Truth of the Divine (Noumena #2) by Lindsay Ellis This is the second book by Lindsay Ellis, famed (now ex-)YouTube video essayist, which continues the story of Cora–a young woman who made first contact with a set of very uncommunicative aliens. One in particular (Ampersand) and she have some kind of bond that’s hard to explain but is essentially love-based-on-shared-traumatic experience. Well, in the second one, the aliens are just as uncommunicative to the point of maddening. Don’t get me wrong, the beginning is strong. Cora is experiencing some severe PTSD from the first book, having A) failed to save a baby alien B) gone through this horrific adventure of…
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The Books I Read: July – August 2020
Part of Your World: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell So there’s this “Twisted Tale” series from Disney books that’s essentially all about screwing the heroines out of their happy ending and making the story “what if” instead. I don’t know why Disney’s trying to do this. To reach a mature audience you have to make everything grimdark and miserable? The first series was villain-focused with works like “The Beast Within” and “Poor Unfortunate Souls” and then a YA adventure of Disneyland crossed with “they only come out at night”. I hated all of them passionately. I did not hate this. In fact, I kind of like it. It’s like…
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No SOPA Radio
I don’t know much about making political opinions — the details are too complicated for me to process in my state in life. I’ve got to worry about kids, wife, work, and how to do anything than to find out how a bill works and who’s working with it. But people smarter and savvier than me are against SOPA (Stop Internet Piracy Act), a bill currently rattling around in Congress. That includes everyone under Doug Walker, Lindsay Ellis, The Spoony One, Hannah Harto, and just about every video I’ve posted from YouTube. I wish I could do something that’s a bit less “out there”, but they’ve convinced me because I…
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Things I Like: The Nostalgia Chick & Her Friends
The Nostalgia Chick (a.k.a. Lindsay Ellis) is one of the vloggers on That Guy With the Glasses. Yes, yes, I know I talk about that site too much, but hear me out. She’s more than another snarky deadpanner who criticizes 80’s movies. See, to understand her, you must understand her origins. She was taken into the site as the female equivalent of the Nostalgia Critic who, due to his penis, couldn’t otherwise target those female-centric blasts from the past. So she started with videos like “Labyrinth”, “Thumbelina”, “She-Ra”, and “The Babysitters Club”. Her specialty is compare-and-contrast, like “Cruel Intentions vs. Les Liaisons Dangerouseses” and why “When Harry Met Sally” works…
