Rated Radio On: A Listener's Diary 4/10
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Rated Bunny 8/10
<div>This book is as if THE LATE AMERICANS by Brandon Taylor were a horror novel filtered through Mean Girls and Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" video.<br><br>This is an endorsement.</div>
Rated Call Me By Your Name 10/10
This pressed on a few historic wounds, and I welcomed it.
Rated Cleanness 10/10
I always say that love, lust, loneliness, and longing are the main topics worth writing about, and this book has all of that. Well worth a read.
Rated Building Stories 10/10
What a design achievement. This is a beautifully put together graphic novel; I was a bit nervous handling my library copy. I have a few story quibbles regarding methods of demonstrating low self-esteem, but let's round up on the rating. This is quite something.
Reviewed Deschooling Society
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Reviewed Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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Rated Children of Blood and Bone 8/10
<div>I enjoyed this a lot, and I'm eager to see what the adaptation is going to be like, should it ever come out.</div>
Wants to read Click: One Novel, Ten Authors
Rated Crook Manifesto 8/10
<div>I liked this a lot, and I'm sure that if Colson Whitehead decides to write a third Ray Carney novel, I will read it.</div>
Rated Cutting edge, Vol. 1 6/10
<div>I enjoyed some of the art — though I have no idea why some of the women required corsets and thigh-highs at one point, sigh — and some of the page layouts did a great job at conveying a lot of story information at once. The story itself was an interesting premise, but overall, this was just an ok read.</div>
Rated Dark Gallifrey: Missy, Part 1 8/10
Rated Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy 10/10
Why did I wait so long to read this? Did I need time to lift my head from my own muck first? whatever the reason, I'm glad I read this, finally. Dark, wonderful, obsessive poetry.
Rated Dark Shadows: Echoes Of The Past 10/10
I got this during some Big Finish sale or another, having never listened to a single Dark Shadows story, or really even being familiar with it other than it is one of the older TV properties for which BF had acquired the rights. Essentially, I went in knowing nothing. This was great. It made me want to hear other Dark Shadows stories. (That's how they get you!) A spooky, noir-ish old Hollywood tale.
Rated Doctor Who: Death's Deal 8/10
Pretty solid Tenth Doctor story, and Catherine Tate gets the Doctor's voice well.