Feminist Fridays: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

I find I’m always interested in feminist perspectives, whether it’s in regards to literature, pop culture, or current events. Feminist Fridays is going to be my forum for discussing these issues, and may come in the form of book (or other media) reviews, link roundups, or my rambling thoughts essays. If you’d like to make a habit of discussing… Continue reading Feminist Fridays: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Fallen Angels: Angelopolis by Danielle Trussoni

Angelopolis by Danielle Trussoni Published: March 26th 2013 by Viking Adult/Penguin Source: local library Synopsis: A New York Times bestseller and global sensation, Angelology unfurled a brilliant tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind’s greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids… Continue reading Fallen Angels: Angelopolis by Danielle Trussoni

It’s Not What You Think: The Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning

Darkfever and Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning  Published: 2006 and 2007 by Delacorte Press Source: local library Synopsis (Goodreads): MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until… Continue reading It’s Not What You Think: The Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning

Nerd Love: The Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

It’s 1999 and Lincoln hasn’t had a girlfriend in a decade, still lives with his mother, and has just taken a job at a newspaper where his main task is to read the emails of his co-workers that are caught in the network filter and flagged as inappropriate. Though he is supposed to reprimand those… Continue reading Nerd Love: The Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Curioser and Curioser: The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories

I’m not generally a fan of short stories. They tend to leave me unsatisfied. Fortunately, The Curiosities: A Collection is so much more than just a book of short stories. The tales grew out of Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff’s collaboration as The Merry Sisters of Fate, a blog where they write in… Continue reading Curioser and Curioser: The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories