A Mystery…

If you don’t get that reference, it’s probably because you don’t own sixteen volumes of Fruits Basket.  Unlike me.  Because I’m lame.  And now, poor.
Miyuke Miyabe, Shadow Family
A middle-aged man and a young woman are murdered in different ways, at different locations, and several days apart, but physical evidence links the two crimes.  Police are [...]

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Girlbomb

Janice Erlbaum, Girlbomb
I feel like I’ve headed into an entirely different stage of my life, because a few years ago, I would have said that because I didn’t like this book, it must suck.  But now that I’m a little older, I understand that this book didn’t suck–it just wasn’t my thing.
I know.  Like you [...]

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Grotesque

Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque
Cut for spoilers for both this book and Out.

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Say Hello to My Little Friend

On days like these, I really miss my cat.
Actually, my parents have four cats, and I miss all of them, all of the time–but days like this particular day particularly make me miss Sophie.  Otherwise known as Sophia Louisa, grumpiest cat on the face of this planet.
Sophie is a bitch.
Today calls for a bitch. 
Because today, I [...]

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The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight
Cut because I like to kick small puppies and eat tiny kittens, but spoilers make me sad inside.

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WALL*E and Mark Twain

WALL*E
You know the drill:  adorable robots.  Lumbering fat humans (for a really good critique of that part of it, go here).  I don’t really feel like I have anything to add to this discussion beside the totes obvs.  Which is–PIXAR?  Quit trying to make me think that revolting, plague-bearing vermin are adorable.  You tried it [...]

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I Kissed a Girl

Boy howdy, this has been kind of a sucky week–sucky enough to make me say things like “boy howdy,” even.  I was fifteen minutes late to work on Monday because my bus got stopped on the toll road FOREVER, someone lost their balance on the Metro on the way home that night and clawed me [...]

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Save the Children!

Found a link to this, and thought it was interesting.  For those of you who don’t feel like reading it or who have placed The New Yorker in a timeout until it can learn the difference between satire and racism, the summary is thus:  Anne Carroll Moore was the Children’s Librarian for the New York [...]

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Stardust

Do not read this review if you care very deeply about being spoiled for Stardust as either a film or a book.  Now, ONWARD!

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Wyrd Sisters

Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
So far as I can tell, this is Pratchett’s first novel about the witches-Nanny Ogg, Granny Weatherwax, and Magrat Garlick. It was…pretty good. Just as he would later take on The Phantom of the Opera in Maskerade, in Wyrd Sisters Pratchett manages to reverse-engineer something very strongly resembling Macbeth.  The plot is [...]

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