Have you heard of the Tough Mudder yet? It’s referred to as “probably the toughest event on the planet” which is fair enough considering the obstacle courses scattered through out this 12+ mile race. “What kind of obstacles could be that bad?” you may find yourself asking. The answer would be running through fire, getting [...]
Audiobooks are these awesome things that save me when I need my hands and eyes to be doing something that isn’t holding a book or reading the pages. I’ve been listening to a lot of audiobooks lately, or rather quite a few of the same ones over and over. It’s not that I don’t want [...]
Title: Darkfever (Fever Series, Book 1) Author: Karen Marie Moning Genre: Urban fantasy The gist: Darkfever is like if Buffy the Vampire Slayer was actually Mac the Fairy Slayer and went on a quest to Ireland to avenge her sister’s murder. Initial attraction: Potentially BAMFy character, fairies, and the opening lines are “My philosophy is [...]
Some brief and probably spoilery thoughts on Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1. Because I went to the midnight opening and because it’s Twilight you really can’t expect me to have particularly deep or coherent thoughts, but here they are anyway. – Every movie should start with Taylor Lautner running around shirtless, this is a strong [...]
You might have noticed that Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came out on Friday. It is basically a miracle I have gotten anything at all done since then and even that is only through sheer indomitable force of will and unconscionably large amounts of caffeine. Because you know what? Totally most awesomest game of awesome and [...]
The gist: Remember Matthew Shepard? Shine is like that but Southerny-er and wrapped around a mystery. Title: Shine Author: Lauren Myracle Genre: Young adult, realistic fiction Initial attraction: First Lauren Myracle pwnd that annoying chick from Wall Street Journal and then got burned by the National Book Awards which propelled my interest in the book [...]
Welcome to Bordertown (edited by Holly Black and Ellen Kushner) was definitely one of my favorite reads of 2011 so of course the first panel I crashed at FaerieCon was Welcome to Bordertown with Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Annette Curtis Klause, Charles de Lint, and which was moderated by Robert Gould. Rather than just completely [...]
My thoughts on the Penn State Scandal can be summed up by repeating “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” over and over, and then flailing around screaming “EW! EW! EW! SQUICK! SQUICK! SQUICK!” a lot, because you know, EW. That being said, I don’t care even the [...]
Remember how I said I was going to go fangirl at Karen Healey over at Books of Wonder in NYC for the Fantastic Teen & Tween Fiction event? Yeah, that was an awesome time. The other authors on the panel were Louis Buitendag (The Bloomswell Diaries), Marianna Baer (Frost), Jocelyn Davies (A Beautiful Dark), E. [...]
Some thoughts on this season’s television lineup: Dexter – Dexter and I almost broke up when the writers committed an Unforgivable Writing Sin™ but after a few months I couldn’t help myself from taking him back. I love me a serial killer with a heart of gold, I really do. I JUST CAN’T HELP IT. [...]
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