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9 years ago @ Clever Manka - Friday open thread · 0 replies · +2 points

Sabrina the Teenage Witch! They have all seasons on Amazon Prime :)

9 years ago @ Clever Manka - Thursday link dump · 1 reply · +7 points

Ahh thank you @clevermanka! The site looks great :) Also, hello everyone!!

9 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +9 points

breccia, I also started writing again thanks to the toast!! Looking forward to seeing what you write :)

9 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +5 points

I have been listening to my Loreena McKennitt Pandora station for days now. I will have "Star of County Down" in my head for weeks but it is worth it.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Brush Off: The Ear... · 0 replies · +15 points

I...still wear it occasionally?? It's *almost* black but I just think it looks cool...however the older I get the less I care about what makeup I am supposed to or not supposed to be wearing

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 2 replies · +6 points

I read those!! Do you remember the trippy one where Jessica gets stuck in the fairy tale world at the theme park? And all the theme park characters turn real??

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 0 replies · +8 points

Dark Lord of Derkholm is SO GOOD, I love the way it sends up every fantasy trope while also having a real story of its own

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 1 reply · +15 points

I am a English teacher! And my favorite book to teach is Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie; also, James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" and August Wilson's "Fences". I also had a lot of fun teaching Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" and also Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Sylvia Plath.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 1 reply · +12 points

Have we talked about Nicola Griffith's Ammonite here yet? It's about an anthropologist who goes to a planet where a virus killed all the men and the women are somehow reproducing.

I would like someone to yell about it with, because as good as Griffith's prose and worldbuilding and characters are, I think she is just pretty bad at plot, and promises all sorts of things that are never delivered, and I keep reading anyway because it's so good and then I get frustrated because we've spent fifty pages sitting in a hut beating a drum and skinning rabbits. I had the same problem with Hild!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Open Thread! · 1 reply · +9 points

Should I give it another chance? I started it, and was so annoyed with a) the narrator's woe-is-me pretension when his life seemed basically fine and b) the complete lack of female characters other than a single one who is only seen through the eyes of the male narrator.

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