by John Scalzi Okay, I’ll admit, I wasn’t that psyched about the first book in this series. I’m not even sure why. I think my family may have inadvertently done it a disservice by raving about it so much before I read it. When I finally got around to it I thought it was pretty …
by John Green Okay, seriously, when did all the YA books get so depressing? I feel like society is sending children conflicting signals when they tell them to Play! and Enjoy being young! Have a childhood! Read about children dying of cancer! What? That being said, it was, of course, an excellent book. I fell …
by Charles Dickens I’m going to make a confession. For the most part, I tend to think that Dickens is highly overrated. Mostly I find his stuff overly sentimental (see: A Christmas Story *gag*). I also saw someone else mention that high school teachers do Dickens a great disservice by forcing us all to read …