Well, this was just about the harshest “romance” I’ve ever read. “One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings was darkened by the sense of time flying, never enough time, never enough.” I’ve never seen the movie version of Brokeback Mountain, although I’m familiar with the story. I never got around to seeing it before Heath Ledger’s death, and since he passed away, I can’t watch anything of his without feeling slightly weepy (10 Things I Hate About You does it the worst — […]
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
While I’m familiar with Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange from general pop culture absorption, as well as a film class in college where we watched a few scenes, I’ve never actually watched it. I’ve heard that the author of the novel, Anthony Burgess, hated Kubrick’s film version (and also hated that this book is pretty much what people know him for, despite his many works). So I was excited when my Secret Santa this year got me a copy (thanks narfna!) — I wanted to see what all the fuss was […]
Cheesy in a good way
I feel like I shouldn’t have liked this book — the writing was mediocre, the plot a bit contrived — but something about it was charming enough that I stayed hooked until the end. “Change works both ways. You must accept those moments, experience them, and let them go. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck in that minute, nothing will ever change.” Billie Breslin used to love to cook, but something in her past (which you will figure out very quickly but won’t […]
Robin Cook is an old white dude — how did I never realize this??
My very best friend in the whole world & I bonded over books the first semester of sixth grade. I introduced her to Stephen King and Dean Koontz, and she introduced me to the medical thriller genre — Michael Crichton, Michael Palmer, and of course, Robin Cook (we also read a lot of Lillian Jackson Braun. we were–are–huge dorks). I can still picture the covers of Cook’s books clearly: Vector, Fever, Outbreak, Coma, and our favorite, Mutation (which Cat dropped in the pool so it swelled to three times […]