I found this article yesterday on an author’s blog and I absolutely agree with the article (and the author’s sentiment, though I won’t link back out of courtesy to the author’s post’s request). The article’s author makes a terrific, and alarming, point about the potentially dangerous and potent message of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. [...]
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The argument: Bella is no Buffy, to her detriment.
Posted in criticism, fantasy, ranty rant, tagged breaking dawn, female hero, feminism, kick ass women, stephenie meyer, the guardian, twilight saga, YA fantasy on Friday 5 December 2008 | 2 Comments »
The low-brow and high-brow of fantasy books… and movies.
Posted in criticism, ranty rant, tagged epic fantasy, fantasy, legend of the seeker, limyaael, movies, robert jordan, terry goodkind, the eye of the world, true blood, tv, twilight saga, wizard's first rule, writing on Wednesday 22 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just discovered Limyaael’s rants, thanks to a friend’s suggestion, and I’ve read through a ton of them today. I’m so much more random than she is in my blog posts and rants (and exponentially more prone to tangents), but it’s absolutely refreshing to read someone well-read, thoughtful, and full of really well-substantiated complaints, rather [...]
Romance novels & Twilight ranting
Posted in criticism, ranty rant, reading, tagged vampires, writing, fantasy, stephenie meyer, YA fantasy, twilight saga, romance novels, kresley cole, sherrilyn kenyon, teenagers, emo, werewolves on Tuesday 22 July 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve read three books lately: Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren, and A Hunger Like No Other and No Rest For the Wicked by Kresley Cole. (The titles. I KNOW. Oy.) They’re all three legitimate romance novels and I’m a bit embarrassed to say I really enjoyed them. You get past the gratuitous [...]
Upcoming movies: the hype, the adrenaline, and the potential disappoinments…
Posted in ranty rant, whining, tagged christian bale, hancock, harry potter, movies, scientology, stephenie meyer, the dark knight, twilight, will smith on Thursday 3 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m probably — strike that, I am — behind the times when it comes to the news and hype surrounding the upcoming film Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel. For instance, I learned today that its release date is in December, where I had originally (read: in February) heard August. So, good. Um. Yeah. Also, [...]
Oh, crap. It’s March.
Posted in food, motivation / productivity, ranty rant, reading, the past, tagged carnegie mellon, robin hobb on Tuesday 6 March 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yet another weekend spent doing anything but what I’m supposed to be doing. I keep telling myself: it’s just about mid-semester. (March 8th.) It’s okay. I have plenty of time to catch up and crack down on the workload to finish the semester—and my college career—with a bang. It’s all right, I remind myself. The [...]
Wow… I’m on a German computer…
Posted in germany, ranty rant, tagged german language, germany, goethe institut on Saturday 8 July 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The internet situation here is completely annoying. It’s Saturday and I ought to be happily capable of using the internet all day, to *finally* use Skype… but why would anything be convenient? Ever? The computer lab, located on the fifth floor of the Goethe office building and accessible only through a small door that’s relatively [...]
