Uncreated Conscience

Last night Bear and I went to his friends’ apartment for a potluck dinner and an evening of board games. After the standard games of Taboo, Apples to Apples, and Dirty Minds, we decided to try our hand at a weird game called Quelf, which is possibly a game one should play when one is [...]

Not that I didn’t like What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Bludell but… ..holy hell did The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart blow my mind. In my opinion, this book is the more deserving of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Not to belittle Ms. Blundell. Just… [...]

Am too sleepy for a coherent review at the moment, but I just finished reading The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness and all I can say is: WHERE IS MY NEXT BOOK?????? This is the worst cliffhanger I’ve ever read since The Subtle Knife. GAAAAAH. Will review this one properly once I’ve [...]

A bit late, I admit, but things are a little busy in Chez Jones, what with the Sacramento Joneses down in sunny southern California for a visit. New Year’s passed in typical Jones family fashion with my mother and grandmother making 떡국 (tteok guk — beef soup with rice cakes except in my case it’s [...]

To this all I can say is “What? WHAT?” Who on earth thinks Phantom of the Opera 2: Love Never Dies is a good idea? I’m horribly offended, really, as a formerly obsessed 12-year-old and as the currently-shamefacedly-disdainful-but-still-kind-of-obsessed 23-year-old I am now. The reason the original musical had its punch (for me, at least) was [...]