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Oh, hey. It’s a book review!
Firstly, I just have to say that I really like the cover. It’s so pretty… Actually, I suppose I should probably explain my absence and no post yesterday- I had… a sick. Not really sure what it was, but it was yucky. I had a sore throat and a fever, and spent most of the day sleeping, aching, and not wanting to be touched as my skin gets incredibly oversensitive when I’ve got a fever. I was even feeling too sick to watch Chuck. I mean… yeah. It was bad. I’m still feeling a little woozy headed today, so if I say something that doesn’t make sense, blame it on…
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Ding, dong, the witch is dead!
Uuugggh. Sorry. Just had to get that off my chest. I would do a short premise, but… I can’t. There’s too much going on in the book. So in short, it’s about the Wicked Witch of the West. From the land of Oz. Which we probably all know because of the movie The Wizard of Oz. I have heard so much gushing about how amazing and wonderful and awesome the musical Wicked is, and I was really looking forward to reading the book. After all, if the play is so amazing, the book has to be, too… right? I mean, it was recommended to me by a friend who loves…
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Vampyres and Robots and Jane Austen, oh MY!
Time for Tuesday’s book review! This is either going to be really short or really long, because I’m tired and I have two books to review this week. Book One: The Stepford Wives, by Ira Levin The Review: So I was pretty excited to read this book, because I’ve seen both movies (and am going to watch the newer one when I’m done with this review) and I LOVE the older movie version with Katharine Ross. Amazing. Overall, though I was a little disappointed in the book. Which… doesn’t surprise me. I’m a very critical reader. First thing that bothered me was the crude manner in which sex and desire…
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Book Review: Twilight
So here it is, the first book review of the year. Exciting, right? I’ve literally just finished reading Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. If I were editing it, or reading it on Fiction Press, my review would begin something like this: “Prologue is nice, but the last sentence could be reworked to add a bit more suspense and make it more of a cliffhanger. Perhaps “He sauntered forward to kill me, and his friendly smile drilled fear into my chest.” Throughout the story, you begin many of your sentences with the same word or phrase in succession, and it’s repetitive. (“it was” is one of them.) Also, we should know what…