Month: February 2014

Test post

Sarah Bringhurst Familia

Am I still getting annoying viagra ads injected into my blog? Here’s some extra text to make sure this post is long enough to check:

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin… Read more

Insurgent, Allegiant, Legend, Prodigy, One Light Still Shines, Children of Men, and For Darkness Shows the Stars

Sarah Bringhurst Familia

What do you think about the proclivity of YA authors lately for choosing one-word titles? Did it start with or predate the Twilight craze? I think it’s kind of fun, but will probably have a fairly short shelf life (sort of like how clever one-word URL’s are pretty much unobtainable nowadays).

Insurgent (Divergent, #2)Insurgent by Veronica Roth
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book even more than Divergent, I think. It was a little action-packed for me, but there were some introspective moments too. Roth portrayed the effects of trauma on Tris very well. Although the idea that imprisonment, torture, and serving as the subject of experiments with hallucination-inducing drugs was effective therapy for said trauma is a little strange.… Read more