March 2012
23 posts
“Jess: Why do we care about a crescent moon?
Winston: I don’t know....”
– New Girl, Episode 14, Bully
February 2012
13 posts
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Deanna Troi: Y U NO do anything of value in TNG?
Things that make me angry.
Deanna Troi is the most useless character on TNG. Why. Is. That.
“I sense anger.” No fucking shit, they just set phasers to maximum setting, genius.
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Call my favorite books airport reading one more...
Things that make me angry.
Yesterday, someone called the Hunger Games and other “books that don’t even try to be subtle” airport reading.
He wasn’t just referring to YA; he was also talking about genre fiction.
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Mockingjay Fizzles. There, I said it.
Things that make me angry.
Poorly constructed conclusions to gripping, fast-paced series.
I felt that Hunger Games and Catching Fire were both so strong, so engaging, so compelling. Because each Game is the plot anchor. Without it, Mockingjay flounders in a post-apocalyptic rebel alliance teens-take-over-the-world type deal that loses what made the first two books so special:
Collins’...
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Hunger Games & Systems of Oppression
Cross-posted from my blog, Scribbles & Sonnets.
There are no spoilers in this post. Although I read all of the articles for lecture and conference this week (as well as the mountain of other work for other courses), I must confess: my thoughts have been wholly consumed by The Hunger Games, a young adult series by Suzanne Collins that I started reading for Carolyn’s conference which is...
