I read Mary Balogh’s Only Enchanting and Only a Promise fully intending to review them, but found that they mostly made me want to re-read The Proposal. I’m mostly reviewing The Proposal with some musings on Only Enchanting and Only a Promise thrown in. Mary Balogh writes a lot of romance series, and her characters all inhabit the same world and randomly pop up in unrelated books. It’s good in one way, because it’s nice to see favorite characters, even if it’s only a glimpse. […]
Dragons!
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series was one of the formative series of my life. In Junior High, I was in the advanced classes and was expected to read a lot of books I don’t remember. While on the bus going home one day, I saw one of my friends, who was in the regular English class, reading one of his assigned books. It was called Dragonsong. I was entranced and it was all I could do not to snatch it out of his hands. Fortunately, my […]
This Book is Not Duggar Approved
To wash the taint of the Duggars and their awful ideas about women, gender roles, sex and sexuality out of my mind, I re-read Kristen Cashore’s Graceling. Graceling is Cashore’s debut novel, and if you haven’t read it, you really must. It is vibrant and self assured with strong plotting and memorable characters. The central character, Katsa, is a girl who seeks control over her own body and mind. The Duggars and their ilk would hate it. Katsa’s world, The Seven Kingdoms, is similar to […]
Bro, what are you, bro?
Why wasn’t this Clint Barton in the Avengers movies? Seriously? This Clint Barton is awesome!!! Have I told you about how I have a thing for (fictional) bad boy, smartass, not fully on the right side of the law heros? Matt Fraction’s Clint Barton is exactly that. He doesn’t really consider himself one of the Avengers, and he’s no Captain America boyscout do-gooder, but he does do the right things. He does them with arrows and attitude. This run isn’t about Clint being Hawkeye the […]
Let the Wentworthing Begin
I have been wanting to check out Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series for a few years now. It checks my dragons and alternate history boxes of interest. While reading, I shared my enthusiasm for the first book of the series on Facebook. Malin shared that she hadn’t been as enchanted because the book focuses more on the military maneuverings than on the dragons. This is a legitimate complaint, but not one I had. I had immediately pictured our hero, Captain Lawrence, a naval captain reluctantly turned […]
Dark Days Ahead for Robo and Tesladyne
I’m going to confess something about which I am deeply embarrassed. It just occurred to me today that Dr. Dinosaur represents pseudo-science. I just…I don’t know. I was enjoying the silliness so much I missed the symbolism? Anywhodles, Dr. Dinosaur is pseudo-science. He uses sciency sounding words, makes shit up, becomes defensive when challenged, refuses to admit he’s wrong, and wreaks havoc trying to prove he is smarter than science. The Atomic Robo series is clearly influenced by the Saturday Matinee Serial movies of the […]
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