Original Review You know, you read about how agents are hungry for new ideas, new writers, for diverse voices, for innovative styles. And then something like this comes along and gets popular and you wonder how much bullshit that is. Hey, I understand. I want to write something that sells. But not like this. I can think of very few redeeming things about this book, and they are mere sprinkles. My hate is nowhere near the Jackie Morse Kessler type, but everything about this book feels like a step backwards. The characters are uninteresting and fall into the same tropes as Twilight – girl hates nice guy, then likes him. The…
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The Books I Read: January 2015 – February 2015
Joss Whedon: The Biography by Amy Pascale I’d been looking for a book about Joss Whedon since December. There had been a few biographies, but then I saw this one was about to come out. It looked the most official — even having a foreword by Nathan Fillion — so I waited. It becomes little more than an IMDB page after a while. I don’t read many biographies, so maybe this is what they’re like. I wanted to know more about his family life or his writing life, I didn’t need to know what happened with Firefly or The Avengers. I already follow the guy. I already knew that. Except…