This is something I wonder about a lot: what are people's favorite ways to watch things socially? If I sit down with friends and we're like 'let's watch a thing!' my inclination is always to suggest something that I've seen that other people in the group haven't, because I really enjoy watching people watch things for the first time while staring ( Read more... )

Today I reread Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard!

(I got through most of it while waiting for the bus to get from Brooklyn to Manhattan, which should tell you what you need to know about NYC public transit right now.)

BUT IT WAS OKAY BECAUSE I REALLY LOVE THE PERILOUS GARD. This was an incredibly formative book for me. It's a Tudor-era ( Read more... )

The back cover of Marie Lu's Legend informed me that the author "was first inspired to write Legend while watching Les Miserables one afternoon, and wondered how the relationship between a famous criminal vs. a prodigious detective might translate into a more modern story ( Read more... )

A couple years ago schiarire recommended me Susan Choi's The Foreign Student, which both she and I really liked, but Ji bounced hard off Susan Choi's other books.

"But The Foreign Student was so good!" I said. "And the one about Patti Hearst actually sounded pretty interesting ( Read more... )

A rough transcription of a conversation that happened last week in California:

bookelfe: I think as a follow-up to The Borgias there needs to be a terrible sleazy Showtime series about the Romantics! It would be kind of like this comic! Seriously, I have been waiting for this for years.
pseudo_tsuga: Well, I don't know about that, but I did find an ARC recently of ( Read more... )

Last time, the polls went to Sachiko, who finally pulled out a win with her fabulous array of feathers, sparkles and polka dots:


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Okay, I am going to do my best to remain straightfaced and unspoilery for the rest of the costume poll, but let me just say upfront and get it out of the way: THIS EPISODE WAS REALLY HARD TO DO.

But first let's go back to the joy of last week's victor:


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Last time the polls were tied nearly neck-and-neck between Cha Song Joo and . . . Cha Song Joo! Shocking everyone, Cha Song Joo ended up the victor with this demonstration of BAMFitude:


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Last episode Se Gi revealed that his relatively drab showing over the past few episodes was all saving up for . . . THE NEON FLORAL HAT.


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It's been a while since we had one of these, but don't worry: the show has been saving up some awesome in anticipation. >:D

Last time, Cha Song Joo cleaned up for the third time in a row with this amazingly dramatic ensemble:


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