Transitive Verve

Valentine's Day is coming, and if you happen to be unattached, you may be looking forward to spending some time with your favorite book boyfriend. Hell, I'm even in a relationship myself, and I will probably end up spending Valentine's Day with a book. (Though, this is because we choose not to celebrate, so don't feel bad for me or anything.) I thought I would take some time to make a list of some of my favorite dudes. These are the guys who make me swoon every time I read, who are just too precious cinnamon-roll-y for the real world, but whom I love all the same. Note: I fully acknowledge that this post is absolutely heteronormative. Also note: For any teenaged YA guys that I choose, that crush is coming from Teenaged Me. Or I'm projecting them forward into adulthood. I am not literally imagining mid-30s me with a teenage boyfriend, because that would be Not Okay. Also ALSO note: Spoiler warnings for all the books listed below. There were MANY I could...

I wish the movie had been as awesome as Shai's hair. *Spoilers for the book and movie. You've been warned. This review assumes that you're familiar with the events of the book series.* Okay... so... Okay... There's no easy way for me to say this: When I first saw the trailer and sneak peeks for Insurgent , mostly I was thinking, "What? That wasn't in the book. What the heck? That wasn't in the book either," and so on and so forth. I suspected that they'd changed things even more than they had for the first movie. And therefore, I didn't go into this movie with high hopes. I didn't go into this movie with high hopes . Let that sentence sink in, as I tell you that I was disappointed . Like, my hopes weren't even high to begin with, and I still leaned over to my friends halfway through and was like, "This is kind of AWFUL, isn't it?" and was met with agreement. Screenwriters, did we even read the same book? Di...

And here are my smattering of reviews for book-to-movie adaptations! Thoughts on the 2011 adaptation of  Jane Eyre Thoughts on the movie adaptation for  The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Thoughts on the movies for  The Hunger Games ,  Catching Fire , and  Mockingjay Part 1 . Thoughts on the movies for  New Moon ,  Eclipse ,  Breaking Dawn Part 1 ,  and  Breaking Dawn, Part 2 Thoughts on the movie for  Divergent Thoughts on the movie for  The Fault in Our Stars

This is my new book blog! How exciting! And what better way to kick off something new than to... dig up old stuff :) Because I want them tagged here, I'm going to link to my book-related reviews and things from my personal blog in this post, just so they can show up in my archives somehow. Because Blogger only lets me have 200 characters' worth of tags at a time, here is part 1 of 2 of my bookish archives, starting with my book reviews: Me effusing about Pride and Prejudice  for its 200th anniversary Thoughts on Vampire Academy  by Richelle Mead Thoughts on Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl  and Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Things I actually enjoyed about the Twilight  series And then a link list of Twilight  snark that I also enjoy :) Thoughts on the mangas based on Gail Carriger's first 3 Parasol Protectorate  books, and the first 4 books of JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood  books Thoughts on Gail Carriger's short st...