Luke Skywalker Can't Read: And Other Geeky Truths | 
pick📚📚📚 A collection of essays ranging from Star Wars to Asimov. While funny and interesting, when I read books like this, I get the feeling of geeksplaining by a gatekeeping fanboy. Britt is writing about his opinions & thoughts on these SFF legends & repeatedly makes attempts to assure the reader he isn‘t doing any of that & even makes fun of his younger self for doing so. Overall it‘s fun but not groundbreaking & isn‘t saying anything new.
pickA collection of essays regarding various science fiction books, films and TV shows! As with all collections some essays were better, others I may have missed the point a bit (as I didn‘t know the show or novel). A must for all science fiction fans! Funny, witty and thought provoking.
pickA must read book of essays for all sci-fi/fantasy lovers. Funny and thought provoking, a great mix.
I remember why I added Carmilla to my reading list now, it was from reading this book that @Eyelit recommended to me here on Litsy, which mentioned Carmilla.
It always comes back to Litsy
#BlameItOnLitsy
#ElementaryMyDearLitten
#bookmail Two books of essays about science fictions properties.
I've read the title essay from Luke Skywalker Can't Read and it uses the fact that no one in any Star Wars film is show reading or writing for pleasure, only interpreting data, to argue that all the denizens of the Star Wars universe are functionally illiterate. Should be goofy fun to offset the more serious Ender essays.
pickHilarious and well-written essays. Don't skip the glossary! 😂
This just broke my brain. It makes so much sense! But now I must know: Which hobbits are the other Beatles? Is Brian Epstein Gandalf or Aragorn?! SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS!!!
Am I seriously the only person who prefers The Magician's Nephew?!
pickFun dip into nerdy waters. Short, easy listen. Narrator did a fine job.
"Dramatically, I think it is very dope that Obi-Wan puts a lightsaber in Luke's hand"
pickSmart & geeky essays about a variety of topics: the path to the dark side is paved with illiteracy, monsters & their fashion choices, nostalgia and racial revisionism in Back To The Future, Shakespeare and superhero movies reboots, rise of the robots as Frankenstein stories, plus a variety of other topics that nerdy fans of all things sci-fi (like me) will love. Lots of Star Wars & Star Trek, but also Battlestar Galactica, Dracula, LOTR, & more.
Imagined conversation of Tolkien dreaming up LOTR after being pushed for a Hobbit sequel and trying to one-up CS Lewis on the metaphors. Earlier in this essay he talks about reading books in the order published and the infamous "The Magician's Nephew" Narnia book order controversy in comparison to the Silmarillion.
#TBRTuesday
My goals the next week and end of January:
Try to finish up the ones I have started, and start the next bunch of new releases, library checkouts, & book club picks for February, etc.
#WNDB Read More Diverse Book!
#MakeAmericaReadAgain
(Thanks to google books for this photo, since I can't share from my audiobook directly)
RIF! (Reading IS Fundamental!)
Not only are they really more of a hieroglyphic, post reading society, but we are heading there quickly ourselves with emoji's, voice-to-text, visual clips, etc.
(Thanks to google books for this photo, since I can't share from my audiobook directly)
OMG! Things I've never thought of before... what's the quickest way to the "Dark Side" no reading and no journalism. This essay is messing with my mind today, because it's true and something I've never thought about regarding the series.
(Thanks to google books for this photo, since I can't share from my audiobook directly)
Hard to believe it's time for #augustwrapup already! My #stats for August are still high (though last month still holds a record methinks). I know I'll be slowing down in September because work will be completely crazypants. I enjoyed doing #augustofpages and look forward to September's photo challenge 😄 #augustohotochallenge (also, even though I hate even numbers, I love that my total is 42!)
pickI was expecting a light romp through geek culture; what I got was far more in-depth and interesting. A fun and often humorous read and I'm so glad my library had a copy. Many thanks to @Carol for bringing this book to my awareness!
pickGreat nerdy book, which went more in-depth than I had anticipated. Warning: if you don't want spoilers about TV shows and books that have been our for years but you haven't experienced yet--read at your own risk.
My clock is 11:41 so I'm halfway done! I'm not going to make it by midnight EST but I'm determined to finish. Here's everything I've read so far in the #24in48 #readathon on this lovely #socksunday.
HOW DID I MISS SO MANY LITERARY REFERENCES IN STAR TREK!??? This chapter is seriously making me want to forget the #24in48 #readathon and go binge watch ALL THE STAR TREK.
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The titular essay is like one giant advert for the importance of the written word and how the discouragement of reading can lead to a disenfranchised and enslaved populous. While the book's content is skewing a little heavier and in-depth than I'd anticipated by the cover (NEVER JUDGE a book by its cover and all that) my nerdy self is on cloud 9.
Book 7 is on the Kindle for easier reading in bed. At just over 6 hours logged I have a hella long way to go to come close to my goal for the #24in48 #readathon. I am totally rocking this Out of Print shirt, though. You can't see much of it but it has a bunch of date due stamps all over it.
Any other Hufflepuffs out there?
