cheerful cynicism

In the Path of Falling Objects by Andrew Smith ended up crazier than I thought it would go. Absolutely nothing at the beginning prepared me...

The one book I've managed to read this month is, shockingly, a YA book. I was interested in Howl's Moving Castle after watching the...

The book is called My French Whore , and it's written by the actor Gene Wilder. That may be all you need to know about the book, but I...

Inspired by the cheesiness of the last book I read, I decided to go for actual Louisa May Alcott with her ode to hardworking young women in...

YA lit, y'all. It keeps me motivated to read. Toss in some historical setting and a female protagonist and I'm beyond there. Hattie...

When I first read Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles in high school, it blew my mind. This time I read it, and I was only mildly int...

I always wish I watched more old movies. Almost all old movies with a reputation for being awesome are really t hat awesome . But I've s...

Because the world needed another Twilight spoof, the Harvard Lampoon published its own short novel making fun of the popular series last ye...

I picked up Homemade Love by J. California Cooper at the library on a whim, mostly because it was short (175 pages), so I had no idea what t...

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote gives context to the murder of four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959. Gorgeously wri...

In the last few years, The Only Alien On the Planet by Kristen D. Randle has become one of those chicken soup, curl up in bed, and listen t...

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over...

It's official: I'm a Pride and Prejudice slut. I've seen countless adaptations of the story in film and literature (latest trav...

Book 2 of the Hunger Games series, Catching Fire , by Suzanne Collins picks up a few months after the conclusion of book 1 ( Hunger Games )....

Maus (Parts I and II) by Art Spiegelman presents the Holocaust in what seems like a very modern, metaphysical way: through graphic novel tha...

So I went to the library to looking for some sort of Christmas classic that I've never bothered to read, but since it's the holiday ...

It's been about 5 years since I first read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. At the time I was a senior in high school, disint...

Wuthering Heights . Where to begin? The classic romance penned by Emily Bronte is often alluded to, but no one ever tells you the main plot ...

My brain is mush from midterms, so I turned to a classic series from my middle school days, Sweet Valley Senior Year. A spin-off of sorts of...

This is part of Pajiba's 2009-2010 Cannonball Read. The goal is to read and write reviews for 52 books in one year. Let's see if I ...