The lesson I learned from this book is that it’s really a good to ignore the praise on the back cover. From the sound of it, this book looked interesting, set in Japan just after the war, with a conflicted police detective and a series of mysterious and troubling murders. The book is actually based …
Daily Archives: 15 February, 2008
Gender Bender
Maureen Dowd has written an excellent editorial in the Times, talking about why Hillary Clinton is a poor litmus test for the feminist community. You really ought to just go read it, because it’s good and pretty short, but the gist is this, in Dowd’s words: If Hillary fails, it will be her failure, not …
Silky Bows
Superdelegates for sale! Get your fresh, hot superdelegates here! Harlan Ellison has some searing words on the WGA deal. Pornography is changing, and P. Joseph Potocki decided to talk to Annie Sprinkle about it. The American College of Physicians says it’s time to seriously think about the merits of medical marijuana. We’re all secretly afraid …
Book Twenty-Nine: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
I did warn y’all that when I read cheesy mysteries, you’d hear about it. I read Darkly Dreaming Dexter when it first came out because I liked the idea of an ethical serial killer, and I recently watched the first season of Showtime’s Dexter, so I thought I would re-read the book and see what …