YOU GUYS, HI. THIS BOOK WAS SO THIS BOOK. WHAT WORDS TO USE I DO NOT KNOW. MUCH FLOUNDERING. BOOK HAS CREATED NOOK FOR ITSELF IN BRAIN AND IMPRINTED DEMON SHADOW IN NEURAL CELLS FOREVER. CAUSES TO TYPE ALL CAPS OH NO. Okay, I’ll stop now. But seriously. THIS BOOK, THIS @(*&#$%* BOOK. I have been meaning to read The Stand for yearrrrs now, but I kept putting it off. Ever since I discovered about four to five years ago that Stephen King’s storytelling was […]
Only So Much YA Wish Fulfillment I Can Swallow
Red Queen has come highly recommended by many Cannonballers who I respect. And I hated it. There is only so much derivative wish-fulfillment blather I can wade through. Although you wouldn’t know that from the wish-fulfillment YA tear I seem to be on. Mare is a “red” – a person with red blood who lives in a dystopian society where the reds live in destitute servitude under the “silvers” who have silver blood and super cool superpowers and like, all the money. Which is the […]
We are waiting in the wings for you
This book was really, really weird. I’m still not sure whether I liked it. My regular gauge for whether or not I liked a book is if I’d read it again and I’m just not sure about this one. It was an intriguing story and did keep me guessing about where it was going. So there’s that. I also give it a lot of credit for just being really fucking weird. Let your freak flag fly, book. Let it fly. Like. For real. I’m not […]
Buckle. The Fuck. Up.
Like Tyrion Lannister, I used to be a cynic. I thought it possible there were not truly original ideas left in fiction. I used to think, after so many years of reading like it was my job, there weren’t any books left that would knock me on my ass, keep me awake until 4 a.m. when I had to work in the morning, cause me to be so engrossed that I literally did not hear my friends trying to get my attention. I thought I […]