It has FINALLY occurred to me who the character of Chrestomanci in Diana Wynne Jones’ Charmed Life reminds me of, both physically — the dapper outfits, the mysterious descriptions of his past and mysterious power — and I swear, it’s Gatsby. As in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The similarities between them (polar-opposite genres [...]
Posts Tagged ‘robin mckinley’
Chrestomanci is like Gatsby! Minus the tragedy…
Posted in random, tagged charmed life, chrestomanci, diana wynne jones, robin mckinley, the great gatsby on Friday 21 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reading the day away hurts the brain.
Posted in criticism, reading, review, tagged breaking dawn, deerskin, first person narration, frodo, lord of the rings, love, robin hobb, robin mckinley, spoilers, stephenie meyer, third person narration, thwwwp, twilight saga, vampires on Tuesday 16 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished Breaking Dawn. Gasp. I’m still on hold for it from the library… which I should go cancel. My friend lent me her friend’s copy — haha — and so I devoured that between last night and this morning (while managing, might I add, to get a full night’s sleep). I’ve got an [...]
The Dresden Files & such
Posted in reading, review, tagged audiobooks, codex alera, epic fantasy, fantasy, harry dresden, jim butcher, robin mckinley, thwwwp, urban fantasy on Wednesday 2 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I’ve been busy. So sue me.
I’m not about to give you the recap from March to July, so deal with it. Punk.
MOVING ON.
One of the things that’s kept me occupied lately are the Harry Dresden books by Jim Butcher. I’d incidentally run into them so many times while perusing Amazon.com in addition to having [...]
Dragonhaven
Posted in fantasy, reading, review, tagged dragon, fantasy, first person narration, happy, robin mckinley, thwwwp on Thursday 13 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I finished Dragonhaven this morning. I started it last night instead of being a good girl and writing… and in the usual McKinley fashion I was sucked in. It says a lot when I read a book in the morning rather than doing something like, well, sleeping. (I started it last night, went to bed, [...]
Where did this month go already?
Posted in criticism, fantasy, motivation / productivity, reading, writing, tagged christmas, fantasy, first person narration, john dickinson, patricia briggs, robin mckinley, stephenie meyer, third person narration, thwwwp on Monday 10 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At least it’s only the 10th of December. If it was next Monday the 17th already I might have to strangle Father Time because that’s just not funny. I still have loads of presents to buy (ugh, or even think about buying; I hate buying presents when I have no idea what to get for [...]
Quite awesome.
Posted in oddity, pondersome riff, reading, tagged beer, carnegie mellon, elizabeth haydon, j. k. rowling, philip pullman, robin hobb, robin mckinley, stephenie meyer on Friday 7 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What’s quite awesome, you say? Many things. Firstly, The Golden Compass opens in theatres nationwide today. I’m so excited! We’re going to see it tomorrow at some point (because we’re lame and we didn’t go at midnight because we’re grown ups now and have ‘responsibilities’… tosh. We went to the midnight shows of Harry Potter [...]
Birth order
Posted in family, reading, tagged elizabeth haydon, family dynamics, patricia briggs, robin mckinley, siblings on Tuesday 23 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading this article today. It’s a well presented article with a lot of good points on both sides of the birth order argument. As a kid I found this sort of thing fascinating because of my family’s dynamics. Both of my parents are youngest siblings (my dad of two, my mom of six) [...]
Moonlight tonight
Posted in criticism, review, tagged joss whedon, robin mckinley, tv, vampires on Friday 28 September 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s still a few hours until Moonlight premieres on CBS and I just read a review of it here, which was kind of depressing.
The CBS blurb made it sound a lot cooler.
Now I’m sad. I was really looking forward to a new vampire drama on TV (I miss both Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Angel, [...]
Long time no post. Bleaaaargh.
Posted in fantasy, obsession, reading, review, theory, tagged fantasy, first person narration, realism, robin mckinley, supernatural, vampires on Wednesday 1 August 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So. I’ll catch you up on more of the, er, New York City details later. For now, I have to get this book out of my system… a little.
I’ve just finished Sunshine by Robin McKinley, and it’s gotten me thinking about a lot of things, not the least of which is writing. But also of [...]
An odd thought…
Posted in oddity, tagged beauty and the beast, robin mckinley on Thursday 17 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was listening to the Beauty and the Beast Original Broadway soundtrack and during the song “If I Can’t Love Her” — the show-stopper at the end of Act I that the Beast sings — I’m always struck with an odd impression of the character Corlath, from The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. Maybe it’s [...]
