Paaatty: Alright. Lemme just start this off by saying I cannot take a shark shifter seriously when I keep pronouncing his name in my head as “Cohen-rad”. Like he’s my surfer accountant. Which begs the question: can I take a shark shifter seriously otherwise? No. Kaaatie: I was pronouncing it Kohen-raahd. Why do authors insist on using these odd spellings? I don’t understand. Out of curiosity, I googled sexy shark images. There is some truly disturbing shit out there. Paaatty: WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? […]
Preteen angst, extra special snowflake edition.
I have been reading an awful lot of YA fiction lately – partly out of interest, and partly out of reading to my son. I figure I better read to him while he is willing to listen, and Santa brought him the Percy Jackson box set for Christmas. I have recently lost him at story time to his father and Harry Potter, and I confess I am tempted to read ahead and see where the book series goes. I can only be patient for so […]
Wow. That was long. Really long.
I started listening to this book five years ago. Five. 5. FIVE. YEARS. I took a multi-year break because I could not handle the misery of the chapters about Kvoth’s first year or so in Tarbean. And then I started listening again, because this should be both in my wheel house and up my alley. But the truth is, I just don’t know. I don’t know if I like it. I know I wish it were a lot shorter, which means I didn’t love it. […]
“Beauty is the truth revealed through our eyes, and nothing more.”
Guys. You guuuuuys. This is… I mean… the… *insert unintelligible noises*… awesome. The awesomeness that is contained in these pages. This book makes me want to grab a child and read it to them. This book is like The Princess Bride, both in awesomeness and in that it is a story being told to children. I suppose also in that there is a princess who does not begin as a princess. But like The Princess Bride, it is also a timeless tale that can be […]