The Virtu

Sarah Monette, The Virtu
 
The second book about Melusine.  Check it—spoilers!

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Happy White Trash Thanksgiving

I’m going to be at my parents’ house for Thanksgiving, which means that the Internet is…primitive, and chances for posting will be minimal.  Ergo, I’m reposting the entry I made last year, back when I was still a vegetarian and savaged Tofurkey while the rest of my family savaged the real thing. Enjoy!
For those of [...]

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Skin Hunger

Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger
 
I bought this because I’d seen a lot of fangirling and squee about it from numerous sources; I wouldn’t say that I regret that decision, but for me, this was a thoroughly decent book.  It wasn’t bad by any stretch of the imagination, but I do not really understand going into convulsions [...]

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At Long Last…Twilight

Twilight
 
In brief:  a movie based upon the first novel in Stephenie Meyer’s inexplicably popular vampire series.  Bella Swann, our heroine, moves from Phoenix to Washington State because her mom has just married a minor-league baseball player and wants to go gallivanting with him.  Bella, ever the martyr, selflessly allows her mother to go on the road [...]

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Things That Annoy Me, Part the Millionth

So I was reading this blog, and I was really getting into it because it was smart and funny and—as the kids like to say—“hip,” and then I hit a wee bit of a snag.  See, the authoress in question was talking about some issue, and she brought up the “I’m not a feminist, but” [...]

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Eat Me

Simon Holt, The Devouring
The older I get, the more of a wuss I become.  I’ve never liked horror movies, since my parents were BAD PARENTS and let me “accidentally” catch scenes from Aliens when I was three.  Gee, thanks DAD.  But despite my life-long aversion to horror movies, as a teenager I could chomp down [...]

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Juno

Kids, if you don’t know what Juno is, then clearly you did nothing but sleepwalk through early 2008.  So I ain’t gonna summarize, I’m just gonna react.  And my laziness in this matter has NOTHING TO DO with the fact that I’m so tired I can’t quite see straight.  NOTHING.
Juno

 I didn’t find the dialogue as [...]

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The Fuzzy Face of Death

She’s waaaaatching you…
And, let’s face it, thinking about the next bird she’s going to disembowel.  That’s my girl!
Anyway, yeah.  I’m an insomniac whose prescription sleepaid has failed, and there’s all kinds of other crazy things going on that prevent me from telling you about Sarah Monette’s gay wizard and his incestuous love for his half-brother.  [...]

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The Georgia Nichols Series

I feel obligated to tell you that I went to work today with a giant hickey on my neck, quite flagrantly uncovered.  And also that my hair is kind of greasy and keeps falling out its ponytail, I am still covered in paint from painting my boyfriend’s basement yesterday afternoon, and my pants are all [...]

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About My Last Name

As y’all probably know, “Mankiller” is not my real last name.  Although if it were, wouldn’t that be fucking awesome?  Like, “Hello, you have reached the Mankiller residence.  We aren’t home right now, but leave your name and number and we’ll be sure to OH GOD MY EYE!”
 
Made.  Of.  Win.
 
But no, not my real last [...]

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