Books, Reviews

Through the Arc of the Rainforest

Hello! I am still on vacation, and thus I still can't be bothered to come up with anything other than book recommendations. So, for the third week in a row, here is one of my favorite books: Through the Arc of the Rainforest by Karen Tei Yamashita. This was one of those rare books I… Continue reading Through the Arc of the Rainforest

Books, Reviews

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Last week reminded me how much I like talking about books that I like, which I don't actually do that often. I tend to write more posts about things that I don't like, which makes it seem like I don't actually like books, which couldn't be further from the truth! To rectify this, and also… Continue reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Books, Reviews

The Years of Rice and Salt

You may have noticed it has been a while since I have talked about what I am reading. There is a very good reason for this. The reason is that I have been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, which is 763 small-print pages long, and as I may have mentioned before… Continue reading The Years of Rice and Salt

Books, Movies, Rant, Reviews

The Princess Bride

Those of you (all 5 of you or whatever) who follow me on twitter already know this, but I recently read The Princess Bride, the book, which preceded the film, and it made me about twenty different varieties of pissed off. If I could go back in time and erase not only my memory of reading… Continue reading The Princess Bride

Books, Reviews, SciFi

The Lost World

I read a book! You might not know it judging by how little I've written about them lately, but I'm pretty much constantly reading something (if you want to know what I'm reading right now, there's a goodreads widget on the bottom of my sidebar - let's be friends!). This time, the book I read… Continue reading The Lost World