Breaking: Book Takes Off Its Glasses And Was Beautiful The Whole Time
You've gotta give a book the chance to surprise you otherwise what's the point
Please find your seats the monster pageant is about to begin
They are all winners 2 me
Panic! At the reality show plot
Why did it take so long to get a slasher set at The Bachelor
The Big Book of Twilight Implications
A treatise on the inscrutable nature of the Meyer mentality
Middle Ages? Yeah I sure hope it does
Or: How a '90s scifi book about a double plague kicked my brain's entire ass
Wherein I unhinge my jaw and Discworld thoughts issue forth in an unstoppable torrent
Everybody buckle up
BookChunks™ Part Deux: Fictional Real Estate
The children yearn for the boxcars
Bad Husband Brigade
Oh brother these guys STINK
Who's allowed to dream in Los Angeles?
The future is coming either way
Trope Machine Presents: A Thinly Veiled Excuse To Talk About CreepyPasta
"Disappearing into the tree line" can actually be a really healthy response to stress stimuli just fyi
You know what actually Gone Girl was right
Sometimes being deranged is the appropriate response to what's going on
BONUS: My favorite things I got for free from the LA Times Festival of Books
I was almost trampled to death at the Ripped Bodice tent but it was all worth it
No offense to those guys but I think I would have done OK on the 1898 Antarctic Expedition
Let's let the fiskeboller do the talking tonight
Southern Gothic *clap clap clap clap clap*
You're supposed to read this as a "Let's Go Sports Team" type chant or it's not going to work ok
I'm trapped on an island now what
And don't even bother saying let's go find the fully stocked outboard motorboat because obviously that's scuttled. That's like being trapped on an island 101.
Trope Machine Accidentally Does A Precog
This is just a quirky way of saying I'm writing about books I haven't even read yet now
Big dumb murder mystery idiot
I was looking at everyone's faces when I said that and I learned nothing
*shaking fist at sky* GENDERRRRR
I do this every day at noon if you guys wanna join <3
Trope Machine's Faves of 2024
It's that time of year where I once again regret never writing anything down in my Goodreads reviews
Real Housewives of The Benedictine Order
"I saw Brother Ubertino in the Aedificium" Girl what were YOU doing in the Aedificium 👀