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The Terrible Desire: Villette-along Week 3: "A pink dress! I knew it not. It knew not me."
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Monday, March 16, 2015. Villette-along Week 3: "A pink dress! I knew it not. It knew not me.". After this week, I'm more certain that I love Lucy and moderately less certain that I love Dr. John, and a surprise dark horse has emerged in the competition for Lucy's heart. But Lucy. Allow me to briefly sing her praises. Sass, of course. Not everyone is cut out to care for children, let alone children with special needs, and that was not her job at the school. She got the responsibility by default becaus...
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The Terrible Desire: Lazarus: Game of Thrones meets Wolverine meets...Mr. and Mrs. Smith? In any case, there's a salsa-dancing scene.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Lazarus: Game of Thrones meets Wolverine meets.Mr. and Mrs. Smith? In any case, there's a salsa-dancing scene. I haven't been finishing much of anything in the book department lately, but I binge-read the first three volumes of Greg Rucka's Lazarus. Series and give it two strong yet feminine thumbs up. Female-character-who-isn't-Leia. I was intrigued. Rucka has had a hand in almost every superhero comic property: Wolverine. He has seventeen pages on Goodreads. You get the idea.
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The Terrible Desire: August 2014
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Sunday, August 24, 2014. Alias Hook: Well, I didn't hate it. Fairy Tale Cleverly Retold is one of my favorite book flavors. And my first cartoon crush, aside from Robin Hood the (literal) fox, was Captain Hook. I like a man who wears a jaunty hat and creatively compensates for a crippling disability. But most important, he and I agree on one crucial point:. Peter Pan is an asshole. Because you drug them with pixie dust. Love, dammit), I couldn’t get my hands on it fast enough. I mean, they might. Jensen ...
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The Terrible Desire: Villette-along Week 5: "I never offer flowers to those I love."
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Villette-along Week 5: "I never offer flowers to those I love.". M Paul is not a clear-cut romantic hero. That is to say, if CB tells us one good thing about him, she immediately balances it out with something negative. He tutors Lucy one-on-one and challenges her to stretch herself mentally because he believes in her intelligence even if she doesn't. (HURRAY! He's a jerk to her when her hard work pays off and she finally starts excelling in her studies. (BOO! You are well habitu...
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The Terrible Desire: Mini Readathon: The readathon for people with reasonable expectations
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Mini Readathon: The readathon for people with reasonable expectations. I'm sitting here at my computer at 7:30 am on a Saturday before even visiting the coffee fountain, dispenser of all life. But that's the last unreasonable thing I'll do today, because the minithon. So what am I reading? I was listening to a Literary Disco. And he talked about how surprisingly adult the prose is and how strange it is to revisit the book as an adult. I have planned to read today, because having a...
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The Terrible Desire: September 2014
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Landline: Take in combination with Greg Laswell song of the same name. Writer's orders. It’s no secret around these parts that I’m a fan of this Rainbow lady. Thanks to my continued association with people who have their fingers on the pulse of literature (pretty sure this all started with. But then of course it was. Who enthusiasm-ed Rainbow into being our friend), I got in on the ground floor with. And have since happily ridden the elevator up, first to. 8212; domesticall...
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The Terrible Desire: January 2015
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Sunday, January 11, 2015. The Humans: Every few years we have to convince some alien race that we deserve to live and also that our noses are nice. Oh, the burdens of humanity. Matt Haig retweets a lot of the nice things people say about his book (which you shouldn't do too. Often, authors, please keep in mind) and I suppose all that niceness wheedled its way into the book-choosing region of my brain. So it came to be that I was opening The Humans. Without knowing much of anything about it. This is what ...
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Reading Rambo: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Medieval Women by Eileen Power: The medieval ages weren't a great time to be a woman. I've been eyeing the extremely short Medieval Women. By Eileen Power for a few years, and lo, it is finally finished. Eileen Power has her own Wikipedia page. Which is a collection of her lectures published after her death (and aw, was edited by her husband). 1 Medieval ideas about women. 3 The working woman in town and country. 4 The education of women. WHY should you care about this? During...
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Reading Rambo: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Villette continues: "Good-night, Dr. John; you are good, you are beautiful; but you are not mine" and other words a 16-year-old can relate to. Thisis a bonnet-grec. If you search "smoking cap" you will find a vast assortment of vaguely similar and horrifying hats. This is what M. Paul wears basically all the time. I feel like their relationship is one step from this song conversation. I'm not gay, I just like standing really close to girls. And make out with them sometimes.".
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Reading Rambo: The Hallowed Ones & The Outside by Laura Bickle: AMISH VAMPIRE NOVELS, PREPARE YOURSELF
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. The Hallowed Ones and The Outside by Laura Bickle: AMISH VAMPIRE NOVELS, PREPARE YOURSELF. Hands down, the best thing about these two books is you get to say you're reading an Amish vampire novel. Who doesn't want more information after hearing those. And its follow-up The Outside. Concern an Amish girl named Katie who slowly realizes THAT THE WORLD IS TURNING INTO VAMPIRES. Why? How does she find this out? Katie, the.spiritually confused vampire decapitator.". And then Elders ar...
