Category: book review

• [YT][posting] Litbytes Review – “Carmilla” by LeFanu

  dappled-things

  March 9, 2020

  book review, culture, literary critique, literature, nonfiction

  carmilla, dark feminine, le fanu, sheridan le fanu

• [booktube][YT] LitBytes Review – World War Z by Max Brooks

  

  A short non-spoiler review about World War Z, an amazing post-apocalyptic zombie “documentary”.

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  June 20, 2019

  book review, culture, literary critique, literature, video

  book review, book tube, booktube, horror, litbytes, literary critique, literature, litwits, max brooks, postapocalyptic, world war z, zombie, zombies

• [book review][YT] LitBytes Review – A Wrinkle in Time by L’Engle

  

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  June 17, 2019

  book review, culture, literature, video

  a wrinkle in time, booktube, children’s literature, fantasy, featured, litbytes, litwits, review video, youtube

• [review] X-wing: Wraith Squadron (Aaron Allston)

  

  As a fair, broad-minded officer, I should ignore that. But as a Corellian, of course, I’ll manage some sort of revenge. -Wedge Antilles, p. 6 Lots of people talk about Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy endlessly, but in my opinion, it does other fantastic Star Wars books and novelists a disservice. Out of the X-Wing Series written…

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  December 24, 2018

  book review, literary critique, literature, nonfiction, review

  ackbar, book review, featured, legends, new republic, review, science fantasy, science fiction, star wars, star wars extended universe, wedge antilles, wes janson, wraith squadron, x-wing

• [fanfic rec] Say Goodbye To Yesterday

  

  Title: Say Goodbye To YesterdayAuthor: melonbutterflyStatus: COMPLETE [4 Chapters – 112,000 words approx!!!]Rating: R/MaturePairing: FrostironSummary: The day after the invasion Tony wakes up and his tower is intact again; everything is exactly the way it was before this whole mess went down. It doesn’t take him long to catch up but he can’t figure out…

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  December 13, 2018

  book review, fanfiction, interesting stuff, literary critique, review

  fanfic, fanfic rec, fanfiction, fanfiction writing, frostiron, loki, loki fandom, loki fanfiction, slashfic, thor

• [fanfic rec] Do Or Do Not, There Is No Try

  

  Title: Do Or Do Not, There Is No TryAuthor: andquitefrankly, Tumblr: gruvvulousgloveStatus: COMPLETE [38 Chapters]Rating: R/MaturePairing: FrostironSummary: Avengers High School AU. Loki’s a nerd. Not just any kind of nerd. But a huge nerd. With a heart of lead. Why Tony Stark has taken an interest in him is beyond anyone’s imagination. Maybe he wants…

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  December 7, 2018

  book review, fanfiction, literary critique

  critique, fanfic, fanfiction, fanfiction writing, literary critique, loki, loki fandom, loki fanfiction, review

• [opinion] What Star Wars Disney Can Learn From TV Tokyo’s Boruto

  

  [Warning: Will Contain Spoilers!] Something that is hard for us to recognize nowadays is that the literature we call “classic”, such as Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales or Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, were, during their times, popular forms of culture. With that perspective in mind, when we look at current stories, myths, and cultural products, we have to…

  dappled-things

  September 18, 2018

  book review, culture, literary critique, literature, nonfiction, review, thought piece

  boruto, disney, disney star wars, featured, naruto, naruto shippuuden, star wars, the force awakens, the last jedi

• [review] Why Science Is Wrong …About Almost Everything (Alex Tsakiris)

  

  Recently, there has been an academic and social backlash towards the elitism of the scientific community as new slogans have arisen. “Science is a construct”, taken at face value, is one of those popular buzzwords that should – and must – be brought into question. A better statement to theorize is: the trajectory of current…

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  June 15, 2018

  book review, culture, literature, nonfiction, thought piece

  alex tsakiris, atheism, consciousness, culture, modernism, philosophy, postmodernity, religion, science, skeptico, social construct, social theory, technology

• “According to the Romance Writers of America, romance fiction generated $1.37 billion sales in 2008. The romance genre has the single largest share of the fiction market. More people buy romances than detective novels, thrillers, science fiction, or science nonfiction. At least 74.8 million people read a romance novel in 2008… and more  than 90 percent of these readers are women. To put these numbers in perspective, about 100 million men in the United States and Canada accessed online porn in 2008 – just slightly more than the number of romance readers. However, though women don’t pay for porn, they happily pay for romance. Accurate sales figures are impossible to come by in the adult industry, but there is little  doubt that online pornography generated less revenue in 2008 than romance publishing.”

  -Ogas and Goddam, A Billion Wicked Thoughts, (87-8).

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  March 17, 2018

  book review, nonfiction, quote

  porn, readership, romance, romance industry, romance novels, sales

• [review] A Billion Wicked Thoughts

  

  WARNING: Adult material ahead! “The sexual brain is guaranteed to upset the politically correct, the socially conservative, and just about everybody in between.” I chuckled over Ogas and Gaddam’s warning in their preface to A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships. It was an amused chuckle because I was excited…

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  March 17, 2018

  book review, nonfiction, review, thought piece

  a billion wicked thoughts, biology, book review, desire, female desire, goddam, male desire, ogas, sex