Previously on Supernatural…. Ishmael and Abraham’s baby mama are kicked to the desert curb because Sarah has ISSUES and God pranks Abraham with the old “sacrifice your son” gag then promises more descendants ruling over everything forever. This week… Patty: Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. Sarah finally bites it at the ripe old age of 127. Good riddance, I say. Abraham needs a place to bury his wife, so most of Ch 23 is all: Abraham: Let me pay you for the land to […]
Reading YA frequently makes me very happy I never have to revisit my teenage years
Lula and Rory are basically the “Weird Girl and What’s His Name” of the title. Odd-ball teenagers in the little town of Hawthorne, North Carolina. They are best friends, sharing an interest for fantasy and sci-f, but their deepest and most abiding love is for the TV show The X-Files, being active in the online fan community and writing a joint blog where they analyse and comment on the episodes. Both have been abandoned by parents. Rory lives alone with his alcoholic mother, while Lula […]
And So It Is
This is a weird little novel, and I’m not quite sure how it ended up on my Kindle. I mean I know how, obviously I bought it, but I don’t know why I decided to buy it. But boy am I glad that I did. It’s weird, and sweet, haunting and engrossing, and I think it’s going to be a book that you either love or hate. The prose is beautiful and the plot is intricate and well crafted. I highly recommend this one. The […]
A play about a hard topic to speak about.
I try to keep track of Pulitzer Prize winners, particularly in fiction and drama, because I like to have my pulse on what is winning awards and what I can teach in future classes. I saw that Lynn Nottage’s Sweat was this year’s drama winner and promptly went to my library. Of course, they don’t have it yet. So I decided the next-best thing would be to read her other Pulitzer Prize winner, Ruined. In short, Ruined is about what happens to women before, during, […]