Reading Rambo

I've been delinquent in updating (for me), but in my defense, I thought you all might need a break after readathon updates. ALSO I was lazy. And have auditions this week, which always throws my brain into a no-read-books flurry. I have a BUNCH of books I want to review, but I don't feel mentally capable of that at the moment. You see, I -- through covert means -- came into possession late last night of a clip involving Helena Landless and Rosa Bud from The Mystery of Edwin Drood kissing on each other's faces. And that, plus audition adrenaline, plus the first Coke I'd consumed in weeks, plus two episodes of Doctor Who -- including one with GHOSTS that was very scary but which also involved me yelling 'KISS. KIIIIIIIIISS' at the screen until whapped by my friend -- PLUS chatting with my lovely roommate whom I hadn't seen in some days, means I was up very late indeed last night. I AM THE DUCKY SO. For now, here're the books I read in April: S...

I am officially reading an insane number of books. I don't know when it got this out of hand. I suspect early January. I have one book I'm technically ACTUALLY reading, and then five billion others (slight exaggeration possibly) I'm picking up at random intervals. So this being my blog where I talk about unfinished books, let's look at some of them: Lamb , Christopher Moore. Ah, recommended by  Alley  and then forcibly lent me by someone (for reals, we didn't discuss it; he didn't ask; it was just shoved at me). I'm...liking it? Yes. I am liking it thus far. But I am not very far. Surpassing the Love of Men , Lillian Faderman . Right. This book. How to explain this book. The title is awful, but it's a product of the 1970s and WE WERE FEELING A LITTLE DEFENSIVE OK. I actually passed this book with an eye-roll about ten times at the library before I found out that 1) Lillian Faderman is the best, and 2) Oh, it's actually a historical/literary surve...

People have been all over Book Riot's Top 50 List , and I could go through the same cliched books we've seen on every You Should Read This Before You Die list and say whether I've read them or not, but fuck that, so I made my own list which peters out in the 40s, because that's when I ceased to find books I SUPER-loved on Goodreads. Basically these are all great. Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis Around the World With Auntie Mame Gone With the Wind , Margaret Mitchell Maus, Art Spiegelman Fun Home , Alison Bechdel Harry Potter , J.K. Rowling The Woman in White , Wilkie Collins Gone-Away Lake , Elizabeth Enright Eugene Onegin , Alexander Pushkin The Lorax , Dr Seuss How I Became a Famous Novelist , Steve Hely Good Omens , Pratchett & Gaiman Roald Dahl. All of Roald Dahl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , Betty Smith Middlemarch , George Eliot Will Grayson, Will Grayson , Green & Levithan Gaudy Night , D.L. Sayers The Screwtape Letters , C.S. Lewis The Ca...