Yeah, I don’t like a lack of completion with things. I was all set to buy the full trilogy but god was I uninterested by the end of Annihilation. You can tell the ending is supposed to lure us in but I was happy to leave it there. Having said that, I’m looking forward to the movie. I loved Ex Machina and I’m so…

I read it after reading an Io9 thread that was split on whether the first book was good. I had the first book sitting in my apartment so I decided to read it for myself. It wasn’t bad, it certainly wasn’t bad, but was it good? What I’ll say is this: When I read Three Body Problem, the first in a three book series, i…

If it’s a smart sci-fi movie that doesn’t devolve into a creature feature slasher thing, I’ll be more than happy. I gather from what other commenters are saying that race isn’t integral to the character arcs or the story, so it’s passable even if it’s not perfect. For me, this isn’t on the same page as some thing like…

The main reason for my decision was that I felt the book did a really poor job at depicting resources for mental health. It painted a picture that the main character had no options and that no one wanted to help her (spoiler: she walks out on her counselor without saying anying but blames him for not stopping her). I…

Yeah I didn’t really like the book. I think this is why. It’s so descriptive and yet I still couldn’t picture so much of it. Maybe lichen just doesn’t speak to my soul.

I really admire you for this. My depression was just beginning to be a really huge issue when I was in high school. If we’d read a book that centered around suicide, the accompanying discussions and analysis would have crushed me and forced my brain to give even more thought to suicide than it already gave. I don’t…

Yeah... and.... ugh, I hate saying this, but if the only sentence in the entire book about Natalie Portman’s character’s race was the one listed above about “high cheekbones that spoke to the strong Asian heritage on one side of her family,” ... then I lean towards believing that the Director could have missed that…

This is excellent news. I had never heard of her until I stumbled across her HBO special a couple months ago. I think she’s fantastic.

That book is the reason I want to hide out and sleep in random institutions, like museums and big box stores and stuff.

Hopefully there will be a stark contrast between her show and Handler’s.

Someone with a lot of power in publishing was sexually inappropriate toward me for years, day after day, and I didn’t dare out him. I don’t dare now. But every day I think his name will appear in one of these lists, and I guarantee there will be a deluge after.

Seems very possible. My fellow 9th grade ELA teachers teach 13 Reasons. After reading half, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. It just had issues for me that came off as misrepresenting mental illness that I couldn’t get over having seceral MI diagnoses myself and having attempted suicide.

You may enjoy From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, not only because it’s a charming little book, but because the grammatical pedantry in it comes from the mouth of a 12-year-old (offered in service to her 9-year-old brother). Delightful!

“It’s very scary when you know people are just not going to believe you once you open your mouth,”

I hated the book. I hate watched the Netflix show. I proclaimed, “What, no,” when it was granted a second season.

‘Reasons why’ is one of those grammatical formulations that rip out my spleen. You don’t need the ‘why’, people! The why is already built into ‘reasons’! Argh! As in: ‘I have 13 reasons to hate this book, even before I knew the writer was a creep.’

You should be pravda that joke.

Covfefe.

This was the first comment under the Buzzfeed article and she posted it on her Facbook page as well. I found it an interesting read.

I’ve never seen pics of her as a kid, but sometimes people that grow up to be really beautiful go through hard-core awkward stages. I have a cousin who is gorgeous, but every photo before she was about 18 just shows a gangly, awkward girl. Sometimes you gotta grow into it (I’m still waiting to...)