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Book Review

Beginner’s Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions by Six de los Reyes

Beginner’s Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

I downloaded a sample of this book after Courtney Milan raved about it on Twitter. I’ve been doing a lot of sample shopping, and not many books make it past the sample with me. I’m in something of a grumpy slump with my reading, a state which is entirely my own fault, and when I wanted more past the sample of Beginner’s Guide, I was very excited. Kaya Rubio is a grad student studying molecular genetics in … Continue reading Beginner’s Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions by Six de los Reyes

Book Review

Hold Me by Courtney Milan

Hold Me

Hold Me is both very ambitious and very uneven. We here at the Bitchery are unabashed Courtney Milan fans, to the point where I cannot possibly read a Milan book without both bias in its favor and very high expectations. As with all Milan books, I squeed repeatedly while reading, but the overall reading experience was not as enjoyable as I hoped it would be. Hold Me involves Jay, a physicist, who is super duper … Continue reading Hold Me by Courtney Milan

Other Media Review

Movie Review: The Martian

In The Martian, based on the novel by Andy Weir, a manned mission to Mars goes wrong and the team leaves the planet, but they left behind botanist and bad-ass Mark Watney. In order to make it until help might come to get him, Mark must survive, alone, on Mars, for years. Fortunately, he’s a scientist.  Also fortunately, NASA is also full of scientists who will stop at nothing to get him home. Elyse: I … Continue reading Movie Review: The Martian