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Review: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi and Tress of the Emerald Sea

I think it's great that pirates are making a comeback. Unfortunately Sanderson types faster than I breathe so I'm behind on his stuff again...

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Review: Killers of the Flower Moon

I've learned a valuable lesson about getting stills for the movies I review so that my mugshot doesn't end up as the image for the preview I guess.

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REVIEW: Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

Unrelated note, but I wish that the mobile app didn’t make my portrait so enormous. Or maybe I wish that my portrait looked nicer.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem review

Wasn't really able to talk about this in my review, but the fact that some people are so up in arms about this movie's aesthetics makes it very clear to me that we need more "ugly" stuff in animation. Things have been too damn pretty lately!

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The News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, September 2, 1950

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Lawrence Daily Journal, Kansas, March 18, 1898

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something i never hear mentioned about cursed monkey's paws is that when the final finger curls up, you are then left with an angry monkey fist that proceeds to beat you to death

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A brief cultural history of crying while reading.

by Janet Manley

In the olden days, the popular crowd were devouring Pamela, and watching Marianne Dashwood getting teary over a sonnet (sense before sensibility)—the beginning of what became known as the “sentimental” novel, especially popular for and by among females in the 18th and 19th centuries, though traceable to 17th century poets.

T.S. Eliot argued that 16th and 17th century poets differed in that the latter were defined by a “dissociation of sensibility,” in the manner that their predecessors simply totted down the smells and sights of a given moment while “the (newer) poets revolted against the ratiocinative, the descriptive; they thought and felt by fits, unbalanced; they reflected.” They were “engaged in the task of trying to find the verbal equivalent for states of mind and feeling.”

In other words, they set out to write big feelings using ~technique~.

This was the beginning of sentimentalism, which proved very popular with audiences. In 2014, Pelagia Horgan reported a snippet of Richard Darnton’s accounting of the public response to the 1748 novel Clarissa:

“I verily believe I have shed a pint of tears,” one of Samuel Richardson’s admirers, Lady Bradshaigh, wrote to him.

The tears were a form of praise. The femaleness of response, though, became a negative.

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I have committed the ultimate betrayal and written about a movie before a book. But hey, Barbie was good enough to make it worthwhile.

Also, the objectively correct order to watch Barbenheimer is Oppenheimer, then Barbie.

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*In which the blogger ends up actually doing the thing which he named his account after as a joke five years ago*

In some sort of bizarre twist of fate, I now have a job where I will actually write book reviews for an actual print newspaper. I think I named this blog back in 2019 or something, which makes all of this weirder. Obviously I have some sort of psychic power.  Anyways, I’ll probably post links to my reviews when they’re done, as well as any additional thoughts that can’t fit into the newspaper for the books that I read. They’ll be the sandwich crusts of my critique sandwiches. Or exclusive content, that sounds better. The first two books that I’m gonna be reviewing are “Once Upon A Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller” By Oliver Darkshire and “The Secret Book of Flora Lea” by Patti Callahan Henry. There are a lot of interesting parallels between these books that I could never have imagined when I grabbed them from the local library, lol. Keep an eye out for those I guess!

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You could say... The book is the Crime and the Punishment... for the reader! *rimshot* *gunshot*

I finally got to the Crime part of Crime and Punishment. Not sure how long it’s going to take for me to get to the Punishment part but there’s a daunting amount of book left to read here.

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“Oh, base characters! They love, and it comes out as hate...”

- Crime and Punishment

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I finally got to the Crime part of Crime and Punishment. Not sure how long it’s going to take for me to get to the Punishment part but there’s a daunting amount of book left to read here.

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Man, what if I actually reviewed books on here. That would be crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once—*gunshot*

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what i’m gonna do

book reviews, dude.