Tag: Opinion
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What’s her freaking problem with cars?
Further commentary on Manage your Money like a Grownup. Particularly a Challenge to her position on vehicle ownership
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The Great Debate
A recent news article reminded me why I am glad I got an e-reader
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Making Absurd Tropes Believable
An analysis of how to make a really entertaining and compelling romcom
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Middle Book Syndrome
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse I loved the first book in this series Black Sun and have been waiting excitedly for more than 1 year to get a ebook copy of Fevered Sun. Sadly, on its own, its not really worth the wait. It suffers a solid case of second / middle book syndrome; it…
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An Uplifting Fairytale
Rhapsody: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik The author tells us on the first page that Spinning Silver is about paying one’s debts. And maybe that is the moral of those fairytales, pay your debts or else, stay in your place or else. But this story is about so much more than that, its about reaching…
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It’s not as queer as they want you to think
Rant: Loki TV-Series by Marvel In a recent argument a friend insisted that Marvel’s Loki was queer-coded and I looked at her – on the basis of having watched maybe 3 Marvel movies in the last 10 years – in astonishment. So I recently paid my poundage and tuned into the Loki TV-series, mostly to…
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Gaimen is Over-rated
Gaimen is over-rated, a book rant about American Gods
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dont go muddling your genres
The term romantasy annoys me. Mostly, because nobody knows what it means, but everybody acts like they just discovered it. While, as far as Im concerned, it has existed nearly forever just packed away in a genre most people did not think worth their time. One of the problems with trying to talk about Romantasy…