Aside from the five stars, I also gave it four Tracey Jordans on the Hard to Watch/Read scale. Don’t get my wrong, it’s an absolutely beautiful book, but it’s also moving and powerful. Lots of emotions in this one. Satrapi chronicles her life as a teen in Iran during the unrest in the 1980’s. The cutesy, childlike drawings are juxtaposed against the atrocities they depict. For example, one panel is a short bio of one of her parents’ friends, newly released from jail for being […]
Reefer Madness
I’m not buying that “Anonymous” crap. Sparks claimed that this was a journal of one of her patients, a teen addicted to drugs that ruined her life. Sparks has this amazing luck with finding kids with hot button issues that also loved journaling AND letting their therapist have all their old diaries. These teens also were really focused in their writing, only covering said moral panic issues and not the usual crap that all of us other teens wrote about. The irony is that Sparks wrote […]
Let Your Freak Flag Fly
I had high hopes to finish this review yesterday, but I had one of my “bad days”, which is fitting in a totally weird, Bloggess way. My bad days are the days where my depression and anxiety win and my emotions take a fun ride to Overwhelming Sadness Valley, Rage Inducing Irritability Town and Petrified by Intrusive Thoughts Commonwealth. I am cursed with dysthymia, which is a.) a genus of moth, b.) a form of chronic depression (but ONLY MILD depression, if you are judgy Google) and […]
Welcome to Godhood, Hopefully You’ll Have Some Style
When I first picked up the Mistborn series, I didn’t know I was signing up for the Brandon Sanderson pyramid scheme subscription plan. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing, because I do love his writing, but his ouevre is extensive and, as far as I know, I am mortal and will someday not even finish a tenth of the books in my library. The Hero of Ages does tie up Vin and Elend’s side of the story (I believe, things were left a […]
The Star Wars, Like The Facebook and The Netflix
In some parallel dimension, there’s a world that was cursed with this, George Lucas’s original screenplay for Star Wars. And as much as the prequels sucked in this dimension, this pulpy SciFi Star Wars may actually be worse. It’s hard to look at this book objectively, either. There are ghosts of the iconic Star Wars that we all know (and love!). The “you’ll be dead” dialogue from the Tatooine cantina is almost verbatim the same, but the characters and circumstances are different. Ever get a […]
No More Will My Green Sea Go Turn a Deeper Blue
I’m very curious, but not ghoulish enough to dig, but I speculate that Janet Fitch was either raised by a narcissist or married one or something. Between this one and White Oleander, she sure does know a lot about people lacking empathy. Also like White Oleander, this one is isn’t a feel-good book by any means. Josie Tyrell escaped her white trash family and small town life to be the Edie Sedgwick of the 80’s punk scene in Los Angeles. Her bohemian lifestyle lead her […]
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