This book has a lot to say, and it says it all over and over and over again. You will come away from the experience with no doubt about how the author feels about gender and sexual identity issues. If you aren’t exhausted by the relentless preaching, you might even…
There will be plenty of people who tell you that Harlequin romances, especially those by Betty Neels, are fluff and complete nonsense and not worth the read. Sometimes they’re right. The Doctor’s Girl by Betty Neels is everything that makes people cringe about this genre. Loveday, whose name is literally…
At the time of the publishing of this Betty Neels book, I was not much older than the protagonist and was either working for the philanderer who impregnated three women in a few months, or I was working at the phone sex place. Either way, my experience of the early…
For a science fiction book about an alien race interfering with our world, the most alien part of this book is the author’s relationship with emotions, religion, and women. This book tries to do a lot of things at once – reflect on religion, explore a mother-daughter bond, speculate about…
by Joe Haldeman The Forever War This is the weirdest sci fi book I’ve read since Ringworld, and just as unlikable. The idea is fascinating – time travel via space travel, but the execution is deeply flawed. The military stuff bored me to tears but at least I don’t know…
by Guy de Maupassant The Necklace Today was my first day in Introduction to Literature, an online class I’m taking for my Associate’s degree. Our first assigned story was one I read a year or so ago but never reviewed. I don’t often review short stories because there just isn’t that…
