I’m not going to extract from my review here because I don’t know if any of my paragraphs can stand alone. But I will say this. You know that trope of sticking women in fridges so the male characters can feel man pain? This is one very long, poorly translated slog of fridge after fridge after fridge. Read the rest (?) at Pop Culture Penalty Box!
Don’t Tell Me To Smile
My goodness. What do I even say about this that hasn’t been said already? Bitch Planet is a prison planet for women who are “Non Complaint.” They are too fat, too mouthy, too ambiguously scary, too….too. For all their failings in the eyes of this toxic patriarchy (is there another kind?), they are sent to prison. But it’s not like the expectation to be compliant ends with getting put in prison. It just morphs, changes shape. Instead of the daily grind of microaggressions and 1960’s-style […]
Generic Rich White Guy Saves The Day Again!
It feels like an Onion article: Local Woman Praised for Not Reading Paper; Knowing Nothing of World. But also like William/Ryan shouldn’t be famous. If Paris Hilton weren’t, you know, famous (or whatever) on her own, would you have any idea who the owner of Hilton Hotels’ kids were? Can you pick the children of the heads of Viacom, General Electric, or Monsanto out of a line up? I can’t! Wait. Am I the lead in a romantic novel? When I go out to […]
Out of Bounds
Outlander is one of those books I picked up about a dozen times in various bookstores and then put down without actually buying it. It has a lot of elements I go for–WWII! Britain! Conspicuously well-groomed and progressive men-of-the-past! Time travel!–but for whatever reason, the back of the book never grabbed me. And I heard rumblings that the book had some problems, which I will get to later. Outlander is the story of Claire Randall, an English woman freshly back from WWII where she served […]
Freaks & Geeks
As I was reading this book, I kept thrusting it into people’s hands demanding that they read the back cover. This book swings for the fences and I knew that no matter what my ultimate opinion of the experience, it wouldn’t be for lack of ambition on Julia Elliott’s part. Read the rest at Pop Culture Penalty Box.
Chekhov’s Axe
I don’t want to talk in too many specifics about this book. I loved coming into it completely unawares, like stumbling on a deer grazing in a meadow and realizing a wolf is watching it too. This story was evidently inspired by the story of the Forest Boy, who you may remember stumbled out of the woods a few years ago and claimed he had been living in the German woods for five years with his father. That “true” story was utterly fabricated, and this book […]
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