I heart Mindy Kaling. I liked her on The Office, but my sister finally forced me to watch The Mindy Project a couple months ago and I was instantly hooked. Since then I’ve been watching episodes on Hulu as if they were expensive, bad-for-me treats which I must enjoy only ONE AT A TIME OR TWO, TOPS, because someday I will run out and I’ll have to wait months until I’m allowed to buy them again/the next season comes out. I also pestered my sister until she let me […]
I CAN relate to teenagers via YA fiction!
I’ve been struggling with how to review the Divergent series for months now. I’m having trouble because I honestly can’t figure out how I really feel about them: there are parts I really appreciate, like that our hero Tris possesses an active sexuality that only freaks her out a little, and she pursues a dude that she likes (Divergent). Some parts were incredibly tedious to me, like our hero Tris’ many stupid fights with her dumb boyfriend, I DON’T CARE, GOD, BOTH OF YOU SHUT […]
In which I argue with myself over the feminism of Stieg Larsson, send help
I read the first third of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (the last in the trilogy) directly off the heels of the first and second books a couple years ago, but then lost interest. I started the final book over for CBR 6, but I was still a little worried that I’d forgotten too much of the story (or the sometimes-very-Swedishly-named characters) to jump right back in. The only thing I’d really forgotten was that Stieg Larsson was the king of brief recaps—so many of […]
This Author’s Note is the Twistiest of Twist Endings, Mind Blown
I finished this book this morning, got to the end and thought, sure, I’ll read the author’s note, and therein I found out that this story–about life and death and poverty and corruption and justice and injustice and good luck and bad luck in a Mumbai slum–is totally, COMPLETELY TRUE. It blew my mind, you guys, because it reads like fiction: the characters are so well-documented in their thoughts and dreams (and sometimes even in the listed cause of death in official records and police […]