Chaotic Reading Reviews

Armada is the next highly anticipated blockbuster from Ernest Cline. This book is everything a geek needs in a novel. With nods to everything from Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Name of the Wind, World of Warcraft, Firefly, Battlestar Gallactica, Power Rangers, Aliens and so many more that I must stop now, before your eyes glaze over. Ernest Cline is geek cultures dream author. To a point this really heightens the reading, and the fun, but at some point you start to think - enough. It gets too much which is the difference in the writing between Ready Player One and this new book.   Even with the over play, every  cultural mention engages you as the reader as you remember other stories in an intertwined culture. As his friends fighting over Wonder Woman's use of Sting (the sword, not the singer), Zachary Ulysses Lightman fights with himself for control of his emotions, and with reality when things start getting dodgy. Invading aliens? A government cover up that has lasted al...

This week I read Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick.  A book about solitude, gender, writing, amazing women, and trying to find and live a life that makes you happy. I think it was a good week to read this. Marriage Equality is free in the U.S. as of this week, the number of unmarried people in the U.S. right now hovers around 105 Million, and the national census states that for every 84 unmarried man in the country there are 100 women. Living alone, not being in a relationship, accounts for a vast part of the population.  We are struggling as a culture to define ourselves, instead of just allowing everyone to be happy, and healthy, and live their own lives.  Spinster focuses on the history of the word, the history of women, and the idea that you can by happy, no matter if that happiness is not what is the cultural norm. S pinster  focuses on is the many women who have helped shape Bolick's views. She is a writer, so she brings up a mob of...