Category Archives: Books
Manga Classics: Pride and Prejudice
Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice is graphic version of P&P, plus with gorgeous hairstyles, spastic Mrs. Bennett, and — most importantly — Darcy’s shirt just can’t stay on. The sisters of Longborne are beautiful in the typical fantasy-manga style of … Continue reading
Target Audience
Did you know that teaching full-time is time consuming? I’m pretty sure I came to that realization last summer, too, actually. The actual teaching load is a lot easier this summer, because I’m much more comfortable with the curriculum, with … Continue reading
Feminist Magical Realism, in Cambridge, Plus Books
Menna Van Praag’s The House at the End of Hope Street is magical realism set in Cambridge, which pretty much explains exactly why I wanted to read it. A young Cambridge grad student, Alba, stumbles upon a house she’s never … Continue reading
Realistic Teenagers in Jennifer Mathieu’s ‘The Truth About Alice”
The Truth About Alice deals deftly with teenage sexuality and identity in a small Texas town. Everyone in Healy, Texas knows that slutty Alice Franklin slept with two guys in the same night (I shudder to think about high school … Continue reading
Math For Killing Zombies
I’m pretty sure being a professor at a small college is the best way to survive the collapse of society. History professor John Matherson survives in One Second After, and teacher assistant Olive does just fine in An Etiquette Guide To … Continue reading
PanemVille: The Hunger Games Adventures
The Hunger Games novels suggest so many good games — a minigame hunting prey with Katniss’ arrows (a popular choice for the middle-school girls in my game design classes), a crafting and survival game like Lost In Blue set in … Continue reading
An Etiquette Guide To The End Times
In Maia Sepp’s novella An Etiquette Guide to the End Times, Olive writes a blog answering etiquette questions for well-mannered survivalists in the semi-collapsed society. Just because the earth grows warmer every year, beachfront property is now underwater property, and … Continue reading
Still Not Rome.
In which my love of the Rome series tricks me into reading another Colleen McCullough novel. I have mixed feelings on Colleen McCullough’s work. On one hand, Caesar’s Women and the rest of her Rome series are epic and well … Continue reading
I Like Boats: ‘The Girls at the Kingfisher Club’
Genevieve Valentine’s The Girls At The Kingfisher Club is out today! I wrote about it over at Yahoo, where, unfortunately, my original title “I like boats” was not as funny to others as it was for me, and I had … Continue reading
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet
It has been almost six months since I last reviewed a Pride and Prejudice spinoff, so this weekend I read The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick. This is a novelization of the TV series, … Continue reading
