” and claim that it’s this wonderful thing folks should be allowed to do. Of course it’s bad for you. Duh. But it’s still legal.… Read More Smokin’ Aces
I gave it a few weeks before I came to an official verdict, and, now, I can say without any reservations that I love OLTL’s Vimal and Rama! Love. I want to draw little hearts around their names. I want to invite them over to my house for chai and samosas. I basically want to… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
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!
I think I’d rather go over my skin with a cheese grater than sit through another gratuitously exploitative rape storyline on daytime. It’d be less painful. This morning, before the DAYS rerun on SOAPnet, I rewatched the tail end of GH. After again experiencing the scenes where Michael initially revealed to Jason that he’d been… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
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