Grace Ravel

Asians as heroes and heroines…say, what???

Have you read Crazy Rich Asians? Why not??? It's a fun and sharp-eyed observation of the ridiculous excesses of rich Asians--its the opulence of Fifty Shades to the nth degree without the annoying inner goddess and bad sex scenes. But fear not, if you have no desire to wade through descriptions of ... READ the POST

Oceans 8 (Otherwise known as the better Oceans movie)

Apparently, Danny Ocean is dead. Or not. And he has a sister, Debbie Ocean, thus the movie, Oceans 8.It follows the same Oceans plot and formula, nothing new here, except its better. Not just for the fashion porn, or the all female cast, but because of the way the movie moved. It flowed better than ... READ the POST

The Incredibles 2: Movie Review

After 14 years, the Incredibles picked up where it left off. We took all our kids--aged 10 to 15 to see the movie, and even the 15-year-old had fun. In spite of optimism of the last movie, that the Parr family can now reclaim their place in society as proper superheroes, they find themselves back ... READ the POST

Happy Father’s Day (To Some)

I got lucky, like incredibly lucky, in the father and husband department. Aside from my children, one of the most defining relationship I have is with my father. This is not a slight against my mother, whose love and light personified (I kid you not, my mother is an absolute angel) but there's a ... READ the POST

Cockamine “Cocky” Lawsuit Gets Cockblocked

I'm not a lawyer in real life. I do play one online so this means I know everything, and I'm always right. I'm going to attempt to make sense of all of this cockamamie issues of trademark and half-cocked lawsuit. If you're an author and you haven't heard of #cockygate then you need to examine ... READ the POST

The Americans Are No Longer Americans

After six seasons, The Americans, one of the most underrated shows on television, closed out the series. I've followed this show for a few years now, getting hooked with the frenetic, albeit sloppy first episode while the song Tusk played in the background. There were several things that ... READ the POST

A Dick Move: Trademark on “Cocky”

I have been fascinated, amused, worried, and angry over the continuing #cockygate saga. It basically boils down to this: author Faleena Hopkins successfully trademarked the word "cocky". She has written a series of books (seventeen as of today) that involves a fictional family called the Cocker ... READ the POST

Mother’s Day 2018 Edition

I've been a mother for a good fourteen years now. So I'm currently in the midst of parenting a teen--someone send wine. But it isn't as bad as I expected. I suspect I was far more work than my oldest (my poor mother). Aside from the push back, a natural consequence of someone trying to forge his own ... READ the POST

Authors Behaving Badly: Terry Goodkind Edition

Like many authors before him, Terry Goodkind found himself in a media sh*t storm of his own making when he posted on his Facebook page that the cover to his latest release Shroud of Eternity is "laughably bad," and urged his followers to "Tell us what you think of the cover." Of course, ... READ the POST