angelicmobster8 | Entries tagged with non-fiction

Book under 100 pages: Grumpy Cat Book
Read Aloud: The Catkins Diet (read to my cats)
Middle Grade: Blubber by Judy Blume
Mental Illness: The Crooked Heart of Mercy by Billie Livingston (First Reads win)
Book over 500 pages: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Horror: Book of the Damned by Tanith Lee
Read Book/Watch Movie: Under the Skin by Michael Faber (book was really good, movie was okay)
Audiobook: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (the category is supposed to be audiobooks that won an award, but I can't download certain books yet)
Book set before 1900s: Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund (a fave)
Non-superhero comic published recently: Rat Queens
Post-Apocalyptic and/or Dystopia: Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Essays: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Notable Mentions of non-challenge books:

Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

Emiko Superstar by Mariko Tamaki

The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

The Dublin Murder Squad series

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Black London: Life Before Emancipation by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Current Mood: okay

Memoir: Rebel Heart: An American Rock 'n' Roll Journey (2001) by Bebe Buell w/ Victor Bokris

decent trash memoir

I didn't like how flippant she was about rock stars screwing teenagers

The rest are not part of the challenge.

Goodreads win: The Girl Who Slept With God (2015) by Val Brelinski

I really liked it

will be released on August 4

Goodreads win: Let Me Die in His Footsteps (2015) by Lori Roy

Also really liked it

creepy and lovely

Cat's Eye (1988) by Margaret Atwood

so good

so familiar

These just keep getting shorter and shorter.

Current Mood: okay
Current Music: Willow Smith ft. SZA - 9

Trilogy (3): MaddAddam (2013) by Margaret Atwood. Really liked it. Am really curious about how they will handle the tv series.

Not a part of the challenge: Let's Go to Colasanti's (1999) by Jane Buttery

Book that you owned but have never read: Trail of the Wolf (1993) by RD Lawrence. One of those books that have been in the house forever.

Not a part of the challenge: The Casual Vacancy (2012) by JK Rowling. Daaaaamn. She went all out.

Book based solely on it's cover: The Ghost Orchid (2006) by Carol Goodman.

Can't really write right now. I'm just

Current Mood: bleh

Not Part of the Challenge: The Conditions of Love (2008?) by Morishima Akiko

My first manga. I didn't get most of it, because I didn't realize until the next one that I wasn't reading the panels in the right order.

Also my first yuri...

Not Part of the Challenge: Lovesick Dead (2007?) by Junji Ito

Nice and creepy

The translation may have been a bit clunky, I dunno. It seemed unnatural for them to be saying "the Intersections Pretty Boy" everytime they talked about him.

Translation: The Descent into Hell (2006) by Dante, translated by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1949

Realized too late that it was an abridged version of Inferno. I'll listen to The Divine Comedy on audiobook one day.

Dante only fainted twice, which is impressive considering all of the shit he saw

"So gaped as one I saw there, from the chin / Down to the fart-hole split as by a cleaver" see what I mean?

Based on a true story: So Young to Die (1993) by Candice F. Ransom

Originally bought it because the illustration of Hannah seemed so badass

I think this category is for narrative nonfiction or something like Picnic At Hanging Rock. This read more like a wiki article.

Book your mom loves: The Secret (2006) by Rhonda Byrne

Don't get me started

TW: rape
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Current Mood: okay
Current Music: The Four Tops - The Same Old Song

Book you started and never finished: Hatchet (1987) by Gary Paulsen

at least I think I never got to finish it in grade 8

Not part of the challenge: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou

My copy is an retired library/first edition. It is well worn and has student notes in it.

Not part of the challenge: Springtime Begins in March (1968) by Jean Little

Book that was made into a movie: Howl's Moving Castle (1986) by Diana Wynne Jones

Originally, I was going to use Black Beauty, then I changed my mind to Fugitive Pieces, then this.

Need to see the movie again

Not part of the challenge: Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness (2006) by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Non-fiction: Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film (2006) by Eric G. Wilson

He's sort of snobby, but it has some interesting stuff in it. I am putting some of the bibliography on my to-read list.

This used to be Other Sister's book. I don't think she got much out of it, I doubt she saw most of those movies.

He used the word crepuscular alot. It's now one of my favourite words.

He seems extra anti-Tom Cruise, but he had a point about Vanilla Sky.

Filmography for Secret Cinema (other movies were mentioned through out the book though):
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Current Mood: tired

Book more than 100 years old: 12 Years a Slave (1853) by Solomon Northup

You can read it here. It's on Librivox, but I didn't like that dudes voice for this.

Book with a Love Triangle: East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck

Not as love triangle-y (Cal/Abra/Aron) as I thought it would be. I made this assumption based on the Kazan movie, which I saw forever ago. I guess there was sort of a love triange between Cathy, Adam and Charles.

Right off the bat, he's gives us racism (against Native Americans). I was like, gawd John, couldn't wait until I was more invested in the book?

Then he also says that women become prostitutes because they're lazy. Whatever John.

I really liked Cathy, even though she was sort of written in a sexist way sometimes. Gillian Flynn said something about the need for more female psychopaths in fiction, Jennifer Lawrence is supposed to play Cathy in an upcoming movie. Jo Van Fleet and Jane Seymour have played her in the past.

"Goddamn the string beans!"

What's up with all the boob description, John? Describing teenage Abra as "well breasted", wtf?

The Steinbeck home is lovely.

Mystery/Thriller: The Blue Last (2001) by Martha Grimes

It's the 17th book in a series, but I don't think it matters

Carole-anne? What a disgusting name.

The bookstore sounds lovely. lovelyloveloylfjdfhdkhfdj

I liked this book (although the chapters about the paintings were kind of bleh), but the ending was too abrupt. I understand a cliffhanger, but this one made me think my copy of the book was messed up. I have the 18th book, so hopefully that clears some things up.

Short Stories: by Vladimir Nabokov

Still reading this, there are over 60 stories. I probably should have picked a different one. It's fine though, I'll read 2 stories after finishing a book. I should be done by the summer.

WTF happened in "Wingstroke"? Was it really an angel or a flying Russian Yeti? Whaaaaaaaat.

I'd hate to add more to my 50 Shades tag, but Roxane Gay wrote this article back when she read the books. It's really good and probably wouldn't make the women who defend the series feel bad.

Current Mood: okay

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