We’re a little late with this one, but year-end posts are still fair game anytime before February (right?). As is tradition for, well, all book blogs ever, we compiled a list of the best books we each read in 2023.
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Janes (a True Stan) and Nerdy Spice (a New Fan) are watching all of Buffy together and comparing notes. Warning: May contain spoilers for later episodes.
Content warning: explicit discussion of SA, graphic violence.
We’re still posting! Just veeery slowly. Life has gotten in the way and probably will continue to do so. Thanks to those of you who have dropped by and read and/or commented so far!!
Continue reading →This rec is a deep cut: Fail-Safe, a novel written in 1962 and set in a futuristic 1967… in which unquestioning faith in a complicated technical system turns out to be tragically misguided.
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Janes (a True Stan) and Nerdy Spice (a New Fan) are watching all of Buffy together and comparing notes. Warning: May contain spoilers for later episodes.
Episode 16 “Hell’s Bells”
Anya and Xander are finally getting married, which means lots of time-honored wedding traditions, with demonic twists. Willow and Buffy have to wear hilariously ugly, iridescent bridesmaid dresses (because they refused to wear the “traditional larvae and burlap sack”), and Anya and Xander are super stressed about hosting their respective families–cruel alcoholics on Xander’s side, literal demons on Anya’s. Like many couples, they get crappy wedding gifts, but in this case some of them are wriggly tentacled things that are trying to break out of the gift box.
Continue reading →“I don’t know how other people endure the violence and cruelty they encounter throughout their lives,” remarks the narrator of Notes of a Crocodile (by Qiu Miaojin, translated by Bonnie Huie), a young college student named Lazi. She is mourning the end of a relationship with her troubled ex-girlfriend, Shui Ling—only she, Lazi, is the one who ended it. In part this book is about that very question–how its characters (young gay women and men living in Taiwan in the 1980s) hurt each other, acting out their own traumas on each other, and sometimes becoming cruel out of pain and confusion.
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This Oscar season has been wild. Between Andrea Riseborough’s controversial nomination, All Quiet on the Western Front bursting onto the scene at the BAFTAs, and whatever’s going on in the Best Supporting Actress category, almost anything could happen tonight. The only thing we know for sure is that, against all odds, a weird little sci-fi comedy with butt plug jokes is going to sweep.
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Janes (a True Stan) and Nerdy Spice (a New Fan) are watching all of Buffy together and comparing notes. Warning: May contain spoilers for later episodes.
We’re a little late with this one, but year-end posts are still fair game anytime before February (right?). This was a great year of reading for both of us – we both went overboard on Honorable Mentions and still had trouble choosing! Here are the best books we read in 2022:
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Janes (a True Stan) and Nerdy Spice (a New Fan) are watching all of Buffy together and comparing notes. Warning: May contain spoilers for later episodes.
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I’ve never been able to write an Emmys post before! Usually, my tastes don’t align with the Emmys, and I haven’t seen most of the shows, but I did pretty well this year. I’ve seen all of the nominated dramas, except for Better Call Saul–if you read this blog, you know how much I hate all things Breaking Bad. I did especially well with limited series: thanks to a nasty bout of COVID, I binged every single docudrama miniseries of note this year, even the ones that weren’t nominated but should have been. (We’ll get to that.)
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