Feminism for Real, ed. by Jessica Yee
This is an amazing, honest anthology on the tensions in a movement that’s partly institutionalized in the academy and non-profit world, and partly emergent from the lived experiences of oppressed...
View ArticleReviews in Brief: Ancestral Magic, Bloodrights, Southern Gods
Ancestral Magic is one of the first books by Moondancer Drake. PLOT PLOT PLOT: Sky’s a single mom whose waitressing job is barely enough to pay the bills. Meg, Sky’s bestie and sister-in-law, has...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Anne McCaffrey
Just saw on a listserv that Anne McCaffrey died. Y’all know that I have some mixed feelings about Pern. At the same time, Pern (and MZB’s Darkover) represented a way into fandom for me as a tween. Not...
View ArticleWhat I’m NOT Reading: The Delilah Complex
First up, Sylvia’s got a review up here. Secondly, Bitch goes all macro on a bad book. <3 And now… our sentences of the week! From The Delilah Complex: The way she imitated the worst traits in a man...
View ArticleReviews in Brief: Size 12 is Not Fat, Territory, Rune of Unmaking
Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery only makes sense if you realize that it’s not set in REAL New York. It, like the Dresden Files, is set in White City, where POC are fairly absent or...
View ArticleWhat I’m NOT Reading: Torrodil
Jesus Christ. Okay, here’s the book description: Consigned at birth to society’s scrapheap, the closest Anna Gray has gotten to adventure is an outbreak of Black Pox. But when the enemy lays waste to...
View ArticleWhat I’m NOT Reading: The Looking Glass War
I was really looking forward to this book, but ultimately found that the tight timeline (necessary to avoid having an adult female princess!!!!!111!) stretched my credulity too far. Here’s my breaking...
View ArticleA Dance with Dragons — SPOILERS AHOY!
Rightio! I finally cracked and readA Dance With Dragons. I put it off for a while, because ASoiF and I have a love/hate relationship. I’m redonkulously over the casual misogyny and ableism when I’m...
View ArticleWhat I’m not reading: The Child Thief
Lollerskates! A blog about narrative faults in Twilight. I finished The Child Thief, and marveled at the lack of research into American history, city life, and military and poverty culture. Basically,...
View ArticleThe Casual Vacancy
I’ve long said that Harry Potter as a series is about the very best of a generation of young people… and the way all the adults in their lives systemically fail them. The Casual Vacancy is… well. It’s...
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