This series is my new favorite thing. Patsy Walker/Hellcat is really funny and spunky and awesome. It ranks up there with my other favorite, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. You can read my full review here. P.S. The title is from this guy here: I actually think about this scene and the line delivery all the time.
“To describe how you feel after a girl explodes in your pre-calc class is a tad tricky…”
Spontaneous is about a senior class who suddenly falls victim to a series of explosions. The students suddenly burst apart, leaving behind blood and pieces. There’s no rhyme or reason to the explosions, but it only happens to the seniors who go to their school. It’s actually really funny. You can read my full review here. Save
So I looked up the word “grief” in the dictionary.
Yay for us for picking this book for book club! I’m amazed and delighted and impressed by this book. Confident in its Young Adult-ness, it then refuses to pull any punches. I learned so much, and am so glad that “youth” everywhere have this available to them. I think it’s fair to say that we all have an awareness on some level or another how much the Reservations system has failed the Native Americans and Native Canadians across this continent. How hard life is on […]
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
I couldn’t tell you the last time I read Murakami, but I now remember that the last time I read him, I swore I would read all of his work, and I’m making that oath again. He is magnificently imaginative, terrifying, mystical, and believable all at once. He throws you into the deep end and patiently waits for you to swim or drown; he doesn’t care which happens. He moves the finish line just as you’re about to reach it, over and over again. You […]
To suffer is as human as to breathe.
Any time that there’s new Harry Potter, I become about 15 years younger, and squeeeeeeeeeee. So, of course, new Potter, and I’m there. Full disclosure, I work in theater. Large-scale theater. Big shows. This show is in my work realm. So reading new Potter, but in script form, it was hard to turn off my work brain. “Is that a quickchange?” “need more details about that prop” “are they going to eat that, or can it be glue?” etc. These are the notes that I […]
The reward of true service, surely, is to be asked for more.
At long last, we reach the end of the “Temeraire” series. Hot dang, it’s been 9 books… where would our heroes travel? how would they encounter Napoleon? would Laurence have complicated feelings about women in the military? would Temeraire rake his giant claws into the ground in distress over something? where would they settle down for retirement? all these questions had to be answered, and more! It’s no secret that I’ve adored this series, even though it became deeply repetitive and predictable. And in a surprising […]
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