In conversation with some friends a couple months ago it occurred to me that I don’t know anyone who is transgender. Or, I might, but I don’t know. I also realized that I have a rather cursory understanding about the issues facing the Transgender community outside of the coverage of said issues in the media over the past few years. It was fortuitous then that as part of the Read Harder Challenge task number five is reading a book either about or by someone who identifies […]
Darcy & Lizzie – Not a Pride & Prejudice Fanfic
I wasn’t expecting such a clever, enjoyable read. Westerfeld has his cake and eats it with two stories happening simultaneously in alternating chapters. Darcy Patel is a very young (just out of high school) writer who puts off going to college and moves to New York City after she lands a major book deal. Her début novel is about a girl named Lizzie who survives a terrorist attack by pretending to be dead and slipping into the afterworld. In the afterworld, Lizzie meets a mysterious […]
You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.
“This could be heaven, or this could be hell…” This week’s review is brought to you Don Henley’s righteous white man’s afro. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvSsNSuVtk&w=420&h=315] Katie: This may come as a surprise to some of you, but I believe in ghosts, so it’s kind of ironic (or something, anyway) that this week’s selection is about a “Ghostbuster” named Wolf Hellsinger and a children’s book author/illustrator named Tristan Pryce who sees dead people. After all, my middle school looks like it should be haunted, I grew up […]
This made me love Tiny Cooper even more
About a month ago, I read the excellent Will Grayson, Will Grayson and through its pages got to know not only the two Wills, but the incomparable Tiny Cooper, who (if I made such a list, and I may have to now) would end up high on my top 10 greatest characters finds of the year. Tiny Cooper, best friend extraordinaire to one of the Will Graysons, and briefly boyfriend to the other, is an absolute delight, and his attempts to write, direct, choreograph and […]
Fired UP! or It’s getting hot in here…
Hot Head by Damon Suede
NOTE: I RETRACT ALL GUSHING THAT TAKES PLACE IN THIS REVIEW. THE AUTHOR HAS REVEALED HIMSELF TO BE A GASLIGHTING DICK DURING THE RWA MELTDOWN OF DECEMBER 2019. I adore the fact that Damon Suede’s Hot Head is featured on goodread.com’s list of Top 100 romances, even though it’s a m/m romance. It’s sweet, sentimental, raunchy, probably truer to life in some ways than I’d wish, and you’ll definitely want a fire extinguisher handy while reading because it’s hot-Hot-HOT. Griff and Dante are life-long friends (in fact […]
Life is a highway
Amy Lane’s Sidecar is a lovely trifle of a book that was sent to me by *Name Redacted* (oops! I mean Patty!) a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve only just gotten around to giving it a try because I was preoccupied with reading about Thea Harrison’s Wyr folk and Jordan Castillo Price’s Psycop world. It made for a nice change of pace from the (well-written and enjoyable) alternate worlds of those authors. There was no magic, or ghosts, or psychic talents, or anything of that sort. Instead, […]