I love comics; I’m heartily devoted to the MCU (and, to somewhat a lesser degree, the DCEU); I am all about the fanfic that springs up around all of my favorite mainstream comic characters, but I have a confession: I don’t actually usually enjoy reading comic books all that much. I don’t know what it is about the medium – I know I’m a text over pictures kinda gal, but I love so much of the art of comic books, that I don’t think that’s […]
I underlined so many things in this book. In pen. Pink pen.
So I feel a lot of ways about this book, which is basically the opposite of the premise of the book, but what are you going to do? To begin with, I think the authors’ stated premise of the book is both valiant and worthwhile: “to turn your bullshit wish into a goal that can actually be achieved.” That sounds good, right? Sounds… so much better than endlessly trying to figure out why a thing is happening, or how you can prevent bad things from […]
There are shades of grey, sure, but I don’t think this is one of them
I kept putting off these reviews because I wanted to get more in-depth about an issue that kept popping up in them – around consent and authors drawing lines in the sand that they then continuously cross over – but my brain cannot manage to do those thoughts any more justice than what I’ve got here, so I’m just going to go with it at this point. This review is technically about three books, a set I grabbed for free off of Amazon a couple […]
Can we BBorS another hero? Please?
I had some issues with this next book. And when I say “some issues”, I really mean, I just did not like the ‘hero’ of the book, at all, in any way, and the way the author set up the book, I’m not sure she actually wanted us to? At the end of it all, I wrote in my notes “I’m so mad because this COULD be a good book. The writer is very good. The feminism is not.” And, look: I acknowledge that not […]