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I’m not the first person to point this out, but I still wanted to provide an analysis, since I just posted a review of A Christmas Carol. I neglected to mention this topic there, which is why I decided to make an additional post. Get ready for a short essay that is actually more a ramble. In…
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Back in October, I got myself a Halloween present: a ticket to StarKid Productions’ new musical The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals. I posted a spoiler-free review of it here already, but now that the musical is available to watch on YouTube (and also on DVD/digital download), I’m going to sit here and talk about the more spoiler-y aspects of…
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I hardly remember my views of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy the first time I read it in high school, but this time I greatly enjoyed it. Gotta love a historical fiction with romance, adventure, and a mysterious figure in disguise. The characters are excellent. Marguerite is a good protagonist, clever and brave, if a…
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I admit it. Even I was initially intimidated by the length of this book. And I’m that person who read Harry Potter at age eight, who’s devoured books in a single day, who has a reading list that numbers in the triple-digits. But seeing Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell for the first time in a bookstore, I thought, “well, that’s…
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Looking back, I should have known this book would be devastating. Especially considering how much I love mythology, I should have seen it coming, how emotionally invested I got. In fact, I spent most of the evening after I finished the book texting my friend in all caps about this novel. So yeah. You could…
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I recently watched The Curse of Frankenstein (1957, dir. Terence Fisher) and was pleasantly surprised! In this review, I will go into SPOILERS, so if you haven’t seen this film, you’ve been warned. Also FYI I’m about to talk for way too long about this. Someday I’ll learn how to be succinct. (But it is not this…
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So story. My first read of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak took me about four months to finish. I blame college. I Am the Messenger took probably two. The only one I’ve read in a reasonable amount of time is the Underdogs trilogy, but only because I read it in the summer. After that, I thought I’d broken my…
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Yesterday was Halloween, and I hope everyone enjoyed it! Last evening, I ended up watching the film on Netflix, Extraordinary Tales, which is a series of short films based on some famous Edgar Allan Poe stories — because, you know, Halloween. Spookiness. Etc. (Thanks to my friend Katherine for introducing me to this film!) In this, five stories…
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I’m doing something new! I’ve never done a review of a play before! (Probably because I rarely get to see live theatre.) So this past weekend I got to see the new Team StarKid production, The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals! I’ve been a fan of StarKid for about 8 or 9 years, since my friends showed…
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I got an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. As this means the version I read is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Alyssa, a teenager living in the Los Angeles area, turns on a faucet one day.…