Last weekend I watched Fallen Idol. The premise was a young boy who admires his family’s butler, who tells exotic stories about Africa. Until one night, he witnesses (or thinks he does) the butler murdering his wife because the butler always did it. The little snot spreads rumors of the supposed killing having the police […]
Alice is your typical teen-aged girl. She worries that she is too fat. She wants a boyfriend: “I wish I were popular and beautiful and wealthy and talented.” She frequently makes resolutions in her diary to do better in school, work toward a better relationship with her mother, and lose weight. Her life changes when […]
Snow in Summer, (which is actually the poor girl’s name) begins with the burial site of her mother and stillborn brother. Her father is distraught, and any happiness Snow may have had is over with her widowed father going into a five year depression. Every evening, Daddy goes to his wife’s grave site and one […]
Snow Whyte and the Queen of Mayhem is an interesting take on the classic Snow White because it is told from the Magic Mirror’s perspective, looking over Snow White like an overprotective Father. As a baby Snow White, or Cat as she is known in this rendition flees from the Evil Queen with her oh […]
Fairest was a cross between Singin’ in the Rain and Snow White. Debbie Reynolds must lip-sync for a silent picture star and with the transition to talkies her annoying voice would ruin her career. Of course, Jean Hagen is exposed as a fraud and Debbie is hailed. The only difference is that Aza snags a […]
I loved Snow White when I was little, I dressed up as her on a regular basis, held Snow White themed birthday parties and learned how to work a VCR (yes I’m that old) and when I wasn’t watching it, I could recite it word for word. Okay, so I was obsessed with Snow White […]
I loved the Janie books when I was younger. I first read The Face on the Milk Carton when I was 10 (so 1995) but it was first published in 1990. Notice that I said 1990. Caroline B. Cooney released the fifth and last Janie book this year, Janie is now 20 and in college […]
Splintered has a pretty cover. That’s about the only good thing I can say about it. Splintered is the story of Alyssa, the great-great-great granddaughter of Alice Liddell who has totally fucked over any future female relations with her trip down the rabbit hole. Alyssa’s mother Allison is currently in an asylum, dressing in the […]
Last week I was describing the Lunar series to my mom. Cinder description: “So, Cinder is futuristic with Cinderella qualities. There’s an empress who wants to control all and sets her three-year old niece on fire in her crib to get her out-of-the-way. She has like 4th degree burns but is saved from the fire and […]
I usually don’t go for books that involve terrorist bombs I find them overdone; and usually once I see those two words on the back cover I set them down. But for some reason I decided to keep My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece in my hand. Rose was killed in a mass bombing when […]