Oh boy, another great chapter to talk about! Where we start getting into the really fun sexual assault metaphor which manages to give the emotional lesson, without being scary and explicit.
Continue readingOh, this is SUCH a good chapter! It has a reasonable explanation for why immigrant parents want their children to marry within their culture, it has a subtle chauvinism contrasted with apparent chauvinism, and it has a teenage girl being so stupid you want to reach through the pages and shake her, but also you understand.
Continue readingI had a stressful terrible wonderful weekend (moving is HARD y’all! Even when you are moving to your dream place), so I forgot to put up this post on Sunday. And no one noticed, which makes me think it is still just me and Emily and Emily is too nice to complain.
Continue readingYes, an Amitabh Bachchan reference in an American Marvel comic!!!! How can you not want to read this?
Continue readingWoot! Comic books!!!! I am on SUCH a comic book kick right now. They are the perfect thing to read when life is crazy and you can’t focus. And Ms Marvel is, like, THE BEST.
Continue readingI considered doing a straight through read through, but that’s a lot to as of folks both in time and money. So instead, JUST MY FAVORITE VOLUME. Volume 3, “Crushed”, ASIN B00WUNKR4O, Amazon link below. It is also probably available to you through the “Hoopla” library app.
Continue readingI just plowed through the first 10 volumes of collected Ms Marvel strips, covering 2014-2019, in like two days. They are sooooooooooooo good, and there is so much to discuss. I’m trying to figure out how to best discuss them here, and I think some form a readalong would be the way to do it, but only if there is interest.
Continue readingHappy Sunday! I am hoping that more people will have watched this one than the one last week. Not necessarily just now, but at some point in their lives.
Continue readingI really REALLY hope you watched this!!!! It is SUCH a DCIB movie!!!! So strange, so camp, so unique, and with songs!
Continue readingBrace yourself! I’ve got an idea! And I’m gonna run with it! Even if you all end up hating it!
Continue readingWoo-hoo! Poems! Short, powerful, tell a story! No idea if any of you read my three recs, but that’s okay, I am happy just to be able to get them out there so that someday you may read them when you are feeling ballad-y!
Continue readingWooo-hooo, poems! Story poems, the best kind. When I was in middle-school, I had this great textbook “Stories in Verse” which had this whole wonderful random collection of ballad poems. And these 3 are some of my favorites from them.
Continue readingOMG, I almost forgot about this post. It’s been A Day (carpenter here to fix the table before I move it, need to get bookshelves to the storage unit, generally exhausted).
Continue readingYes! It is time to remind you of our next pick, and ask for suggestions for the week after!!!
Continue readingHappy Sunday! And Happy Mother’s Day! And happy day when we talk about a silly happy book that has nothing to do with mother’s!
Continue readingOh boy! It’s all romantic escapism all the time now! I cannot encourage you enough to read this week’s book, it is SO FUN. And next week, I picked a long short story, so it should be super easy. And if you like it, the author has many other books in the series.
Continue readingRemember! Next Sunday, 5/9, Mother’s Day, we are discussing Getting Rid of Bradley! It is a super fun light happy easy addictive sexy rom-com book. I want as many of you as possible to read it, because it will make you HAPPY. And I just want you to be HAPPY.
Continue readingWhat an odd children’s book!!!! A transgender heroine, the only competent army is female, but also there is a weird feminist army of flibbertigibbets. Oh, and a lot of puns.
Continue readingYaaaaaaay, BOOKS!!!!! This are both such light happy summery reads. Those of you who are stressed and overworked (so, almost all of you), these will be lovely easy distractions. Especially Bradley, believe me, you will get 10 pages in and be addicted.
Continue readingThank you Emily for the recommendation! This was the perfect little short story to read and enjoy and then think about who you would cast.
Continue readingYaaaaaay, an Oz book!!!! I love Oz books. So many puns, puns are my favorite. And so many strange characters, many of whom have names that are puns.
Continue readingTime to pick our next book! Or, the next book you want to read us talking about even if you don’t read it yourself. However you think of it.
Continue readingI was running late this week and sat down to finally finish this book last night and it was so GOOD. So very very good. Y’all should read it, especially if you struggled a bit at the opening. It gets better. And then you can picture Sid M. as the hero and Pari as the heroine and be happy.
Continue readingThis book is so FASCINATING, and also so odd, that instead of telling y’all to read it and then having an equal discussion, I want to write a really in depth review so you can make an informed decision, and I can get all my thoughts out. Mostly you need to know that it is weirdly relevant to 2020/2021, as you can see by the quote above summing up a character’s feelings.
Continue readingOh boy, another Christie! This is a recommendation from Emily, a short story with a satisfying love triangle. And a nice little easy read after several weeks in a row of full novels.
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