After the Andrew Marin debacle, I was ready to read something a little more…affirming and unconditional, shall we say. I’ve been convinced for the last several years that same-sex marriage is not something that is automatically going to keep people out of heaven. The Bible verses that people have used to “proof-text” against same-sex marriage are often passing references that stand out of context from a chapter in the Bible about something else entirely. My spouse recommended Matthew Vines’ God and the Gay Christian, and […]
A disappointing and sneakily non-affirming book
Disclaimer: I wrote this review last month. I had no idea that the world would turn on itself on June 11, 2016. I still have no words. But after reading about the massacre of 49 individuals–most of whom were LGBT people of color–it’s so clear to me that there is still a lot of hate that bred the kind of culture that would allow this massacre to happen. I hope and pray that the sneaky and overt homophobia that has characterized the Christian Church for […]
I have no clue what I read. I mean, for real.
Okay, people, I’m now officially 21 reviews behind. The unholy combination of a new summer teaching gig, reading-but-not-reviewing, and currently being on vacation at my parents’ house has sort of let the reviewing fall away. But my mom is working tonight, and everyone else is sort of doing their own thing. Let’s do this. I’m starting with a review I drafted, oh, I don’t know, a month ago (confirmed by Goodreads that I did indeed read this 5 weeks ago). My sister is an avid […]
A story that revolves around apples and trees. No, really.
The film adaptation of Girl with a Pearl Earring was released my freshman year in college (I think January of 2004), and for one of my Much Ado about English (the intro course to my major) projects, I wrote a comparison of the film with the book (spoiler: the book is so much better). Thus began my craze for Tracy Chevalier novels. My favorite to this day is Falling Angels, though I also very much like Remarkable Creatures, The Lady and the Unicorn, and Girl […]
More dragons, please.
Hey, guys. I’m only a few reviews behind. Ahem. Maybe, I’m like 8-9 behind. I’m also trying frantically to finish The Doomsday Book, so I’m going to be succinct, so I can finish. I’ve also got an enormous library stack and NOT ENOUGH TIME TO READ. You know, first world problems. Last summer, while vacationing at my parents’ house, I read a big pile of library books (because there is NO WAY I am going without reading on vacation), including Marie Brennan’s Lady Trent Memoirs. […]
Pride and Prejudice for 2016
I’m a huge Jane Austen nerd, as most all of you know by now. I’ve read all of Austen’s novels and reviewed several of them for CBR. Two years ago, for CBR6, I embarked upon a Pride and Prejudice project, in which I reviewed several remakes or updates, including Longbourn, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Death Comes to Pemberley, and my second-favorite novelist of manners, Barbara Pym. This year, ElCicco reviewed Eligible while I was waiting impatiently for the library to discover the hold they had misplaced […]
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