Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 157
March 4, 2014
Firestarter
“Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror…
First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers.
Then, they are married and have a child. A daughter.
Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Desperately, her parents try to train her to keep that force in check, to “act normal.”
Now the government wants its brainchild back—for its own insane ends.”
This was the second time I a...
February 25, 2014
Carrie
“Stephen King’s legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.
Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power and her sin. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be a normal and go to her senior prom. But another act–of ferocious cruelty–turned...
February 18, 2014
The Complete Knifepoint Horror
“Knifepoint Horror is an original genre which strips tales of supernatural suspense down to such a raw, minimalist form that literally nothing is left over to allow the mind a respite of even a single paragraph. To accomplish this, the most primal element of storytelling–a single human voice describing events exactly as it experienced them–is adhered to without embellishment or exception. Within these pages lie taut, unadorned first person narratives from agonized souls, minus all the stylish...
February 11, 2014
A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Around the World
“When was the first chat line between men established? Who was the first “lesbian”? Were ancient Greek men who had sex with each other necessarily “gay,” and what did Shakespeare think about crossdressing?
A Little Gay History answers these questions and more through close readings of art objects from the British Museum’s far-ranging collection. Consulting ancient Egyptian papyri, the Roman Warren Cup’s erotic figures, David Hockney’s vivid prints, and dozens of other artifacts, R. B. Parkinso...
February 4, 2014
If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won’t)
“It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between.
Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White’s wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals, and the brave new world of celebrity. If You Ask Me mixes her thoughtful observations with humorous stories from a seven- decade career in Hollywood. Longtime fans and ne...
January 30, 2014
FF: i want to feel it over all the time
Title: i want to feel it over all the time
Author: drashian
Universe: Metal Gear Solid
Pairing: Snake/Otacon
Summary: Slight invasions of privacy, a gunshot wound, faulty equipment, slowly brewing international crises, and the latest espionage movies. Normal Hal and Dave things.
I am officially in love. I have been looking for Metal Gear Solid FF since I learned FF existed, but I never really found it until tonight. I am so happy. Not only was it a pairing I totally ship, but it has a FtM as a mai...
January 25, 2014
Rapture
“The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her much admiredamong contemporary poets. Rapture is a book-length love poem and a moving act of personal testimony. But what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is Duffy’s refusal to simplify the contradictions of love and read its transformations—infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancor, separation, and grief—as either redemptive or destructive.This is a map of real love in...
January 18, 2014
What Becomes You
“”Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn,” Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. As he transforms from female to male and from teaching scientist to theatre performer, Link documents the extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal processes involved in a complete identity change.
Hilda Raz, a well-known feminist write...
January 14, 2014
Pokémon Pocket Comics: Black & White
“Humorous comics, Pokémon trivia, and fun puzzles based on the characters from the best-selling Pokémon Black and White video games!
A pocket-sized book brick jam-packed with four-panel comic strips featuring all the new Pokémon Black and White characters, Pokémon vital statistics, Pokémon trivia, Pokémon puzzles, and Pokémon fun quizzes!”
This book was shown to me repeatedly and then I finally gave in to reading it. While I am not a huge Pokémon fan now, I used to be. I stopped following the s...
January 9, 2014
Becoming Alec
“Alec always thought she was a lesbian. She got thrown out of her house for it as a teenager, in fact. But when she moves to Chicago she begins a journey of self- discovery that leads to a place that she never imagined possible. She discovers that she isn’t a lesbian at all….but a straight man.”
The basic plot of the book was one I could easily relate to. A hardworking person deals with never feeling right in their body, but tries to keep going. They think they figure it out when they realize...
