This is probably the novel people should teach instead of To Kill a Mockingbird. I think To Kill a Mockingbird is fine, but it’s not beloved for me. And I think this novel has a more meaningful and interesting take on the weirdness and outsiderness of race and childhood in the South than To Kill a Mockingbird. This story takes place in the time leading up to a wedding. Frankie, a young white girl, and her companion and caretaker Berenice keeping each other company as the world around […]
I don’t know if you remember this…
but there was a small panic culturally in the early 90s when someone put like John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart in a commercial. I think it was Humphrey Bogart selling Diet Coke or something like that. There was a strong feeling that this would lead to old stars being in EVERYTHING and who knows what would happen then! Nothing would. Sure there were a few strange blips here and there where someone would pop up somewhere, but now we have Princess Leia and Tarkin showing […]
Turds also go into the water
This book is pretty bad, ya’ll. Like not very good at all. It suffers from a lot of issues. One, the world created within it is so poorly rendered it seems but overwhelming and fake. So there’s pretty much nothing in this book that has anything connecting it to the wider world. It’s all PLOT PLOT PLOT PLOT and nothing else, which CAN be fine but just doesn’t work here because she TRYING so hard to make this richer and real. There’s a historical context […]
Not the Eddie Murphy one
This is not based on the weird ass Eddie Murphy movie from the mid 80s with that weird haunted sword or pipe or whatever it was. Instead this is a kind of mystery, kind of comedy of manners taking place in a Natural History museum the night before a huge new opening. In this novel, several key figures circulate around the opening of a new exhibit that will introduce the world to the collected findings about an ancient civilization: Garamantia. It has old burial vessels, […]
Button Button
I am not sure what if any real impression this book made on me. The second story was kind of a throw-away one altogether, but I thought the main story was a perfectly interesting and adequate one. When I was a teenager, I was fat. And as an adult, I was too for a long time. Just like maybe I do now with money-issues, even though I get by, I would spend a lot of time thinking about what would happen if all my weight-issues […]
Saga Vol 7, but also all the rest in spirit
I can’t tell you what Saga is about. I wonder if anyone can really sum it up in a few sentences to catch everyone up. I couldn’t imagine trying to watch this as a tv show because of this weird kind of disjointedness. One of the effects of having fifty different stories being told simultaneously and from multiple times in the future is the kind of fracturedness we get in this series. Because of this nature and the nature of its subject matter, the confluence of about […]
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