Top Ten Nonfiction Books That Will Change Your Life LRR, April 23, 2014February 8, 2025 These ten books, I can say with confidence, have changed my life in some way, and they will probably change your life too. Or, maybe not, because I’m me and you aren’t. But I’m fairly certain that these books will make you think about nonfiction, or English boarding schools, or… Continue Reading
*—Top 10 Romantic Movie Lines for an Awful Poem—* LRR, February 26, 2014February 8, 2025 Each verse gets worse– a last-ditch effort to disseminate some quality teen angst before Valentine’s Month is over: I want you to draw me like one of your French girls But I am nobody’s little weasel. They say bread is life. And I bake bread, bread, bread…. Continue Reading
Ten Fantastic Examples of Queer Person-of-Color Literature LRR, February 12, 2014February 8, 2025 In my experience as a student of the public school system, English literature departments seldom offer texts in the curriculum that deviate from a white, middle-to-upper class, Eurocentric (and very often male) voice. Students like me are taught authors like Shakespeare and Dickens, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald and Faulkner. The poets… Continue Reading
Top Ten Free Visual Novels, Huh What? LRR, February 12, 2014February 8, 2025 The vast majority of the time when I bring up visual novels to someone in conversation, they have no idea what I am talking about. On one level, this floors me. On another level, I expect it. Visual Novels have never been particularly main stream, not even in their country… Continue Reading