I really wanted to enjoy The Girl Who Would Be King, but it just don't hold up for me. The idea was great and Lola was a fantastic villain, but I think some polish would have really helped it.

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Physicist Leó Szilárd. He discovered the nuclear chain reaction, and invented and patented the nuclear reactor in 1933. In 1939 he and Enrico Fermi demonstrated high neutron multiplication in Uranium, proving that the chain reaction was possible, and that nuclear weapons were a sure thing. He wrote the now-famous…

At the age of 15 his book made me political, and a civil libertarian. I picked it up thinking it was a science fiction classic, expecting cheesy space opera. This was in the backdrop of the War On Terror, where Tony Blair was chipping away at civil rights (which don't seem to have been restored since, surprisingly…

1984 by George Orwell, which showed me why political involvement is important, and made me want to write my own dystopian fiction. Read at age 13.

Flowers For Algernon, even though I am now almost exclusively a nonfiction reader, this bit did not register huge when I first read it on assignment, but the plot resonates with me more years later than ever for some reason!

Horrible middle class white person answer, but: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Fahrenheit 451, A Clockwork Orange, Jane Eyre, The Wide Sargasso Sea, the Foundation books, A Handmaid's Tale.....

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It presented the whole of existence as basically an insane farce that takes itself too seriously, and showed me how to be okay with that. (Just hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied). Adams was scary smart and permanently funny, and these books were an invitation to…

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The…

Part of the reason I wanted Octavia Spencer was because she's definitely plus-size and can play hard extremely well. Yes, Oprah could be good and Viola is definitely a step up from that fuckery of New 52!Waller, but I was hoping they cast a plus size actress (I would take CCH Pounder for obvious reasons, even though…

This is disappointing. I was hoping for a more wall-like woman to play The Wall.

I am loving DCs diversity lately, also i saw this on tumblr about Marvel and it so true.

I'm going to cry so many ugly tears when the finale airs.

I just re-read my comment and I repeat the same or similar adjectives over and over. I hate that.

It is articles like this that make me love my husband even more.....if that's possible. He found out he was going to be a father at 20 and became a father at 21. I was his baby mama, now wife. He stepped up and is honestly the best father on the planet. I have never once questioned his ability to parent, be a…

Some are terrified; many are bored; nearly all are deeply unhappy.

I really liked both of the books, and I'm surprised by the sharp tone of the criticism in these comments.