Saturday, January 26, 2013

Reconsidering the Feminism of Joss Whedon

This is a longish, but interesting read.

http://www.themarysue.com/reconsidering-the-feminism-of-joss-whedon/

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

I read these in 2012

Some of these are graphic novels or comic book collections.  Some of them are 1Q84 and the ASOIAF books.  I think it balances out.

1. Chuck Klosterman - The Visible Man
2. Chuck Palahniuk - Damned
3. Cory Doctorow - Context
4. Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
5. Michael Lewis - Moneyball
6. John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
7. Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
8. Richard W. Bailey - Speaking American: A History of English in the United States
9. George R. R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
10. Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
11. George R. R. Martin - A Clash of Kings
12. Tina Fey - Bossypants
13. George R. R. Martin - A Storm of Swords
14. Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
15. Suzanna Collins - Mockingjay
16. Rachel Maddow - Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
17. George R. R. Martin - A Feast for Crows
18. Brian Lee O'Malley - Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
19. Brian Lee O'Malley - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
20. Brian Lee O'Malley - Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness
21. Brian Lee O'Malley - Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
22. Brian Lee O'Malley - Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe
23. Brian Lee O'Malley - Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
24. George R. R. Martin - A Dance With Dragons
25. Charles Pierce - Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
26. Dave Eggers - A Hologram for the King
27. Mary Roach - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
28. Bill Buford - Among the Thugs
29. Don DeLillo - Cosmopolis
30. Randall Munroe - xkcd: volume 0
31. Zach Weiner - Save Yourself, Mammal!
32. Tom Wolfe - The Bonfire of the Vanities
33. Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik - Attack of the Bacon Robots
34. Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik - Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings
35. Zach Weiner - The Most Dangerous Game
36. David Finch - The Journal of Best Practices
37. Lewis Black - Me Of Little Faith
38. William McGee - Attention All Passengers
39. Michael Lewis - Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
40. David Sedaris - When You Are Engulfed in Flames
41. Yu Hua - China in Ten Words
42. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Super Freakonomics
43. Shigeru Mizuki - Onward Towards our Noble Deaths
44. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
45. Aaron Bobrow-Strain - White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
46. Norah Vincent - Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
47. Julie Otsuka - The Buddha in the Attic
48. Peggy Orenstein - Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
49. Susan Cain - Quiet: The Hidden Power of Introverts
50. Al Franken - Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right