<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818</id><updated>2011-11-27T20:04:19.186-05:00</updated><category term='Introduction'/><category term='LISA MCMANN'/><category term='LAUREN HENDERSON'/><category term='KAORI YUKI'/><category term='lol'/><category term='BRIAN WOOD'/><category term='JAY ASHER'/><category term='DAVID LEVITHAN'/><category term='AMY TAN'/><category term='the first season of Heroes kicks ass'/><category term='new'/><category term='pig-puppets are FEARLESS'/><category term='TONY DITERLIZZI'/><category term='7TH GRADE JOKES FTW'/><category term='JOHN GREEN'/><category term='UGH'/><category term='BECKY CLOONAN'/><category term='Neil Gaiman can kill people with his brain'/><category term='BARRY LYGA'/><category term='STEPHENIE MEYER'/><category term='HOLLY BLACK'/><title type='text'>the incandescent corner</title><subtitle type='html'>approximately 1.3 cubic metres of illuminated oxygen</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-5400846654732650175</id><published>2009-10-19T14:48:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T16:32:02.219-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new'/><title type='text'>WELL, THAT WAS NICELY HANDLED.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_o2ifYntBBEQ/Sty1ZLWfM6I/AAAAAAAAANI/NCKjdseCB5Q/s1600-h/Picture+16.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394385897831478178" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_o2ifYntBBEQ/Sty1ZLWfM6I/AAAAAAAAANI/NCKjdseCB5Q/s320/Picture+16.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 163px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha, so obviously the new layout did absolutely nothing to motivate me to review books. But, perhaps a new site will give me that final push!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's right, &lt;a href="http://synaereses.blogspot.com/"&gt;new blog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1610435"&gt;new books&lt;/a&gt;, similar layout. Because I am lazy and cheap, similar reviews will be posted on &lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1610435?shelf=read"&gt;GoodReads&lt;/a&gt;  (which is seriously amazing, get on it) and my readerly &lt;a href="http://synaereses.livejournal.com/"&gt;livejournal&lt;/a&gt;. I might even cross over to &lt;a href="http://synaereses.wordpress.com/"&gt;WordPress&lt;/a&gt;. Oh, crap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since I know you were wondering why this blog is virtually non-existent. All zero people who read this blog. YES.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-5400846654732650175?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/5400846654732650175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=5400846654732650175&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/5400846654732650175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/5400846654732650175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2009/10/well-that-was-nicely-handled.html' title='WELL, THAT WAS NICELY HANDLED.'/><author><name>the magician's niece</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_o2ifYntBBEQ/S0QJLh_fXCI/AAAAAAAACxc/F7OiYxuOAPw/S220/674222.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_o2ifYntBBEQ/Sty1ZLWfM6I/AAAAAAAAANI/NCKjdseCB5Q/s72-c/Picture+16.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-8607052507715779826</id><published>2009-01-30T17:13:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-30T17:14:48.203-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new'/><title type='text'>BRAND NEW COLONY</title><content type='html'>This new layout will hopefully pave way for new reviews! YAY!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-8607052507715779826?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/8607052507715779826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=8607052507715779826&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/8607052507715779826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/8607052507715779826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2009/01/brand-new-colony.html' title='BRAND NEW COLONY'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-2016802762319639958</id><published>2008-10-21T15:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T15:31:59.271-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='STEPHENIE MEYER'/><title type='text'>BREAKING DAWN - STEPHENIE MEYER (REMIXED!)</title><content type='html'>A slightly more serious review.**&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know how in the paper for the movie reviews they have that little man who represents how you would feel if you went to the movie? The best is when he's standing up in his chair and clapping the crap out of himself; great is when he just stands and claps; average is when he sits and claps; slightly-boring is when he sits; then he falls asleep, which means the movie is either really quiet OR REALLY FUCKING BORING.&lt;br /&gt;Then, one day, I saw an empty chair.*&lt;br /&gt;Breaking Dawn was, is, and always will be an Empty Chair Book.&lt;br /&gt;But I'll give it one star because it did lead to some very insightful discussions about vampires and how EXACTLY they make babies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;ATTACK OF THE MUTANT SPERM!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lol sex. :3&lt;br /&gt;Also, there was a complete lack of GAY in all of these books. WHAT KIND OF 'NOVEL' IS THIS?!!?!&lt;br /&gt;I think I've been reading too much slash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SIRIUS/REMUS 4EVER!!!!!!1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*I think it wsa for that movie wiht Jesica Simpson. Figures.&lt;br /&gt;**I just wrote a new one on GoodReads, which is quite dandy, thank you Medeia who I have actually never really spoken to or met but I feel closer to you already. GO TEAM.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-2016802762319639958?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/2016802762319639958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=2016802762319639958&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/2016802762319639958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/2016802762319639958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/10/breaking-dawn-stephenie-meyer-remixed.html' title='BREAKING DAWN - STEPHENIE MEYER (REMIXED!)'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-4274972378213324632</id><published>2008-10-18T20:24:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T15:54:24.883-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JOHN GREEN'/><title type='text'>PAPER TOWNS - JOHN GREEN</title><content type='html'>Note: Picture coming soon...&lt;br /&gt;Second Note: I got Sad Margo. Figures. What 'bout choo? &lt;---trying to soun dlike Stan lol***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel kind of cheap posting the same reviews on GoodReads. o___O&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honestly, though, I think this is John Green's best. I read Looking for Alaska and was fucking sobbing, I read An Abundance of Katherines and was actually snorting with laughter.&lt;br /&gt;But then I read Paper Towns.&lt;br /&gt;I laughed, I cried, I fell in love.*&lt;br /&gt;Similar to his other books, Paper Towns has a quirky (and often lovably-nerdy) male protagonist, an equally if not more so strong female counterpart (see? not sexist.), and an addictive plot that keeps you hooked up to and past the last page. It has crazy people, boring people, and people who left normal behind a long, long time ago --for better or for worse.&lt;br /&gt;As John Green said in his video, this book is about how we create ideas of what we think people are or should be, and how if we look just a little past our expectations and supposed perfection, we can see the reality of the picture and know that what we love and what we wanted to love are two very, very different things.&lt;br /&gt;...from GoodReads...**&lt;br /&gt;Quentin is searching for Margo Roth Spiegelman. Or, more accurately, his idea of Margo Roth Spiegelman. Margo, however (writing Margo Roth Spiegelman over and over is very tiring!), has recognised that the way they see each other is far from realistic; they've both created unattainable images of perfection, which, in a way, they keep hoping will be true.Complete with Omnictionary, catfish, breaking, entering, and quite literally tons of awesome, Paper Towns just might be that one book you want to take with you to that desert island you happen to be relocating to&lt;br /&gt;*I also realised that I have this problem where I always fall in love with fictional characters and not, um, real people. Read: Margo Roth Spiegelman, Desdemona (I spent the entire 7th grade coming up with Tridecalogisms. No. Fucking. Joke. And, um, Charlie Eppes. :3)&lt;br /&gt;**In my defence I have a migraine that hurts like being repeatedly punched in the same tender spot again and again except IN MY BRAIN. FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKKK.&lt;br /&gt;***lolololololololololol that word makes me crack up.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-4274972378213324632?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/4274972378213324632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=4274972378213324632&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/4274972378213324632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/4274972378213324632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/10/paper-towns-john-green.html' title='PAPER TOWNS - JOHN GREEN'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-6288223854383486472</id><published>2008-10-18T20:24:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-30T15:55:08.648-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the first season of Heroes kicks ass'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pig-puppets are FEARLESS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Neil Gaiman can kill people with his brain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='7TH GRADE JOKES FTW'/><title type='text'>THE WOLVES IN THE WALL - NEIL GAIMAN</title><content type='html'>Goodreads aka my life describes The Wolves in the Walls as 'terrifying'. I am frightened very, very, VERY easily (read: orcs. x___X) and this book was in no way horrific. However, I suppose it qualifies as a 'picture book' and is supposedly geared towards 5 year olds (maybe...?) and I supose they might be slightly frightened.&lt;br /&gt;Just a little.&lt;br /&gt;Honestly, how scared can you be when you have a pig-puppet by your side.&lt;br /&gt;THAT'S RIGHT. YOU CAN'T BE. Having a pig-puppet makes you like Peter Petrelli and you end up soaking up all the fearless power the pig-puppet exudes.&lt;br /&gt;I am being completely serious. &lt;--- not sarcasm. SIRIUSLY.*&lt;br /&gt;"If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over." But when the people come out of the walls, IT'S EVEN MORE OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I got lead posioning from my face paint. I slightly resemble chessboard!barbie from A Game of You. Go me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*This is honestly never going to stop being funny.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-6288223854383486472?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/6288223854383486472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=6288223854383486472&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/6288223854383486472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/6288223854383486472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/10/wolves-in-wall-neil-gaiman.html' title='THE WOLVES IN THE WALL - NEIL GAIMAN'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-4416051264127648256</id><published>2008-10-18T20:20:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-01-19T18:27:41.316-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UGH'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='AMY TAN'/><title type='text'>THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER</title><content type='html'>The Bonesetter's Daughter is about Ruth and her relationship wither her mother and her past and her mother's (and mother's family's) past. The book is very dramatic, but not in a fake way; LuLing (Ruth's mother) has a very big personality, but it's still believable (unlike, I believe, he opera). LuLing's 'guardian', Precious Auntie, pushes the envelope between fantasy and fiction, but LuLing and Ruth's response to Precious Auntie make it real.&lt;br /&gt;The Bonesetter's Daughter has been made into an opera, and while opera is appealing to some people, I'm not a really big fan. The plot of the opera veers so far from the plot of the book, that it was almost a sort of Alternate Universe performance with the same characters. The book is about family, history, acceptance, change, and love, but all set in a believable context. The opera was drama! and pain! and not to much joy. While there is plenty of pain and sorrow in the book, it has resolution. In the end, the daughter is able to understand the mother, and they are able to reconcile and reflect. While the opera does show conflict, it has a more fantastical resolution that doesn't give the same effect as the novel.&lt;br /&gt;I was not a very big fan of this book and don't really feel like putting a lot of effort into the review.&lt;br /&gt;Suck it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ps pica l8r i r 2 lazy nowz. &lt;-----Oh my god that was so painful to write. The punctuation made it less...painful. o.O&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-4416051264127648256?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/4416051264127648256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=4416051264127648256&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/4416051264127648256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/4416051264127648256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/10/bonesetters-daughter.html' title='THE BONESETTER&apos;S DAUGHTER'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-7211143453120051202</id><published>2008-09-19T15:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T15:32:13.337-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='STEPHENIE MEYER'/><title type='text'>Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SNP9WJyVccI/AAAAAAAACEM/LvfqQq5I3RM/s1600-h/breaking_dawn_cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SNP9WJyVccI/AAAAAAAACEM/LvfqQq5I3RM/s200/breaking_dawn_cover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247816547842748866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;That's the title, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seriously, I wasn't sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After acknowledging that everyone else is &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:10px;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through"&gt;trashing burning slamming&lt;/span&gt; altogether now COMPLETELY ANNIHILATING THIS BOOK AND EVERYTHING IT STANDS FOR, I counteract with one sentence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS"&gt;How would you feel if your husband bit the baby out of your stomach?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS"&gt;Yeah, that's what I thought.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS"&gt;P.S. OMFGSUPERNATURALSPAZ&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS"&gt;Excuse me, I sneezled.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-7211143453120051202?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/7211143453120051202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=7211143453120051202&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/7211143453120051202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/7211143453120051202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/09/breaking-dawn-stephenie-meyer.html' title='Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SNP9WJyVccI/AAAAAAAACEM/LvfqQq5I3RM/s72-c/breaking_dawn_cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-2757818484353325070</id><published>2008-06-20T13:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-20T13:18:53.444-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BARRY LYGA'/><title type='text'>BOY TOY - BARRY LYGA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFvmJOn7dzI/AAAAAAAABSE/wrvq2FL8l8w/s1600-h/boy_toy_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214014039830263602" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFvmJOn7dzI/AAAAAAAABSE/wrvq2FL8l8w/s200/boy_toy_2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I'M NOT SURE I REMEMBER WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Eh...we at The Incandescent Corner are proud to bring you...-drumroll-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BOY TOY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Written by the same author of The Astonishing Adventures of Fan Boy and Goth Girl, Barry Lyga tells the story of Josh Mendel. Star athlete and perfect student, Josh is everything a teacher expects from a brilliant student --however, one teacher expects a little bit more.*&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Sherman is Josh's 7th grade history teacher; however, she is an image of beauty perfected, and all of the boys in her classes (Josh included) fall under her charm. When Josh miraculously misses his bus, Evelyn Sherman (often referred to as 'Eve') takes him to her home, where she begins her seduction! Unfortunately, Josh is all-too-willing to comply, and soon their relationship has passed accepted and legal boundaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the truth comes out at Josh's best-girl-friend Rachel's birthday party. To Josh, what he does with Eve is the same he could do with anyone else, and when forced into a closet with Rachel under 'innocent' premises, he oversteps his 13-year old boundaries, and ends up hurting her.&lt;br /&gt;When his mother is questioning him about the incident, Josh slips a note about his teacher; his mother responds furiously, and soon Eve is on trial. In the end, Josh loses his best friend and Eve goes to jail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his senior year, Rachel approaches Josh and offers her forgiveness, friendship, and love. Aw. Josh is hestitant, guilty, and worried about developing a friendship --or closer relationship --with his friend, especially since, only weeks before, Eve was released from jail. Trying to get over Eve and his imperfecitons, he decides to take Rachel up on her offer --for better, or for worse.&lt;br /&gt;Haha. My summarisation skillz make me laugh. Oh, good times, good times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ET L'CRITIQUE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though not as good as Fan Boy &amp;amp; Goth Girl, Boy Toy was still a pleasant* read! Yay! It's not terribly explicit, but a good part of the book is Josh being a horny 7th grader. -shrug- Go team. It leaves you to wonder how people get caught up in affairs, especially underage ones; why they feel compelled to; and what they have to deal with before, during, and after. However, if you are looking for a book on statutory rape and such, I would recommend What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] by Zoë Heller. The movie is terrific.*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Just an itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny bit more...&lt;br /&gt;*Oh, my life amuses me. Pleasant. -snort-&lt;br /&gt;*Cate Blanchett does a wonderful job as the teacher in this story. -coughnotbiasedcough-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My god I'm glad that's over...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-2757818484353325070?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/2757818484353325070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=2757818484353325070&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/2757818484353325070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/2757818484353325070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/06/boy-toy-barry-lyga.html' title='BOY TOY - BARRY LYGA'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFvmJOn7dzI/AAAAAAAABSE/wrvq2FL8l8w/s72-c/boy_toy_2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-3674733256183887286</id><published>2008-06-20T13:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-20T13:06:55.857-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BECKY CLOONAN'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BRIAN WOOD'/><title type='text'>DEMO - BRAIN WOOD &amp; BECKY CLOONAN</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFvjUk6U1TI/AAAAAAAABRc/UNSgEpf4GtM/s1600-h/wooddemo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214010936256681266" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFvjUk6U1TI/AAAAAAAABRc/UNSgEpf4GtM/s200/wooddemo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; MORE COMICS. YAY!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DEMO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demo is a collection of comics originally released individually under the name 'Demo' (#1, 2, 3...12 total). The first few comics are of a not-so-super theme, where the protagonists have strange powers they begin to discover and fail to control. The later stories progress to people attending to their daily lives; normal, you-and-me problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The art of Demo is not really my style, but my friends and I enjoyed the collection nonetheless. There wasn't anything particularly brilliant about it, but it was a nice interpretation of life on paper. And the supernatural powers some people possessed were...enlightening. The writing is nothing extraordinary, but it all fits together into a classic indie comic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-3674733256183887286?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/3674733256183887286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=3674733256183887286&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/3674733256183887286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/3674733256183887286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/06/demo-brain-wood-becky-cloonan.html' title='DEMO - BRAIN WOOD &amp; BECKY CLOONAN'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFvjUk6U1TI/AAAAAAAABRc/UNSgEpf4GtM/s72-c/wooddemo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-5902148383489487754</id><published>2008-06-19T19:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T18:00:58.174-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LISA MCMANN'/><title type='text'>WAKE - LISA MCMANN</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFrBV01vSHI/AAAAAAAABRM/HU15GhOEOdY/s1600-h/Wake_2ec.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213692099340224626" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFrBV01vSHI/AAAAAAAABRM/HU15GhOEOdY/s200/Wake_2ec.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.:lulz:.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Yo yo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Eh...Janie* gets sucked into peoples dreams. Rawrawrawrawr. Though it seems like a gift, she's none too thrilled. She's sick of seeing people wishes, their insanity; their greatest fears. But then she stumble sonto a strange dream, one that frightens her more than annoy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Then she meets the myserious Cabel&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; who seems to bring insanity with his dreams; together, with the POWER OF LOVE!&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;, they begin to figure out a way to help Janie --and Cabel, whatever his problem seems to be.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Um...I didn't really get this book. Have the time I was thinking 'Um...okay...plot twist there', and then I'd just be confused. NOT SPOILING THE BOOK, sometimes it seemed like the characters did something they were set against doing the previous chapter. Plus, &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;SPOILER&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;, Cabel and Janie broke up, like, 5 times. Children these days.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;*Forgot her name, too. :(&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;Or is it Caleb? Eh...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;Anyone feeling Harry &amp;amp; the Potters?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;jk guys there are some spoilers. Heh heh...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-5902148383489487754?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/5902148383489487754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=5902148383489487754&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/5902148383489487754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/5902148383489487754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/04/wake-lisa-mcmann.html' title='WAKE - LISA MCMANN'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFrBV01vSHI/AAAAAAAABRM/HU15GhOEOdY/s72-c/Wake_2ec.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-1716507780512998290</id><published>2008-06-19T17:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-20T12:51:16.738-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DAVID LEVITHAN'/><title type='text'>HOW THEY MET AND OTHER STORIES - DAVID LEVITHAN</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFrAOfAso3I/AAAAAAAABRE/KzW-B73kA-w/s1600-h/howtheymet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213690873709896562" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFrAOfAso3I/AAAAAAAABRE/KzW-B73kA-w/s200/howtheymet.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFrAIwEif8I/AAAAAAAABQ8/_1VNRubhEQE/s1600-h/n244247.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YOSH.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YAY FOR MORE DAVID LEVITHAN! MOAR, I SAY! MOAR! -crazypants-&lt;br /&gt;-commence seriousness-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOW THEY MET AND OTHER STORIES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tink dis is ma fav David Levithan book. I cried. x___X I wasn't feeling the ya-yas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The book is composed of Valentine's Day stories that Levithan wrote in high school for his friends, as well as more recently-composed love or concerning-love tales. They are, as all of Levithan's books, *touching* and well-written. They weave perfection and promise into real-world situations and relationships and give you an idea and ideal to look for. Go team. Some stories end happily --some don't; but they all revolve around love and how it impacts life as we know it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think that's just about the cheesiest thing I've ever written/said in my entire life. Go me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really, though; this is one of my favorite books and my favorite David Levithan book. It's beautifully written and appropriate for everyone and I have to go now because this Buffy episode is getting tense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KTHXBAI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-1716507780512998290?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/1716507780512998290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=1716507780512998290&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/1716507780512998290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/1716507780512998290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-they-met-and-other-stories-david.html' title='HOW THEY MET AND OTHER STORIES - DAVID LEVITHAN'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFrAOfAso3I/AAAAAAAABRE/KzW-B73kA-w/s72-c/howtheymet.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-6913712234895043461</id><published>2008-06-19T16:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T13:22:36.524-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DAVID LEVITHAN'/><title type='text'>WIDE AWAKE - DAVID LEVITHAN</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFqJy8h3GDI/AAAAAAAABQk/Vb8cVU6tvmI/s1600-h/11094632.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213631026969385010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFqJy8h3GDI/AAAAAAAABQk/Vb8cVU6tvmI/s200/11094632.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;ALTERNATE UNIVERSE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;-robot-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;In the alternate universe of &lt;em&gt;Wide Awake&lt;/em&gt;, America is...good?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;JINKIES!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Wide Awake is the story of Duncan* and his boyfriend Jimmy&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;. They live in a seemingly-perfect wrld where, if you're gay, GOOD FOR YOU! In fact, their president is gay, too! And Jewish! Yay! Go team!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;However, when the president's win is questioned by his opponent, Jimmy, Duncan, and all of their friends attend a rally where sexuality, friendship, politics, and purposes come into question. Go team.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Eh. Now for the even lazier review. Eh. -flail-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;To me, &lt;em&gt;Wide Awake&lt;/em&gt; was basically any other book with gay characters, except, as in Levithan's &lt;em&gt;Boy Meets Boy&lt;/em&gt;, the people around them are more understanding. Plus, &lt;em&gt;Wide Awake&lt;/em&gt; has politics. Yay!&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Off to watch more Buffy now. Lalala.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;*I'd forgotten his name.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;Shit I forgot his name too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;Eh. I should probably write a better review/summarisation BUT I AM FAR TOO LAZY. MAWR.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-6913712234895043461?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/6913712234895043461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=6913712234895043461&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/6913712234895043461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/6913712234895043461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/03/wide-awake-david-levithan.html' title='WIDE AWAKE - DAVID LEVITHAN'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFqJy8h3GDI/AAAAAAAABQk/Vb8cVU6tvmI/s72-c/11094632.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-5872479415744869936</id><published>2008-06-18T17:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T15:02:27.203-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HOLLY BLACK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TONY DITERLIZZI'/><title type='text'>THE SPIDERWICK CHRONCICLES - HOLLY BLACK &amp; TONY DITERLIZZI</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlaijwtRdI/AAAAAAAABP8/zRZt-6wHYF4/s1600-h/spiderwick.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213297593419646418" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlaijwtRdI/AAAAAAAABP8/zRZt-6wHYF4/s200/spiderwick.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlaixUobkI/AAAAAAAABQE/84uWETmdzB0/s1600-h/51GX226R0HL.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213297597059984962" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlaixUobkI/AAAAAAAABQE/84uWETmdzB0/s200/51GX226R0HL.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlai7FtodI/AAAAAAAABQM/WuoIVYG4VDM/s1600-h/0689859384.01.LZZZZZZZ"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213297599681765842" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlai7FtodI/AAAAAAAABQM/WuoIVYG4VDM/s200/0689859384.01.LZZZZZZZ" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlajI-ulcI/AAAAAAAABQU/AVmpZg-pqZQ/s1600-h/BlackIronwoodTree2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213297603410564546" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlajI-ulcI/AAAAAAAABQU/AVmpZg-pqZQ/s200/BlackIronwoodTree2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlajKhjbUI/AAAAAAAABQc/eT-lIigdyyc/s1600-h/imageloader.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213297603825069378" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlajKhjbUI/AAAAAAAABQc/eT-lIigdyyc/s200/imageloader.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlTPTsvuFI/AAAAAAAABPU/wGjk44j3xlc/s1600-h/spiderwick.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlTU8Kf95I/AAAAAAAABPc/u-4cnPFcSnA/s1600-h/51GX226R0HL.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlTc9cxTKI/AAAAAAAABPk/JCBhN_Ye8fs/s1600-h/0689859384.01.LZZZZZZZ"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlTi-eWZiI/AAAAAAAABPs/_50Dg7gplQI/s1600-h/BlackIronwoodTree2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlTq9_prHI/AAAAAAAABP0/3uJgmNe7X7k/s1600-h/imageloader.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES, BOOKS 1-5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;by Holly Black &amp;amp; Toni DiTerlizzi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Book 1: The Field Guide&lt;br /&gt;Book 2: The Seeing Stone&lt;br /&gt;Book 3: Lucinda's Secret&lt;br /&gt;Book 4: The Ironwood Tree&lt;br /&gt;Book 5: The Wrath of Mulgarath&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;There are three Grace children: identical twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory. After their father leaves, the children and their mother* relocate to the Spiderwick estate, a large dilapidated house of their insane aunt Lucinda, now in a nearby asylum/old people home&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;. Here Jared finds a book their great uncle Arthur Spiderwick had made, chronicling the lives and traits of faeries and other magical creatures preciously unknown to the world. They have several run-ins with the cruel goblins, gain a new pet gryphon, and find the secret of Arthur Spiderwick and his daughter Lucinda; locate his Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You; meet the house brownie; and face the evil ogre, Mulgarath. The stories take place over 5 books (duh) and go with several beautiful drawings, sketches, and images in each book.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the Spiderwick Chronicles are abosultely incredible; Holly Black is an excellent author, and spins a captivating story of mystery, action, and terror, while Tony DiTerlizzi draws absoultely gorgeous images to accompany the words. The movie differs in several ways, and (as it usually is) the books are, ultimately, better written and less scary&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would recommend these books for anyone and everyone, however they will obviously be easier for the older, more advanced readers. I think the series is generally geared towards 7-10 years old.&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*MARY-LOUISE PARKER -SPAZ-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;Can't recall what those are called. Resting home? -shudder-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;The movie was much darker. But that's just me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;Maybe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-5872479415744869936?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/5872479415744869936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=5872479415744869936&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/5872479415744869936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/5872479415744869936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/06/spiderwick-chroncicles-holly-black-tony.html' title='THE SPIDERWICK CHRONCICLES - HOLLY BLACK &amp; TONY DITERLIZZI'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlaijwtRdI/AAAAAAAABP8/zRZt-6wHYF4/s72-c/spiderwick.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-422016228871440635</id><published>2008-06-18T17:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T14:54:06.331-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LAUREN HENDERSON'/><title type='text'>KISS ME, KILL ME - LAUREN HENDERSON</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlQ2JYMsLI/AAAAAAAABOk/ynhUtQpxL1Y/s1600-h/n238407.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213286934818631858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlQ2JYMsLI/AAAAAAAABOk/ynhUtQpxL1Y/s200/n238407.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;If I could squash all my thoughts about this book into two words it would be...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;lol wut?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Seriously. What?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KISS ME, KILL ME - LAUREN HENDERSON&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I got this book as an ARC, and it disappointed me to the point where I wasn't going to write a review...But then I saw it at da bookstore, and realised I needed to save people from making the DEADLY MISTAKE of buying this book. Wow, I am good at flaming. WARNING: THIS IS MORE OF A RANT POST AND CONTAINS TEH SPOILERZ....So if you DO want to read this book............................go die. -twitch- There are several reasons this book bugged me, but I feel one of the most important ones is....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;THE GUY ON DA COVER HAS STUBBLE!!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Normally I don't have a problem with stubble, BUT HE HAD VIRTUALLY THREE LITTLE BRISTLES ON THE BASE OF HIS CHIN.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Not cool, guys, not cool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kiss Me, Kill Me is actually a romance/murder/mystery thing. Maybe. It begins with protagonist Scarlett Wakefield FINALLY BE NOTICED BY DA GUY OF HER DREAMS. Lovely. Then, she is invited by his high-society friends to a party. A PARTY!!!! LYK OMG A PARTY!!!! She is, naturally, thrilled, and abandons her socially-deprived gymnast friends for the high class society people at the party. There, she has her wonderful, dreamy kiss with the one and only Dan Something, who proceeds to fall over DEAD seconds later. Jolly good! She is, of course, absolutely horrified, and Dan's friends and all those annoying preppy girls proceed to make her life hell. A joint decision between her and her grandmother, she moves to her grandmother's school, where she meets a shady girl named Taylor*, finds a new boy to love&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;, and sets out to find out WHO KILLED DAN (maybe McAndrews&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The thing that disappointed me most about this book (other than the stubble) was that, at the end of the book, Scarlett completely forgets about Dan and how enamored she was with him. She just moves on to the gardener with the gorgeous eyes. She may devote some of her time to solving the murder mystery, but she just moves on from her old friends and her old love. What a flake. She spent her entire life wishing she could kiss this guy, and then she forgets him. Psh. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I amuse myself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So in review, this book is not a good use of your money. You're much better off saving up to buy a crapload of manga. Or Neil Gaiman's Eternals. I am not marketing agent, noooooooo. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;X___x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;*I think.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;Eh cannot remember his name. Too lazy to go look.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;That might be his last name. I'm not really sure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-422016228871440635?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/422016228871440635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=422016228871440635&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/422016228871440635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/422016228871440635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/02/kiss-me-kill-me-lauren-henderson.html' title='KISS ME, KILL ME - LAUREN HENDERSON'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SFlQ2JYMsLI/AAAAAAAABOk/ynhUtQpxL1Y/s72-c/n238407.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-2395267311819527395</id><published>2008-03-15T17:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-15T18:42:23.744-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='KAORI YUKI'/><title type='text'>GODCHILD VOL. 8 :: GODLESS - KAORI YUKI</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/R9xQxpoOzvI/AAAAAAAABD0/xCcnNi79g28/s1600-h/C_1421515369.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/R9xQxpoOzvI/AAAAAAAABD0/xCcnNi79g28/s200/C_1421515369.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178102485487636210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;HAI LOOK GUYS IT'S MANGA!!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;And not just any manga! &lt;---wow, cheeeeeeeeeeesy. But seriously, Godchild is one of my favorites if not favorite manga of ALL TIME. IT PWNS NARUTO. So enough of my biased praise -coughpsykecough-. AND NOW FOR THE SHOW!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GODCHILD, VOL. 8 :: GODLESS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;There are 8 volumes in the Godchild series, and this, being the 8th, is obviously the 8th (derrrrr). The series is a vision into the past and present life of Earl Cain Hargreaves (jakfgjadjgkak I totally spelled that wrong). The story is set in 19th century England, where your place in society is the height of gossip and Cain's life, though he is a rich, gifted Earl, seems remarkably out of place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;When Cain was young, his father mysteriously passed away through a series of odd incidents, some involving Cain; after the death, a secret organization called Delilah emerged and began to target Cain, his family, and his friends. Through luck; intuition; a vast knowledge of people, poisons, and detective skillz; and a loyal servant named Riff, Cain escapes all of Delilah's attacks and begins to find out more and more about his father's death, the organization, their plans, and how he fits in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The previous volumes are divided into different parts, often fairy tales or children's stories and nursery rhymes twisted and warped with a gothic flair. This volume is set in parts as well, but is one continuous story, an explanation of Cain, his past, and the past of all around him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;So...um...obviously I like Godchild. A lot. Cain is also featured in another Kaori Yuki series, The Cain Saga. If you live outside of the US it's different. 0.o I'm really bad at staying on the topic. Anyways, the art in Godchild is just riveting, incredibly beautiful, and really well done. It doesn't have very much romance, but it's a shojo (girl) manga; there's action and, I guess, 'gory' moments (so some of the books have those little plastic covers on them so the little kids don't pick them up and be all like 'Mommy why is that man putting staples in the puppy's brain?') Sometimes the story is a little random and the science advancements are completely absurd, but the art and the beauty makes up for it. &lt;3&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Go stuff yourself with sushi and read a book.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;IT'S NUMMY TIME!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;P.S. This manga is only kind of gay. And not in a like OHMYGODURSOGAYIHATEU kind of way but a like HAILOOKTHOSEGUYSAREKISSING kind of gay.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Just so you know. :3&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;P.P.S. Sorry about the colors; I tried to fix it like 14173571351538 times but the cover still seems all washed out and strange. X.X&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-2395267311819527395?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/2395267311819527395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=2395267311819527395&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/2395267311819527395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/2395267311819527395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/03/godchild-vol-8-godless-kaori-yuki.html' title='GODCHILD VOL. 8 :: GODLESS - KAORI YUKI'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/R9xQxpoOzvI/AAAAAAAABD0/xCcnNi79g28/s72-c/C_1421515369.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-1524381169415878178</id><published>2008-01-27T18:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-06-20T13:14:05.719-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BARRY LYGA'/><title type='text'>THE ASTONISHING ADVENTURES OF FAN BOY AND GOTH GIRL - BARRY LYGA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/R596HC9PB_I/AAAAAAAABC0/6jNEoceTZtw/s1600-h/fanboy_pb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160977959461259250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/R596HC9PB_I/AAAAAAAABC0/6jNEoceTZtw/s200/fanboy_pb.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'd been wanting to read this book for some time now, but between being grounded and all that homework I just &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to do, I've had no time. BUT NOW I HAVE!!! Mind you I'm running on coffee and 3 hours of sleep, so this may sound a bit wonky.*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE ASTONISHING ADVENTURES OF FANBOY AND GOTH GIRL &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;-cue applause-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;{This time the review comes first} This book deserves more than applause. It deserves you going to your local independent book seller and buying a copy. Yeah, that good. But I also got a copy for free, so I might be biased. -coughcough- It was funny, awkward, heart-breaking; everything you could wish for in a book --plus a spiffy metallic cover. It also has a goth girl (REALLY?!) and Neil Gaiman. WHAT MORE EVIDENCE OF IT'S AWESZHOME DO YOU NEED?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zees lovely book comes to us from the great Barry Lyga, who lives up to every expectation for aweszhome. Fanboy loves comic books and is writing an, ahem, GRAPHIC NOVEL&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;. He's a social outcast, but through a meeting of not-so-spectacular events he meets Goth Girl, or Kyra. Fanboy and Kyra share a love of comic books and graphic novels, as well as the dislike of jocks and bullies that have made Fanboy's life miserable. Miserable enough for The List, a list (really? No, really?) of people who piss him off for no reason. People he can never get back at, due to both lack of physical and emotional strength.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Kyra's help, Fanboy begins to 'come out of his shell' and stand up for himself; he also tends to his graphic novel, which he longs to present to the grand Brian Michael Bendis, comic book and graphic novel extraordinnaire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, the power of a graphic-novel-in-progress is not enough to keep Fanboy out of trouble, and he soons finds himself caught in a web; one he must escape for his own good, and for Kyra's as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Lalalala I'm sick and have had too much caffeine lalala. &lt;----crazypants &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;*Har-har: 'Well, Harry's got sort of a wonky cross, well that's trials and suffering. And uh...That there could be the sun, and that's happiness... So uh, you're gonna' suffer, but you're gonna be happy about it.' - Ron Weasley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#66ffff;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;That's right, graphic novel! Not a comic book! GRAPHICNOVELGRAPHICNOVELGRAPHICNOVEL. &lt;----someone is little angsty after reminding everyone that Sandman is in fact a GRAPHIC NOVEL not a COMIC BOOK. I dare you to laugh. Triple-dogggy-upsy-down-squiggle-wiggle-quack-whistle-with-a-cherry-on-top dare ya. HAHA! ::crazy mad scientist glint in eye::&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-1524381169415878178?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/1524381169415878178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=1524381169415878178&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/1524381169415878178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/1524381169415878178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/01/astonishing-adventures-of-fan-boy-and.html' title='THE ASTONISHING ADVENTURES OF FAN BOY AND GOTH GIRL - BARRY LYGA'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/R596HC9PB_I/AAAAAAAABC0/6jNEoceTZtw/s72-c/fanboy_pb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-2080164189688058294</id><published>2008-01-20T16:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T17:38:10.247-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JAY ASHER'/><title type='text'>TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY - JAY ASHER</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/R5PMVz_JreI/AAAAAAAAA8o/eKbpA_LfzaQ/s1600-h/bulletinboard2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/R5PMVz_JreI/AAAAAAAAA8o/eKbpA_LfzaQ/s200/bulletinboard2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157690673373752802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;So I finally post my reviews...they've been sitting on my hard drive for ages...Oh, phooey. Well here it goes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY by JAY ASHER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Clay Jensen receives a shoebox* of tapes on his doorstep, and the voice recorded on them is Hannah Baker, his long-time crush who recently committed&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt; suicide. Hannah begins to describe Thirteen Reasons that contributed to her choice, Thirteen people who impacted her life enough that she wished to end it. She takes Clay through each event that lead to her deepening depression, all the while keeping him wondering what his part is in her decision. She includes a map with the tapes, each significant location marked with a star, and as each story is told, Clay travels to the scene of the crime.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Along the way he encounters other recipients of the tapes, people who had wronged Hannah in some twisted way, even though they thought themselves innocent and pure. Hannah instructs them to pass the tapes on to another one of the Reasons, to send off the tapes and the stories that will change 13 lives forever.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hannah knows that there are secrets and statements on the tapes that could embarrass people --or worse --and warns them to keep the tapes moving from Reason to Reason until all 13 have heard her story, lest the truth somehow be leaked to the outside world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Throughout the tapes Hannah expresses how people never tried to get close to her, never tried hard enough to help her out. Clay, though he conveys that he tried but she continually pushed him away, realises that this was the problem; that even though people may be refusing help, pushing people away and isolating themselves in their own little worlds, all they really want is someone to share it with, someone to join their little corner of the universe&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;. Because how can you save someone when you can't even see them?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;YAY FOR ZE CRAPPY ASS SUMMARY!!! w00t w00t!!!! And now for ze review! Ahem...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I admit it: I judge books by their covers. I'm a sucker for a novel with a pretty picture on the front. I saw the shoes, the swing, the shnazzy title, and thought 'SPIFFY!' I read the little summary and, again, my vice: suicide books. I know it's weird, but I feel really connected to the stories and that's all I'm going to say. X.X&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And it fulfilled all of my expectations. It was sweet, witty, raw; it gave insight into --what I felt --people are thinking before they kill themselves. Telling her story (well, stories, I guess) on tapes was pretty cool, but when it went back and forth between her and Clay (italics verses normal text) it got rather confuzzling. 0.X But I cried. Yeah, I cried. &lt;---someone was a little sobbasket at the bookstore.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;AND THAT'S IT, FOLKS. THANKS FOR READING. I HOPE YOU LEARNED SOMETHING AND WERE CONVINCED TO READ/NOT READ THIS BOOK*.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is quarantinedfire, signing off.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&lt;a href="http://shoebox-project.livejournal.com"&gt;OMG YAY SHOEBOX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;Wow...it took me forever to remember what this word was and then I spelled it wrong. 3 times. Kids, this is why you need to stay in school.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PJzPlC1kdDcC&amp;amp;dq=a+corner+of+the+universe&amp;amp;pg=PP1&amp;amp;ots=dGqdTGWWt1&amp;amp;sig=TBVTwZL3ZpmRLGcpV2zcqacZDnQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;prev=http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;amp;rls=en&amp;amp;q=a+corner+of+the+universe&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=print&amp;amp;ct=title&amp;amp;cad=one-book-with-thumbnail"&gt;Oh, me and my little book references...Just ignore me...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;P.S. Check out the TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY website, &lt;a href="http://www.thirteenreasonswhy.com"&gt;www.thirteenreasonswhy.com&lt;/a&gt; --it has Hannah's map and other cool stuff. :D&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-2080164189688058294?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/2080164189688058294/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=2080164189688058294&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/2080164189688058294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/2080164189688058294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/01/th1rteen-r3asons-why-jay-asher.html' title='TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY - JAY ASHER'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/R5PMVz_JreI/AAAAAAAAA8o/eKbpA_LfzaQ/s72-c/bulletinboard2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327519531564905818.post-490847412949515504</id><published>2008-01-20T16:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T16:27:42.268-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Introduction'/><title type='text'>(DEBUT)</title><content type='html'>I'm rotten at fulfilling my New Year's Resolutions (mine lasted approximately 0 seconds...YAY!) But I WILL DO THIS ONE!&lt;div&gt;So basically for each book I read I shall write a review and a basic summary for it...Fo shiz...0.0 Um...yeah. Enjoy meine Lieben.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/327519531564905818-490847412949515504?l=the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/feeds/490847412949515504/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=327519531564905818&amp;postID=490847412949515504&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/490847412949515504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/327519531564905818/posts/default/490847412949515504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-incandescent-corner.blogspot.com/2008/01/debut.html' title='(DEBUT)'/><author><name>quarantinedfire</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15713472929756667868</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6zgHCXuJOFE/SXR-R9bm4RI/AAAAAAAADgA/SQBQNE3fyvY/S220/16181647.jpg.png'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
