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Page to Screen: The Mortal Instruments — City of Bones (2013) 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones based on the novel by Cassandra Clare Oh, Cassandra Clare. I’ve been feeling more kindly to her as of late, due to some of her comments at the Mortal Instrument...
The Sunday Salon: An Introduction to Star Trek: The Original Series 25 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
As you may have noticed, I like Star Trek. After Star Trek Into Darkness proved to me that J. J. Abrams is not interested in furthering Gene Roddenberry’s vision of a utopian future, I hurled myself i...
Page to Screen: For Your Eyes Only (1981) 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
For Your Eyes Only based on the short story collection by Ian Fleming At last, the Bond films enter my beloved eighties. If you’re new around here, I am an eighties freak of the highest order—to cel...
Review: Best Food Writing 2011 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Best Food Writing 2011 edited by Holly Hughes I think the reason I like food writing so much is because it’s both personal and, if done correctly, visceral. I say “visceral” instead of “sensual,” bec...
Review: If You Could Be Mine 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
If You Could Be Mine by Sarah Farizan Two years ago, Malinda Lo, whom I consider a sort of personal saint of queer young adult fiction, crunched some numbers that revealed a lot about the young adult...
The Sunday Salon: The End of Summer 18 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Fall might officially start on September 22nd and it might be in the nineties in Denver (sidebar: dry heat is worse than humidity, I have been lied to), but once I sight the end of August on my chrono...
Review: Jane Austen’s England 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Jane Austen’s England by Roy and Lesley Adkins While my historical education has always been spotty, there are a few periods of history that were always pretty clearly defined for me: the ancient wor...
Reading by Ear: Ella Enchanted 14 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine read by Eden Riegel As y’all know, I am a very visual person—that’s why this is a reread feature, not a first read feature. As a kid, cover art could make or bre...
Review: Mouse Guard Fall 1152 12 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Mouse Guard Fall 1152 by David Petersen Mouse Guard Fall 1152 was the one of the first independent comics I ever picked up. I distinctly remember picking through the collected comics at my childhood ...
The Sunday Salon: A Trick for Online Handles and Usernames 11 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
As a disturbingly intense and pretentious preteen during the absolute thick of the Wombat Years, I took my online usernames very seriously. My Neopets username had to communicate how mature and seriou...
