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Neil deGrasse Tyson says, “Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive.” True confessions: I have actually tried this. Does not work.
Dangerous downloads in a couple of ways: 20 banned books, for free. I make no representation that these works are in the public domain in your jurisdiction; some clearly are public domain worldwide, some are public domain in some places, and some …
Is fandom disqualifying from politics? WoW fan by night, state legislative candidate by day. Sounds good to me, but not to her Republican opponent.
Suzanne Collins, The Mockingjay: I read a bunch of reactions to this book a long time ago, before I’d read any of the series, and I understand why a lot of them were disappointed/angry. The level of betrayal and trauma Katniss suffers is huge even compared to the events of the earlier books, and one could very easily predict that her suffering was all for naught, though I don’t think that’s definite. Moreover, it’s true that she’s out of action for a bunch of key plot points. Nonetheless, I thought it worked very well. I wouldn’t have believed a third round of Hunger Games; I did believe that she was traumatized to the point of catatonia and, at the end, one very bad decision. I liked that at no point did she or the text suggest that her anger wasn’t a legitimate way to respond to her terrible circumstances even as she understood that she was not in any way ok. I want more angry, damaged heroines, not just damaged heroines. This isn’t a comfortable book, but I don’t think I would have enjoyed a more comfortable book as much.
Stacia Kane, Unholy Ghosts: Chess is a Churchwitch (a disposer of ghosts and a Debunker of pretend hauntings; since the Church pays well for victims of hauntings, there’s always an incentive to cheat) and a drug addict. These two things don’t play well together, especially as her day job intersects with her illicit activities when her dealer demands that she disperse pesky ghosts without bringing the Church into it. I really liked Chess and her romantic triangle with two legitimately unsuitable/dangerous men; they both seemed like bad decisions, and I found that refreshing. I am intrigued by the Church (ghosts rose in 1997 and the Church, not a Christian one, was the only one that could help) and by Chess’s serious devotion to it. I’m not so sure about the cartoon bad guys, but I will definitely be reading further anyway.
Dangerous downloads in a couple of ways: 20 banned books, for free. I make no representation that these works are in the public domain in your jurisdiction; some clearly are public domain worldwide, some are public domain in some places, and some …
Is fandom disqualifying from politics? WoW fan by night, state legislative candidate by day. Sounds good to me, but not to her Republican opponent.
Suzanne Collins, The Mockingjay: I read a bunch of reactions to this book a long time ago, before I’d read any of the series, and I understand why a lot of them were disappointed/angry. The level of betrayal and trauma Katniss suffers is huge even compared to the events of the earlier books, and one could very easily predict that her suffering was all for naught, though I don’t think that’s definite. Moreover, it’s true that she’s out of action for a bunch of key plot points. Nonetheless, I thought it worked very well. I wouldn’t have believed a third round of Hunger Games; I did believe that she was traumatized to the point of catatonia and, at the end, one very bad decision. I liked that at no point did she or the text suggest that her anger wasn’t a legitimate way to respond to her terrible circumstances even as she understood that she was not in any way ok. I want more angry, damaged heroines, not just damaged heroines. This isn’t a comfortable book, but I don’t think I would have enjoyed a more comfortable book as much.
Stacia Kane, Unholy Ghosts: Chess is a Churchwitch (a disposer of ghosts and a Debunker of pretend hauntings; since the Church pays well for victims of hauntings, there’s always an incentive to cheat) and a drug addict. These two things don’t play well together, especially as her day job intersects with her illicit activities when her dealer demands that she disperse pesky ghosts without bringing the Church into it. I really liked Chess and her romantic triangle with two legitimately unsuitable/dangerous men; they both seemed like bad decisions, and I found that refreshing. I am intrigued by the Church (ghosts rose in 1997 and the Church, not a Christian one, was the only one that could help) and by Chess’s serious devotion to it. I’m not so sure about the cartoon bad guys, but I will definitely be reading further anyway.