When someone asks me about my hobbies, I usually start with the basics: drawing, reading, very amateur comedy…and it takes quite a bit of digging before someone I don’t know too well finds out I also follow developments in intellectual property law (mostly in the US.) It hardly qualifies as persecuted “nerd culture,” but disappointingly few people want to hear about the differences between copyrights, trademarks, and patents and why they shouldn’t be used interchangeably in conversation. (On the other hand, #cockygate has been more […]
Just your run of the mill novelization, with some deleted scenes.
The movie did it better. To be fair, the movie always does it better than the novelization. Novelizations are nearly to a one marketing ploys. But after having read the novelization for Rogue One, I am now spoiled for all future movie novelizations. That book was fantastic. It was a piece of art all on its own, and I nearly liked it better than the movie. This was not that. It was competent. Nothing was wrong. But most importantly, it didn’t really translate; the big […]
There is a cat in this book whose name is Donut.
Scalzi’s books are always such good palette cleansers. Head On was fast and fun (and a little bit infuriating). This is the second book in the Lock In series, which started with 2014’s Lock In. You don’t need to have read the first book if this one tickles your fancy, but you should, because it’s great. The premise here is that in the near future, a disease called Haden’s Syndrome (after the first lady of the US, it’s most famous victim) makes it so that […]
A fantastical coming of age tale in space
When we decided to read A Wrinkle in Time for our #CannonBookClub, I was ecstatic! Perfect motivation to re-read it before the Ava Du’Vernay’s film release. Before its release, there seemed to be some negative buzz that disheartened me. I felt like I was defending the movie and the book to an extent before it hit the theaters! In the end, I managed to complete my re-read the morning before seeing the film. The refresh with the original text rekindled my childlike curiosity and sense of […]