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Literary Pretensions: Naming Characters
In Sophomore year of high school my teacher made a very valiant attempt to get us engaged in Great Expectations. At one point she brought up the point that Charles Dickens gave his characters names...
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Review: “Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom”
I believe the last time I read manga was sometime in high school and I was a bit apprehensive about reading a whole book of manga after a few years of rest. It turns out that my eyes very quickly...
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Review: “Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness”
Ian Tattersall, paleoanthropologist par excellence, was the first person to make me feel that I had any grasp of evolution. I read his book on human evolution, The World from Beginnings to 4,000 BCE,...
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I Went to the Library Today
I nearly started to cry in the library today. Inside the fiction stacks I began to feel the familiar pressure build in my chest and I blinked rapidly, not wanting to lose the dignity that I cling to so...
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Review: “God’s Secret Agents”
I’m going to lay this out right here and now: God’s Secret Agents is the best non-fiction book that I’ve read this year (Song of the Vikings is an exceedingly close second) and this review is going to...
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Review: “Trans/Love: radical sex, love & relationships beyond the gender binary”
I don’t know when I first heard of Trans/Love but I do know that at some point I got it into my head that it was a collection of beyond the binary erotica. Last week a friend met me for coffee and they...
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“Star Trek: Federation” [Review]
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens have written a book If you’re a fan of Star Trek it’s worth a look We’ve got Cochraine, Kirk and Picard all keen Going up against a minion of Colonel Green Although...
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Review: “The Abacus and the Cross”
Pope Sylvester II (Gerbert) doesn’t have time for your lack-of-science-and-math bullshit. Remember when I very enthusiastically reviewed Nancy Marie Brown’s Song of the Vikings? Well during the papal...
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Speedy Book Reviews
(In an effort to improve my book reviewing skills I’m trying to post a review of every book I read. Right now I’m a bit behind so instead of three long reviews I’m going to do three shorter reviews.)...
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No, I Haven’t Read “The Ethical Slut” Yet.
One of the many things that I enjoy about my new college is that when I come out as poly the response I get is rarely one of discomfort or a blank lost stare. Instead I’m far more likely to receive a...
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