Best Book Review Ever.
Marilyn Scott-Waters is an illustrator who makes incredibly cool paper toys and gives them away on her website “The Toymaker.” (If you like them and you can, leave her a tip via Paypal. Free is great but, if you can afford to pay a bit it helps to provide toys for those who can’t. Anyhooo … back to the topic at hand.)
She also writes a mean book review. That’s “mean” as in fantastic not as in she’s a meany. Again, it’s late and I’m rambling. Back to the review of Twilight:
Perhaps you have heard of it? It’s about a clutzy, whiney teenage girl that hates everything in her life until she meets the yummiest, prettiest, shiniest, sparkly superhero vampire who wants nothing more than to know everything about her (like her favorite color), watch her sleep (cree-peeee) and to drive really fast in really expensive Volvos. Once you get past the fact that Bella is a total helpless victim through the whole book and is continually saved by the growling but chaste Edward, it’s a fast read and a guilty pleasure. I’m embarrassed that enjoyed reading it even though I annoyed my poor husband every five minutes with snort laughing and “Can you believe this?”. It was like eating a bowl of sugar babies.
That almost makes me want to read Twilight. Almost but not quite. There are too many books to read and too little time.
If you like the review, check out her livejournal.
I know the feeling; I used to read everything I could lay my hands on, but life’s too short (he says, getting older) and now if it’s not a book I really want to read, then nope. Mind you, there are plenty books out there that I do really want to read … music I want to listen to … and DVDs I want to watch. I just got a copy of “Caprica” through from America today & watched it tonight as it happens. Very interesting, and now I can’t wait for the series …
I’m boycotting Caprica. Then end of Battlestar Galactica was so disappointing and infuriating that I’m not taking another chance.
Again, too little time to waste.
I don’t know, I can see why you’d have that view of the end of BG, but I found that it made me want to go off and watch the whole lot again. (I’m currently halfway though season 2.) I’m going to have to think about it for a few years before passing judgment on how it finished.
The pilot of Caprica was quite good; there are some decent actors involved, and seeing the young Bill Adama was pretty mind-bending.