*Spoilers follow* I saw the movie How to Train Your Dragon in the theatre, and absolutely fell in love with it. I loved the world, thought the characters were fun and relatable, and was absolutely blown away by the art, but the stand-out for me was the dragon Toothless. But I loved everything. I thought the tumultuous relationship between Hiccup and his father felt authentic, if a little on the absurd side (this is a cartoon, after all), and Hiccup’s role as an outsider felt […]
Google Meets Manutius
I read this book on an e-reader. Specifically, the library app on my iPad. I feel like there should be some sort of subsection of academia out there that focuses on interactions such as this, meldings of the old world with the new, if there isn’t already (I’m almost positive there is, but I don’t know what one would call that; media studies? But it feels like it should be so much more…). That thought kept striking me as I read this book, which tries, […]
Bored. I’m so bored.
This book was just so boring. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing particularly right about it either. If you’re looking for a completely generic historical romance, look no further. Lucy Merryweather is an American heiress on her own in London. She has not run away, but traveled to visit her ex-fiance and has decided to stay and have some fun. Along with the money she inherited from her great aunt, she also inherited a diary that lists all of the aunt’s regrets in life. Lucy […]
Magic all around.
4, 224 pages. 3 years, 3 months. And we’re done. If you’ve read my last Harry Potter review, you know that I’ve been reading the series aloud to my daughter. I decided when she was born to wait to read them until she was 8, and then we’d read them together. We started them the summer after she turned 8. We finished last night. She’s 11. Today was her first day of middle school. It would be absolutely impossible to write a review that would […]
If we took a holiday Took some time to celebrate Just one day out of life It would be, it would be so nice
This novel was author Muriel Spark’s favorite of her own works. It is short — a mere 107 pages — but suspenseful, dark and twisted. The NYT called it a “spiny and treacherous masterpiece.” What makes it all the more horrifying is that the reader knows from the beginning what is going to happen. Lise, the young woman going on holiday, is going to be murdered. We know how it happens but we don’t know who does it or exactly how Lise gets herself into […]
#2 for Jennifer Knight’s paranormal investigations
Disclaimer: I’ve been sick with a double ear infection (in the same ear – don’t ask) for the past five days, so hopefully this all makes sense! Ok, so like I said with my review for Book 1 of this series, Jennifer Knight is a British detective, but she can also communicate with / get feelings from paranormal sources. This is normally not my jam, but the way it’s incorporated into the story is so seamless (for me) that it doesn’t jar me out of […]