Iron and Velvet is October’s Vaginal Fantasy pick, I blew threw it this weekend as I’ve been feeling guilty about not reading the last couple of picks. Anxiety is a hell of a thing you guys, it doesn’t make sense, but there it is. Anyway, even though I finished it on Saturday there isn’t a whole lot of the book that’s sticking with me, it’s evaporated into the ether of mediocre books. The book isn’t terrible taken all together, though if it hadn’t improved half-way through […]
For You Have Left the World Better than You Found it.
Ok let’s do this. After avoiding the end for as long as I could, I finally read the last book by my favorite author of all time, Terry Pratchett. Terry is a good guy to have as a favorite. His books are witty and charming, full of reappearing characters and, unlike some fantasy writers (I’m looking at you GRRM), appearing at regular intervals. Now he is gone. Taken too soon by the thief of time, Alzheimer’s Disease. The Shepherd’s Crown was released way back in […]
Back in Black
I must confess that this a re-read of this book, but I honestly couldn’t remember much about the plot. Terry Pratchett is my comfort food. I can reread his books over and over and still be entertained and gain deeper understanding of the author and the characters he has created. I have been reluctant to read the final book in this series as it is final book by the author who died last year from Alzheimer’s Disease. So I procrastinated by re-reading I Shall Wear […]
An Interesting Origin Story. How……….original.
Kamala Khan is having the typical high school experience of a first generation child of immigrants. At least the one that I have seen represented through My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Aziz Ansari in Master of None. As a grand daughter of immigrants, I got to experience the food and the holiday traditions, but otherwise had the typical middle American and middle class childhood. However, I strongly identified with the experiences of the characters in this book. I don’t usually like to relive high […]
A Scalzi short- and it’s free!
This has been on my Audible recommendations list for what seems like months. I would’ve checked it out at some point – because John Scalzi – even if it wasn’t being offered as a free download, but that it was necessitated immediate consumption. I can only imagine this was based on a random idea he had in the shower, or driving to the grocery store, and he decided to hammer out a quick 25,000 words (or whatever) before getting back to whatever his next novel […]
Well, it’s going to be a great play!
This is a tough one…I loved the Harry Potter books but this isn’t technically an 8th book, because we all know Rowling said she was done with the books. So she came up with a new story for a theater production and the screenplay was printed in book format. So first, let’s sort out who actually wrote what. From what I can surmise, the story is a collaborative work by Rowling, Thorne, and Tiffany. But the screenplay itself was written by Jack Thorne. So what […]