Wordless Wednesday: two bottle o’whiskey for the way
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Author Archives: Alison L
My Rules of Reading
1. Stop reading books I would rate two stars or lower.
2. Read more books about people of color.
The last 15 books I’ve rated on goodreads. There are some two star reviews in there, but on the whole I enjoyed these books more than my first 15 books of 2013.
Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral
This is the first book that I rated five stars this year (and if the past is any indication, one of the only books I will give five stars this year). I saw it in the library and checked it out on a whim. I think I read about it one time and thought it sounded interesting. It did not disappoint.
Wordless Wednesday: His Dark Materials Illustrations by Peter Bailey
Marry, Date or Dump: The Doctor
I know technically the Doctor is the same character despite having gone through eleven regenerations on Doctor Who, but you know you have favorites. I’ve chosen Eight (who doesn’t love Paul McGann?), Nine (my doctor), and Ten (because I’ve seen half of his episodes and he has the best companions). Feel free to substitute your doctor for any of these three and let us know in the comments who you’d marry, date and dump!
Ten
Nine
Eight
The Elite by Kiera Cass
I am having a physical reaction to writing this review, so this is all I’m writing for now. I may or may not come back and add some thoughts later.
I did not finish reading The Elite. I stopped after I reached page 68 and returned my copy. I will not be reading the last book in the trilogy or any other book Kiera Cass writes in the future.
My issues with The Elite:
1. America’s storyline starts out as, “Will I pick Maxon or will I pick Aspen?” According to others’ reviews this continues for the whole book.
2. I found everything Cass wrote about The American State of China/New Asia/Elise offensive and/or stereotypical.
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The Selection Fiasco
Last year a site was launched called Stop the Goodreads Bullies (no link, if you want to check it out, use the search engine of your choice to read it). I remember hearing about it and considered posting about it. In the end I decided enough people had written enough responses, and it didn’t really deserve any more attention than it was already getting. So I stayed silent on the matter. Continue reading
Marry, Date or Dump: Women of Grey’s Anatomy
I haven’t watched Grey’s Anatomy in years, but I definitely remember the characters from when I did. Here are three lovely ladies from the show. Let us know in the comments who you would marry, date and dump! No substitutions accepted. Unless you want to substitute Dr. Jackson Avery. That’s OK I guess.
Miranda Bailey
Cristina Yang
Callie Torres
Links for a Lazy Sunday
This week’s links post is pretty long. Also some of these articles are pretty old. Also I haven’t included descriptions for a lot of them because I am lazy.
