I’m a bit hesitant on picking up a book made from a blog. It’s just the content of some blogs don’t really lend themselves that well to physical media. And that’s where most of my problem with this book comes in. When I’m on the internet, I am totally down to read listicles because I’m usually looking for quick bites of information as a sort of short break from something. If something in the list interests me, I have the whole internet at my fingertips […]
I Hope Those are the Kinds of Lasers that Slice People in Half
I was very hesitant to pick up another Stephenson book. I read Diamond Age and was underwhelmed. And, my copy of Snow Crash came with a cover blurb comparing the story to Neuromancer, which was a book that almost made me feel physical pain trying to read through it. So I didn’t have high hopes for Snow Crash, but I wanted to cross another title off the of NPR’s 100 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy list. Little did I know that snow Crash would become […]
Where Were These Fairy Tales When I Was Growing Up?
Another gift from my Barnes and Nobles book soulmates. I don’t know how I lived without this book. I started reading it while killing time after work one day and then suddenly it was 3am and I was crying and I knew something amazing had happened to me. Agnieska has lived in the valley all her life. She, and everyone else that lives int he valley, owes their existence to the Dragon that lives in the tower and keeps the evil and corrupt Woods at […]
Bruised Violet, You Got This Squid Thing That Follows Me Around
You all went out and bought Volume 1 of Rat Queens after my last review, right? (Or, if you are narfna, you demanded that your library supply you with it, because who really stocks a library with only volume 2 of something?!) I’m going to pretend that you all did, because I want to believe you are wonderful people that love nice things and it would break my heart to find out you were apathetic about my Rat Queens. If it’s possible, this volume managed […]