Finally got around to seeing Push the other day. I initially wanted to see it in the theaters but didn’t think it would be worth the $11, especially after seeing all the negative reviews. Despite a dismal 23% on the Rotten Tomatoes tomatometer, Push still had an audience average rating of 47%, which means that […]
MegaMind, you had me at hello. Honestly, who couldn’t not love the big-headed blue evil genius? I loved everything about this movie, even though it’s really nothing new in terms of concept in the gray area of good versus evil, and baby aliens with special powers being sent to earth (Superman, if you’re struggling to […]
So here it is, as promised, the final installment in the phenomenal Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, my review of Mockingjay. After my positive reviews of The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, I had some high expectations for the final book. I was not disappointed. Mockingjay was everything I wanted and more, all in […]
Catching Fire is the second in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series. I reviewed the first book, The Hunger Games, a few weeks ago. Needless to say, I was not disappointed by this book. The writing is as fast-paced and exciting as the first novel, and my heroine is the same in all her imperfect, defiant, […]
The title of this blog post is meant in the “literary” way of course…metaphorically speaking, limbering up my brain, my vocabulary, my creativity, and physically, my typing fingers. The flow of inspiration is liquid these days, especially this past weekend, and I am very grateful. 5000 words into a new story has been liberating, and […]
I haven’t really written much in weeks, probably a couple thousand words at the most for a new story that hasn’t really gone anywhere other than a few intro pages. It’s not that I don’t have inspiration, I do. I have a ton of cool story ideas from post-apocalyptic to magical fantasy to horror. The […]