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Let’s Have a Readover!

You guys, I CANNOT BELIEVE this weather! It's the first week of May and I'm staring out a rain-speckled window at the torrential, all-day downpour that is very much raining on my parade. I'm supposed to go out tonight, but instead of putting on a raincoat and dragging around a soggy umbrella and ruining my hair, do you know what I really want to do? I want to have a readover! A readover is a slumber party for nerds that I just made up. But instead of playing Mystery Date and freezing each others' bras, we'll put on our coziest [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:23-07:00May 4th, 2012|Tags: , , |

Soulless: The Parasol Protectorate

Author: Gail Carriger So, you know, maybe it’s my fault for expecting too much of a supernatural-alternate-history-steampunk-romance. (Not that I’ve really encountered that particular blend of genres before, come to think of it.) Given that there are now five books in the Parasol Protectorate series, though, someone must be enjoying them enough to clamor for more. Maybe the fact that Gail Carriger cranked out those five books in just over three years should have been the first clue that they wouldn’t be masterpieces of period-accurate research and witty dialogue, but after reading Soulless, I think one is more than enough. [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:24-07:00April 26th, 2012|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

World Book Night 2012

World Book Night is coming! On April 23, to be specific, which is also the UNESCO International Day of the Book (which has a pleasingly historical sound). The day was chosen in honor of Shakespeare and Cervantes, who both died on that day in 1616, apparently. In Spain's Catalan region, the day is celebrated by giving a loved one a book and a flower — a perfectly charming gesture that I think we should all adopt immediately. World Book Day is celebrated in the UK and Ireland by giving children a book, and World Book Night grew out of that [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:30-07:00April 11th, 2012|Tags: , , , |
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