Lauren: Between the genres of comic books and novels I’m most drawn to reading, it’s sometimes shocking to remember that not all books are a part of a series with hundreds and hundreds of pages building on the work that came before. It can become overwhelming, which is when it becomes pertinent to my psyche […]
Read more "Book Club in Session: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman"Heather and I made the mistake of starting the Divergent series when only two of the three books in the trilogy had been released, so it’s safe to say anticipation to read how the trilogy would end was running high. What is surprising is that we actually fall in different places on the love it or […]
Read more "Book Club in Session: Allegiant by Veronica Roth"I thought I’d heard of everything when it came to nonhuman significant others. There are inflatable sex dolls, and one step up, Lars’ life-sized anatomically correct doll-turned-girlfriend in Lars and the Real Girl. And if you can’t buy a girlfriend, you can make one from scratch, much like the robo-wife in Robopocolypse. Yet, a girlfriend […]
Read more "Book Club in Session: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker"Orange is the New Black. It was the Netflix phenomenon that caught me by surprise this past year.
Read more "Book Review: Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman"When I was younger I remember being too scared to watch The Shining with my sister and mom thanks to that terrifying cover image of Nicholson bludgeoning his way through the door.
Read more "Book Review: The Shining by Stephen King"There are really 2 camps of people in life. Those who rip into Nicholas Sparks novels like a kid on Christmas morning, and those who literally cringe at the sight of his name.
Read more "Book Review: The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks"Remember how in 1875 the U.S. government traded 1000 white women to the Cheyenne Indian Tribe in exchange for 1000 horses to help the Cheyenne learn how to acclimate to the White man’s world? No? That’s because it didn’t happen. But what if it did?
Read more "Book Review: 1000 White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus"Looking for a great young adult series? Well keep looking, because you won’t find it with Delirium.
Read more "Book Series Review: Delirium by Lauren Oliver"The possibility of aliens or zombies wiping out humanity is a terrifying thought that has plagued my mind for as long as I can remember (I have a healthy imagination, though there are truth to the potential of each possibility in a form). Now thanks to In The After, I get to blend the two […]
Read more "Book Review: In the After by Demitria Lunetta"I can’t say that I quite understood the world of The Bone Season to an extent that would have made me proud of my brain’s ability to process and retain information, but at least my confusion was not detrimental enough to keep me from enjoying the world of this book on the whole.
Read more "Book Review: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon"
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