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Joss Whedon Rocks the World (movie review--no spoilers)
We went to see the midnight showing of The Avengers last night. I'm getting a bit old for that sort of thing, so I've been paying for that decision today. I'm not regretting it. Not one little bit. In fact--and I'm almost never able to say this about a book or a movie--I can't find ANYTHING bad to say about it!
So, the good stuff. There's so much... ( Read more... ) -
Kindle and the Gothic Novel (book review)
I just finished reading my first novel on the Kindle: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, a late-18th-century gothic novel that was (very justly) satirized by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey.
The Kindle
Plusses: I can read free e-books without sitting at my computer.
Minuses: Is uncomfortable to hold, and awkward to turn pages. Perhaps I'm just ( Read more... ) -
Hiring Discrimination on the Left
Those of you who are familiar with what I went through in graduate school as a moderate will recognize that this is subject near and dear to my heart...or more accurately, my spleen.
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Surviving Time Travel and the Blitz
After waiting for a painful number of years for Connie Willis to FINALLY write another book, it was distressing to have to wait (for the cheaper paperback version) until Christmas 2010 to buy it...only to discover that it was the first half of a two-part novel, the second half of which I wasn't able to buy until Christmas 2011. It was also ( Read more... ) -
Movie Review
I've been horribly neglecting LJ, especially since I got a full-time job. But this is really the best place to vent my frustrations with Unknown, the Liam Neeson movie I finally got to see last night.
The movie has a fascinating premise: a botanist who has come to Berlin to present a paper at an international conference wakes up after a car accident ( Read more... ) -
Summer Movies
I've been meaning for months to review the various movies I've seen this summer, but I never seemed to have the necessary energy. Now that summer is over, perhaps a long post about all of those movies will have to do. I'll put the comments about each one behind its own cut. There are likely to be spoilers, so be warned.
First up was Thor.
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NPR's top 100 Sci-fi/Fantasy novels (meme)
Bold if you've read, italicize the ones you fully intend to read, underline if it's a series you've read part but not all of, strike-through the ones you've tried to read and couldn't get through. Put a * in front of your favorites.
The thing that amazes me is that I didn't italicize more books. Maybe because if I haven't read them by this stage of ( Read more... ) -
Test
I apologize to my regular readers, but this is a test, this is only a test.
