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A Literary Monster Mash: Cassie-la Discusses “Android Karenina” by Tolstoy...
Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters (Advanced Reader Copy) Release Date: June 8, 2010 Genre: Literary mash-up, steampunk, parody, humor, retelling, robots, aliens, holy shit WTF is going...
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An Epic Cat-astrophe: Cassie-la Hisses Her Disapproval of “The Meowmorphosis”...
The Meowmorphosis by Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook (Advanced Reader Copy) Release Date: May 10, 2011 Genre: Literary mash-up, absurdism, parody, retelling, fluffy kittens Rating: 2.8 out of 5 stars...
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It’s No Shakespeare: Cassie-la Soliloquizes About “Falling for Hamlet” by...
Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray Genre: Fiction, retelling, young adult, drama, well, I guess if Stephenie Meyer can get published Rating: 2.7 out of 5 stars Summary: In this retelling of...
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Post-Apocalyptic “Persuasion”: Cassie-la Explains “For Darkness Shows the...
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund Genre: Fiction, young adult, post-apocalyptic, dystopia, romance, retelling, I cried Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Summary: After a war sealed their islands...
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New Comic Book Day Roundup: October 3, 2012
In this post, from DC Comics: Before Watchmen: Rorschach #2, Image Comics: Hack/Slash #18, Vertigo: Fairest #8 and from Macmillan: A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel. It’s a nice hodgepodge this...
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Hot Off the Proverbial Presses: August 27, 2013
Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block Seventeen-year-old Penelope (Pen) has lost everything—her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother. Like a female Odysseus in search of...
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Stephanie is Fine with Not Seeing “Doon” for a Hundred Years
Doon by Carey Corp & Lorie Langdon Genre: YA fiction, fantasy, romance, Twilight Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars Summary: Veronica’s life pretty much sucks. Her dad abandoned her when she was 12, her...
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Hot Off the Proverbial Presses: September 3, 2013
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the...
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Around the Interwebs: Volume XXXIII
J.K. Rowling Will Be Penning a Harry Potter Spin-Off Film Based on Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them (via Jack’s Raging Bile Duct Zap2it) Since Warner Bros. loves making money they have a brand...
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Around the Interwebs: Volume XXXIV
Dark Horse Is Bringing “Firefly” Back in Comic Form Since They’re Running Out of “Buffy” Spin-offs (via The Mary Sue) Dark Horse Comics is taking over the reigns of yet another Joss Whedon property...
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Hot Off the Proverbial Presses: October 8, 2013
Longbourn by Jo Baker Pride and Prejudice was only half the story. If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them....
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Hot Off the Proverbial Presses: October 15, 2013
The Fall of the Hotel Dumort: The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson Magnus Bane watches the once-glamorous Hotel Dumort become something else altogether in 1970s New York City....
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Around the Interwebs: Volume XXXVI
Matt Smith is Your Singing and Dancing Patrick Bateman (via Kickstarter) If you missed our previous post about it, the novel about serial-killer/music lover Patrick Bateman, Bret Easton Ellis’ American...
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Hot Off the Proverbial Presses: October 22, 2013
Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales [edited] by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt The best writers of our generation retell the classics. Literature is filled with sexy, deadly, and downright...
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Hot Off the Proverbial Presses: November 5, 2013
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman When you haven’t had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen. If you’re living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn’t. But...
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My Year in Reading: Cassie-la’s 2013 Best of Reading List
Ho, ho, ho, merry 2014! NAILED IT! If you know me, you will know that the only New Year’s Resolutions I set for myself are reading based ones. If not, then you do now. Since 2008 when I started keeping...
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Hot Off the Proverbial Presses: January 28, 2014
Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie Jr. A bold and arresting story about the impossibility of love and the inevitability of grief by the acclaimed author of Everything Matters! Ron Currie,...
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Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here: Cassie-la Travels “The Ninth Circle” by...
The Ninth Circle by Brendan Deneen (Galley) Release Date: January 30, 2014 Genre: Fiction, retelling, horror, fantasy, the circus, taking the words freak and show to a whole new level Rating: 3.8 out...
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Hot Off the Proverbial Presses: March 18, 2014
The Course of True Love (And First Dates): The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood might fall in love—but first they have a first date. One of ten adventures in The Bane...
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The “Lizzie Bennet Diaries” Next Project is Going to Be Called “Frankenstein...
Pemberley Digital, the team who brought us The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved (not to mention whatever Welcome to Sanditon was) has announced their newest project Frankenstein M.D. That’s...
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