ODY-C is based on Homer’s Odyssey in a world where Zeus has killed off most of the men. ODY-C is a genderbent interpretation that’s completely warped out of its own mind in a psychedelic sci-fi god-ruled outer space. I mean the whole thing is nuts. Crazy colors, and sexual innuendos all over the place; think women breaking down doors with giant phallos’ and vagina-like spaceships. But don’t let the colors fool you. This is not an explosion of a book, it’s a slow, heavy journey. […]
Late to the party. CBR7 Book Club
I remember seeing all the Station Eleven reviews popping up throughout CBR7 but for whatever reason I didn’t jump on the bandwagon until now. In lieu of a traditional review I’m going to answer a few of fantingviolet’s book club discussion questions. 1. Did you find the shifts between pre- and post-apocalypse to be an effective storytelling technique? How about changing character perspectives? I’ve gone on record saying that multiple character view points combined with too much time jumping can be irritating and I stand […]
Premise of US orphan history: awesome. Book: less awesome.
This was the first selection of the new year for my book club, chosen somewhat for length, something short to start off the year, and because there were book club questions in the back of the book. I have picked books to read for worse reasons, so away we went. Though fiction, this book is the fictionally telling of what to me was an unknown part of American history From 1854 to 1929, orphan children in New York were placed on trains by a group […]
Cannonball Book Club Reads Romance – Book Announcement!
The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev
Join us at 11:00 am EST for our discussion! Yes, it’s a kissing book. Welcome friends, to the announcement of our very first Cannonball Book Club Reads book. You’re excited aren’t you? I am. ::Ahem:: If you’ve looked up at the author/title listing you know who won, but let’s make it official: our Cannonball Book Club Reads Romance pick is The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev! I want to let you know that from the beginning this was a VERY tight race. Over 90 of […]
Book Club Reads: Romance – voting
We’re going to do Book Club again this year, and with a little more formality than last year’s when I just needed all of you to read Station Eleven RIGHT NOW and come talk to me about it. We’re starting with Romance, but other Book Club Reads will be Sci-fi, Young Adult, and Classics with film adaptations in June, September, and December respectively. I’ve decided to start with a genre that is comfortable for me. For those of you who consider yourself romance readers, hopefully there’s […]
Sort of My Kind of Girl?
Lena Dunham has inspired a lot of feelings for such a young woman. For whatever reason, people tend to feel pretty strongly either that she is the worst thing that has happened to her generation or that she’s a funny, brave young woman with some serious talent. However you feel about her or her show Girls or any of her other work, you can’t deny that she has something; if she didn’t, no one would give a shit one way or the other. Personally, I […]