The Surface Breaks: A Reimagining of The Little Mermaid is a wonderful feminist take on the popular fairy tale. Louise O’Neill stays very close to Hans Christian Anderson’s original classic story (as opposed to the Disney version), but gives her little mermaid (Gaia/Muirgen) a much darker back story and provides a fuller description of the world that exists under the sea. Little mermaid Gaia has grown up under a misogynistic patriarchal system, where women are valued for their beauty alone. Gaia and her five sisters […]
Questing, for old folks
Grammar is very important. Without that comma, my title is about looking for senior citizens. With it, those selfsame senior can go on an adventure. And what a wonderful adventure! Unfortunately for all of us, I have forgotten the names of the characters involved but that’s okay. Looking back on my old reviews, I rarely really include character names anyway! This book is set in roughly Arthurian England, there’s even mention of one of his knights. The Buried Giant is also stylistically similar to so much […]
You can’t go home again
I still remember watching E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in the theater as a kid. The nearest movie theater was an hour’s drive from our little town in the Deep Midwest, so we didn’t get to go more than a few times a year. I’d been begging my parents to take us to see E.T. for weeks when they finally surprised me for my 8th birthday. I was enchanted from the start, so wrapped up in the story by the time Eliot said goodbye to E.T. that […]
Fortune Favors the Brave, Though Statistics Favor the Cautious
The Palace Job has been recommended by a friend a couple of times, and I happened to catch lowercasecee’s review just before I started reading it. It is like a magical Ocean’s Eleven, but lighter on the testosterone and heavier on the diversity. It’s a great heist novel with daring escapes, a bringing together of the crew, setbacks and secret identities. My non-Cannonballing friend sold it to me as the start of an adventurous series with great characters and engaging writing. One book in and […]
A Little Too Classic but Still Fun
I finished Super Powereds Year Four a while ago, but I’m only just now getting to reviewing it. I think part of that was life, but more I think it was that I needed to get over the somewhat cliché ending in which everyone good has paired off and leads the lives they probably always wanted (mostly). I’m glad the surviving good guys and gals got happy endings, but everyone living their exact dreams with the person they were obviously meant to be with since […]
Mismemory or Starting from the Wrong Place
I remember this event from about 5 years ago where participants engaged in a favorite author quote off. Basically, everyone presented a quote by their favorite author, and the audience voted on the best. Whoever got the fewest votes each round was eliminated. The final round ended up with an English professor show specialized in Renaissance drama using Shakespeare vs one of his colleagues’ tween son using R.A. Salvatore. It was hilarious even though the eventual split decision of Shakespeare as the winner seemed a […]
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