| am reluctant to admit that most of my artistic energy has been spent drawing men from Doctor Who and Sherlock. But I’ve fallen into this phase where observational drawings give me a lot more catharsis than my own characters, probably due to the fact that I’ve been doing very little writing or story-telling. I […]
I am sleepy and just finished the movie after having read 400 pages of Phillipa Gregory’s “The Other Boleyn Girl” over the last two days and the other 250 pages within the last week. In other words, will this review be as coherent as I’d like? Probably most definitely not. Anyway, I hardly need to […]
So, not only is this the first book I’ve actually finished for pleasure in a long while (I don’t even remember what the last one was…”Return of the King,” probably), it was also very far out from my usual. As emphasized by its coincidence with Tolkien. “It’s Superman!” is what it sounds like. It’s a […]
So, one of my all-time, longest-lasting favorite movie is “Mulan.” My whole family + all the childhood friends I’ve ever had know this. My high school and my Bethany friends know this, and most of them agree with me. Now, “Mulan” merits praise for a lot of the obvious reasons: it has some of the […]
“Rape of the Lock” Aubrey Beardsley 1896 I MEAN HOLY SHIT.
So I have a confession about this “guilty pleasure” television show that turned out not to be such a “guilty” pleasure — it was called “The Playboy Club.” It premiered on NBC and my attraction to it was the 1960’s vintage setting. I watched the first episode online expecting to quickly and with much disgust […]
I am experiencing the most intense literature-related whiplash OF MY LIFE. You know what I’m talking about — the daze that follows the departure from a fictional world in which you’ve long invested, whether your own or someone else’s. In my case, devouring the tales from Middle-earth as penned by J.R.R. Tolkien was an unexpected […]
So, with the Redefining Evil trailer mostly done, and nothing to do for that but wait for C’s edit to come back to me, I once again was restlessly without a project. The book teaser took me a solid week to do. I wanted to hold off on publishing it to give myself time to […]
“…Do I want to? No way in hell.” In the rewrite of the hospital-related chunk of RE, I offered Danyil an adorable LotR reference. I’d been trying to decide what sort of man he was outside of his police chief persona, and I’m thinking he’s pretty much a huge book nerd. And no, I don’t […]
Whoo-ie! I love me a good book-related rant, especially when it’s something as unusual and truly inspiring as Mary Doria Russell’s 1996 novel The Sparrow. I’m actually reading this book for my transfer Christianity course, and given how the class has gone thus far, I see why. See – it’s a piece of fiction. It’s […]