What covers would famous male writers probably have been given if they were women?
(via torbooks)
What I’ve been reading…
Star Wars: Scoundrels, Timothy Zahn. I’m ashamed at how long this took me, and I kind of had A Personal Issue with it, but to discuss it is to epically spoil it. I do think that most Star Wars fans will like it, and you don’t need to know anything about the EU to read it, which is a bigger selling point than you’d think. It’s no Mindor but it is, for the most part, a good read.
The Long Price Quartet, Daniel Abraham (aka half of James S. A. Corey.) Jo Walton’s recs strike again: This was the best fantasy I’ve read in a while, really fantastic worldbuilding and characters. READ IT: Vol. 1, Vol. 2.
Shades of Earth, Beth Revis. This is the third of the Across the Universe trilogy. I really liked the first one and kind of soured on the second, but this one actually managed to clear up the issues I had with it. I mean, it’s still VERY YAish sci-fi, but it’s better YA sci-fi than most of the recent YA sci-fi I’ve read. So. You could do worse. (Yes, Glow, that means you.)
Hey, wait a minute! I see some wall space not taken up by bookcases!
(via Lovely Listing)
I… I need this room.
This is me at book sales. Or at least it would be if I had a cart.
I need a cart.
Lisa tries to buy more than her weight in books at the library sale because the ones no one wants are fed to the pigs giving Cletus’s animals “Bridget Jones’s diarrhea.”
Submitted by Alex Leo
Teenage girls are VILE. Prove me wrong with better conduct, teenage girls!
No, seriously, those of us who used to be, or, (God forbid, you poor babies) are still teenage girls, know just how dysfunctional and terrifying they are in groups.
If “Lord of the Flies” had been about a group of…
I really don’t think there’s anything I can add to this. I just want you to read it.
I remember hearing about how one of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time books (a series I have not and will not read) was basically a thousand-page peon to wheat. Now granted, this was no doubt snark, but it also pretty much describes how I feel about this book. [Remove wheat, insert sand and lizards.]
Colonial Australia could probably be a great place for an AU fantasy, but Novik makes it dreadfully boring: The least eventful road trip ever. Three chapters of plot in 300ish pages.
I enjoyed the first couple books of this series, but you know what? This is it. I’m out. Call me if she ever actually concludes anything.
Seriously?
