Twilight – Cannonball Read 17

The Twilight story we never knew we needed

Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer

March 15, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight? It’s Twilight, but from Edward’s point of view. So, boy meets girl. Boy is actually a vampire and wants to kill said girl, but before he can he falls in love with her. But soon he realizes his love for her will only put her life in danger and does put her […]

Harry Potter is a Herione and Wonder Woman is a Hero

The Heroine's Journey by Gail Carriger

March 7, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

Warning: this is a review of an at least partially academic book. It gets into theory-world (literary theory) pretty hard. However, it’s also very strongly based in popular culture, mostly to help make the point that the patterns of interest to certain types of theory are influential in stories and entertainment types things beyond “Literature”-with a capital L. The style of the book is also pretty low-key; this is not an insult; it is a statement that although the book tackles some pretty academic conceptual […]

CBR Diversions – Literary Couples That Make You Swoon

February 11, 2021 by teresaelectro 48 Comments

With Valentine’s Day swiftly approaching, romance is in the air. To complement our featured romance book reviews, this week’s CBR Diversion celebrates our favorite literary couples. Who makes you swoon? I know many of you are historical romance fans who love a reformed rake who meets his match. Daphne and Simon have become quite popular in the zeitgeist after the Netflix adaption of Julia Quinn’s The Duke and I premiered. Personally, I’m a sucker for the slow burn courtship in urban fantasy series. In the […]

You are my life now

Twlight by Stephanie Meyer

July 16, 2019 by vel veeter 1 Comment

CBR11Bingo – Not My Wheelhouse So when I thought about what kind of book would really count as a not my wheelhouse kind of thing, financial analysis, self-help books, math books, hard science texts are more or less what comes to mind. But I really didn’t want to read those. So instead, I picked what I would maybe consider as far removed from my wheelhouse in terms of fiction (other than hard-right military bullshit, which I didn’t feel like, because I didn’t want to get […]

In which I spurn the vox populi, and try to find a light in the darkness

September 4, 2016 by ingres77 10 Comments

It’s weird, writing this review. Not because I’m struggling to put into words the thoughts and feelings I have about this book, but because I never thought I’d be here. I’d never thought I’d have to be here, reviewing Twilight. I never thought I’d be in a place where I’ve read Twilight. But I am, and it’s all Rainbow Rowell’s fault. To recap: I first read Landline and, like all rational humans, absolutely loved it. Before I even digested the majesty of Rowell’s word soup, […]

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