Kai’s Reviews > Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears > Status Update

The Printer’s Daughter was really touching!

Brother Bear was a little simple and I’m not sure it has anything to offer me besides a few lovely images.

Naked Little Men: eh, i wanted to like it, but it was just a customs flip of defining rude and polite...

Roach in Loafers: Sometimes it's just nice to see everything click beautifully into place with no sinister catches, though I don't love how the main character lost his name in the fulfilling of the plan.

The Crossing: truly a poor choice for right before bed. Trapped in your own mind but unable to put a finger on what's wrong? Gah... I've got to find something else to read or else be resigned to crying myself to sleep.

This Century of Sleep or, Briar Rose Beneath the Sea was a poem that made me turn of orientation lock and had only one good line: "The wind peels back the waves like linen sheets and sucks upon the juices of the sea as if it were a grape."

Summer Wind: tragic in a way that always hits me hardest--separation by time