Catching up in the form of headlines and blurbs.

MOVIE SCIENCE!
I should write something about Prometheus, but I feel like everyone else has beaten it to death already, and I kind of don't like the religious discussions that have cropped up around it. I liked it a lot, will probably see it again, but it had issues (wtf, self-administered ( Read more... )

Not to be maudlin, but there was a time when this news would have been all up on my flist as soon as word of it was breathed. I'm sure most of you have seen this, but I have to put it here for posterity.

RELEASE INFO AND BLURB FOR JKR'S NEW BOOKI hope none of you consider titles a spoiler. If you don't feel like following the link, here's the ( Read more... )

We need to talk about Game of Thrones, y’all. I picked this thing up LAST JULY, got 200 pages, and put it down. Picked it back up around November, started over because I’d forgotten most of it, got a smidge further, only to stall out again around the holidays ( Read more... )

I don't know how many of you still read Mark Reads, but he started The Hobbit yesterday and will be going through Lord of the Rings after. He's even more uninformed about The Hobbit than he was about HP, though I suspect he knows a little about LOTR since he hinted at telling everyone what he knew once he started that book ( Read more... )

Saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes today, which was way more awesome than I expected it to be. One thing I didn't like was ( SPOILER )

It's been a pretty long time since we heard anything from The Lady about how her post-Potter writing was coming along, but LOOKEE HERE! (Don't get too excited; it's not news about an actual book - yet; it just sounds like there's at least *something* that's tantalizingly close to seeing the light of day.)

WANT.

Have any of you read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins? Perhaps impatiently awaiting the next installment, Catching Fire? Want someone to gab about it with? :D

( Some comments, not really spoilery. )

Do any of you know anything about Naomi Novik's "Temeraire" series (His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, and The Black Powder - and I assume from the link below that this is an unfinished series)?

Peter Jackson has apparently acquired the rights to these books, though he hasn't decided whether he's going to film them or not. I just wondered if ( Read more... )

After seeing the Leaky article about the new Alan Rickman Celebrity READ poster now available at the ALA online store, I decided to poke around and see what their other posters looked like. I fondly remembered seeing the likes of Patrick Stewart, Mel Gibson, and my former TV boyfriend Andrew Shue (Melrose Place, for those of you who don't remember ( Read more... )

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